internee
Example Sentences
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The internees were only allowed to exchange simple greetings with each other - a form of control, and a way of preventing "bad" girls influencing others.
From BBC
Taken to a Japanese internment camp at Sumatra, she and fellow internee Norah Chambers set up a vocal orchestra.
From BBC
He was transferred from an Immigration and Naturalization Service facility in Montana to the center for enemy alien internees in Louisiana.
From Los Angeles Times
Detained as they had been, the internees, Goodman found, had scarcely been enjoying the benefits of a “free society.”
From Washington Post
"There is an onus on the British government to identify and inform other internees whose internment may also have been unlawful," he said.
From BBC
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