internment
an act or instance of interning, or confining a person or ship to prescribed limits during wartime: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
the state of being interned; confinement.
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How to use internment in a sentence
When his father, James, was 7 and living in Washington, Tad told me, he was sent to an internment camp.
In February of 1942, influential writer Walter Lippman amplified Knox’s warnings of a “fifth column” comprised of immigrants and their descendants, and criticized Washington for hesitating to impose “mass internment” of these “enemy aliens.”
How Eleanor Roosevelt Worked to Stop Her Husband Approving Japanese Internment Camps During World War II | Francine Uenuma | February 18, 2022 | Time“Clark and Division,” by Naomi HiraharaIt’s 1944 and Rose Ito is about to be reunited with her family after their release from an internment camp in California when she is run over by a subway train in Chicago and dies.
Best thriller and mystery books of 2021 | Maureen Corrigan, Richard Lipez | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostThe Marcoses have been friendly with the Dutertes in two previous elections, and it was Duterte who gave the remains of the disgraced dictator a hero’s internment in 2016.
The Philippine Elections Will Be a Test of Rodrigo Duterte's Legacy | Chad de Guzman | October 13, 2021 | TimeThere lie Eddie Lockard and Reuben Everett, the only massacre victims whose graves were marked — likely because they were buried after their families were released from internment sites.
To find answers about the 1921 race massacre, Tulsa digs up its painful past | Helen Thompson | May 27, 2021 | Science News
What did you learn from your five-year internment in Vietnam?
In the episode “internment,” he reminds Rick of the dangers of slipping into darkness.
The Walking Dead’s Luke Skywalker: Rick Grimes Is the Perfect Modern-Day Mythical Hero | Regina Lizik | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the second remark came during the Japanese internment conversation.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, she was among the tens of thousands Japanese-Americans dispatched to internment camps.
Remembering Yuri Kochiyama, Civil Rights Activist and Malcolm X Ally | Herb Boyd | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was finally released in 2004, after almost 40 hellish years of brutal internment.
We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night | Nathan Bradley Bethea | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNone need our help more than the officers and men of those internment camps.
The Romance of the Red Triangle | Arthur Keysall YappTo avoid the dreaded internment camp he had successfully passed as a Luxemburger.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit RooseveltA once-loved prince of German blood had been frozen out of the navy, and the internment camps were growing like boom towns.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert HughesEverywhere is dead-lines and permissions and internment camps and persecutions, and all who are not in prison are afraid.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert HughesWell, amongst these liberated captives was one who told a sad tale of starvation at his internment camp.
Observations of an Orderly | Ward Muir
British Dictionary definitions for internment
/ (ɪnˈtɜːnmənt) /
the act of interning or state of being interned, esp of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects
(as modifier): an internment camp
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