detain
verb (used with object)
to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
undetained
-
a word derived from
detain.
Example Sentences
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Bazoum and his undetained allies want regional partners, the U.S. and others to intervene.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
This might have seemed but the sport of chance had it not rested there, though undetained, and refused to part even when flight was free.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
It was not the hour when the piazzas were very full, and she slipped into the dim hotel corridor undetected, or at least undetained.
From April Hopes by Howells, William Dean
He moved almost without hindrance and undetained by formalities freely in and out of England, France, Holland, occupied Belgium and France, and Germany itself, with person and traveling bags unexamined.
From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
Very strangely the thought of Eustace never came to her, or coming, but flitted unrecorded and undetained across the surface of her mind.
From Greatheart by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
