WordNet
n. a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily [syn: bullpen, detention centre]
Usage examples of "detention cell".
Steej wanted very much to get him back in a detention cell, so he could give the human a taste of what he had doled out.
They chase to her to a detention cell, where a holo recording of Vader is waiting for them.
He found himself in a spacious room, some kind of laboratory or analysis center, not his detention cell on the Gorgon.
Lorelei remains in her detention cell, unable to speak directly with anyone.
It did rather put paid to Vorpatril's paranoid fear that Corbeau had turned traitor, volunteering for this as a way to get a free ride out of his quaddie detention cell and his dilemmas.
Commander Nyder, take the Doctor's two friends to the detention cell.
Only when he smiled did she see again the flustered, sandy-haired farmboy who'd blasted his way into the detention cell on the Death Star in his borrowed shining white armor and said Oh .
He went into the bath, bathed and felt better, clean of the memory of the detention cell, wrapped himself in the soft robe Damon had lent him, and came out to the aroma of supper cooking.
Troy huddled on his bunk inside the detention cell until the elite guards finally brought him out of the gloomy underground decks after some unknown number of days.