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
“We shined shoes, cleaned car windows, sold cigarettes — whatever we needed to do to survive,” recalled Ortega, sitting outside the government compound that housed the ill-fated immigration holding pen.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2023
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
I used to think of the campus as a haven, but now I saw it as a holding pen where my brother would stay until he turned eighteen or could find another family.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
