How to Use internment in a Sentence

internment

noun
  • After the war, most of the locals were placed in internment camps.
    — Monica Miller, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
  • From there, a hearse brings the coffin to Windsor for internment.
    — Time, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The rest of the family was shipped off to an internment camp in Poston, Ariz., during the war.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
  • Of the thousands of internment camps the Nazis constructed, Terezin was unique.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Mel and Josephine have been married 61 years, but this is the first time Josephine has been in Arkansas since her internment.
    — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2023
  • In 1941, the Kaminskys were arrested and sent to Drancy, an internment camp near Paris that was a way station to the death camps.
    — Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • In 1941, the Kaminskys were arrested and sent to Drancy, an internment camp near Paris that was a way station to the death camps.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • When his father, James, was 7 and living in Washington, Tad told me, he was sent to an internment camp.
    — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Later, Takei's family was shipped by train to an internment camp in Arkansas, one of 10 such camps in the U.S.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
  • This is not the first time the former commander-in-chief has called for the internment of the homeless as a means of solving a problem plaguing cities across the country.
    — Matthew Medsger Boston Herald (tns), al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Japan was thought of as the enemy, with internment camps and everything.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The prisoners of war were then transported to places of internment in a manner that raised concerns.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Bolton also claimed that Trump had encouraged Xi to go ahead with building Uyghur internment camps in Xinjiang.
    — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
  • That there were politicians making concerted efforts to lock them up in internment camps.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Tamaki’s parents – natives of the San Francisco Bay Area – were also in an internment camp.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 18 June 2023
  • The Indigenous Aleuts were forcibly evacuated by the government and shipped to internment camps.
    — Susan Portnoy, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In the finale, Daniel’s mother pulls out a necklace Mr. Miyagi gave her that belonged to his mother and, later, his wife, who died in a Japanese internment camp.
    — Skyler Trepel, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The pastor also compared how transgenders were treated in the U.S. to the Holocaust and Japanese internment camps later on in the message.
    — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • There are exhibits on the Aleutian campaign, as well as a timeline showing the evacuation and internment of the Unangan people.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
  • Many Witnesses fled to neighboring Mozambique, where they were held in internment camps.
    — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
  • It was built in 1990 to honor those whose lives were uprooted during the era of Japanese American internment camps.
    — Alina Polishuk, AFAR Media, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The park also has a new campground and trails for hiking, mountain biking, and off-roading—and preserves the historic site of a former Japanese internment camp.
    — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The film also recounts how his father paved the way in making films about the Japanese internment camp experience.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • To Shibutani, who had spent the war imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in California, rumor was more of a verb than a noun, a collective process of making sense of the world.
    — science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The heroism of the lone hero in unspoiled wilderness is replaced by the sense of a place marked by absence: the expulsion and internment of Native Americans; the exclusion of would-be immigrants.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • His father, with his parents and siblings, had been confined to Japanese internment camps.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2022
  • China has built mass internment camps in the Xinjiang province, where most Uyghurs live, and more than a million Uyghurs (as well as other religious minorities) have been detained in the last few years.
    — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • The government would need to build large internment camps, and, in the event that Congress refused to appropriate the money required, the President would have to divert funds from the military.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The book’s horrors—climate catastrophe, internment camps, genocidal wars, high-tech surveillance—are too familiar to serve as prophecy.
    — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Human rights groups say Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities have faced a raft of human rights abuses in the region, including being placed in mass internment camps.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025

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