CUSTODY in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for CUSTODY, such as:

1. He is in custody awaiting trial.
2. She was held in custody pending trial.
3. He was kept in custody for his own safety.
4. He intends to seek custody of the children.
5. The bank provides safe custody for valuables.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUSTODY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
custody
 n.  keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security
Classic Sentence:
1  I see him now, going away in custody, despised by the congregation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
2  But I remarked that the Old Soldier took him into custody directly, for her partner; and instructed him, as the first preliminary of initiation, to give her all the silver he had in his pocket.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
3  That when Miss Murdstone took her into custody and led her away, she smiled and gave me her delicious hand.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
4  But, his joy received a sudden check; for within five minutes, he returned in the custody of a sheriff 's officer, informing us, in a flood of tears, that all was lost.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
5  That evening Jefferson Hope was taken into custody, and not being able to find sureties, was detained for some weeks.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  Waldemar Fitzurse hastened to reply, that Ivanhoe was already removed from the lists, and in the custody of his friends.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  He made a sweeping bow to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the detective.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
8  I called in the inspector and gave him into custody.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
9  Thus, then, the young men made no attempt at resistance, but blindly and confidingly surrendered themselves into the care and custody of their conductors.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
10  He walked to an angle of the bastion, and beheld the scout advancing, under the custody of a French officer, to the body of the fort.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
11  It has now come to my knowledge that you lent him your carriage for his removal from town, and that you have even accepted papers from him for safe custody.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The bank provides safe custody for valuables.
2  The parents were locked in a bitter battle for custody.
3  Allen is fighting a bitter custody battle over his three children.
4  He is in custody awaiting trial.
5  The divorce court awarded custody to the child's mother.
6  The court awarded/granted/gave custody of the child to the father.
7  The families of people who die in custody are in a legal no-man's-land when they try to discover what went wrong.
8  If valuables are placed in the safe, the hotel is responsible for their safe custody.
9  He was kept in custody for his own safety.
10  He intends to seek custody of the children.
11  Carter was remanded in custody for seven days.
12  She was held in custody pending trial.
13  As he was charged for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, detectives arrived at the house, taking him into custody at 5.45 p.m.
14  The hero is a playful, whimsical man who takes a notion to dress up as a woman so that he can look after his children, who are in the custody of his ex-wife.
15  There were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.