How to use "custody" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "custody" in popular movie and book plots

  • Preston also resigns but, through Irvine, finds lucrative private-sector employment that enables him to obtain full custody of his son.  - The Fourth Protocol
  • He gets custody of Annie and influences her to disdain Effi.  - Effi Briest
  • Sinbad decides to retain custody of the lamp until Parisa is turned back to normal.  - The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
  • Gregson has him in custody on this circumstantial evidence.  - A Study in Scarlet
  • The survivors were taken into custody and the dead buried near Holbeche.  - Robert Catesby
  • The double funeral of Katherine and Robert is attended by the President of the United States, who now has custody of a smiling Damien.  - The Omen
  • Wade vows to get a lawyer to help gain custody of his daughter.  - Affliction (film)
  • Stiva gets the post he desired so much, and Karenin takes custody of Vronsky and Anna's baby, Anna.  - Anna Karenina
  • After escaping from the custody of MI6, he discovers that he is in Hong Kong, where he learns from a Chinese agent that Zao is in Cuba.  - Die Another Day
  • After being held in the police station a short time, he is released into the custody of a mr Jonathan Wellington.  - Back There
  • He is taken into custody and questioned by the American base commander, General Harper, and his provost marshal, Major Wilson.  - The Last Flight (The Twilight Zone)
  • Charlie decides to attempt to gain custody of his brother in order to get control of the money.  - Rain Man
  • Fifteen months after she walked out, Joanna returns to New York to claim Billy, and a custody battle ensues.  - Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Outraged, Michael takes custody of the children and banishes Kay from the family.  - The Godfather Part II
  • Ugarte dies in custody without revealing that he entrusted the letters to Rick.  - Casablanca (film)
  • While in custody at the Fairmont Hotel, Mason flees.  - The Rock (film)

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