holding pen

Example Sentences

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The firm began this year by forcing clients into a holding pen that prevented them from redeeming any money until 2026 and limiting withdrawals thereafter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

Except the kitchen at 221B is… well, it’s not a kitchen so much as a crime-scene-adjacent holding pen.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025

By the ’60s, though, the Lorton complex had become overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded: a holding pen for an ever-surging inmate population numbering 10,000.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2022

For many patients, it felt like they were stuck in a holding pen, often without much hope of being released.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2022

But as I came out from my holding pen it was possible that no generation other than my brother’s was as well disposed to accept me.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides