Detain characteristics

Detain verb means to deprive of freedom, take into confinement.

Explanation:

If you detain someone, you are stopping him from doing something; you are forbidding him to move on. It also means to be late, to wait, to get stuck.

There are many examples where detain can be included. One of them could be:

Police detained him in the office. He was illegally selling food on the market.

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.