My stock amounted to twelve guineas; and I foresaw that should I be stripped of the whole sum, I could not travel without discovering who I was, and consequently running the risk of being detected by my pursuer.
We also hear that the worst part of the offence {18} consists in being detected, and that a successful thief is admired rather than disapproved of.
At Parramatta some people were taken up and punished, on being detected in issuing to themselves from the stores, where they were employed, a greater proportion of provisions than the ration.
A convict well known in this settlement, Benjamin Ingraham, being detected in the act of housebreaking, put an end to his own existence by hanging himself, thus terminating by his own hand a life of wretchedness and villany.
The keeper opposed him, several times mentioned Mr. Clifton as an unconquerable objection, and urged the danger of being detected; for he did not seem to revolt at the fact.
Good deeds are so uncommon, and so much the cause of surprise, that virtue blushes at being detected almost as deeply as vice.
I laugh at their counterplots, and wish I had nothing more to disturb me than the fear of being detected by any exertion of their cunning, even though my kind sister be appointed their commander in chief.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being detected" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
