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internment
noun as in captivity
noun as in confinement
noun as in detention
Example Sentences
Furutani said he didn’t even know there had been internment camps until he went to college.
Rounding them by the millions and dumping them in internment camps would bring our economy to its knees.
If elected, he also promised a militarized campaign of deportation that would entail arresting and detaining millions of people in internment camps.
During the interview, Trump also likened the detention of those charged with storming the Capitol to the US internment of Japanese Americans in World War Two.
The Alien and Sedition Acts grant widespread powers to the president during wartime and were famously used to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War 2.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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