Example sentences for: apprehend

How can you use “apprehend” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the absence of other federal law enforcement agencies--there was no FBI until 1908--the service over time took on new jobs: combating the terrorist acts of the Ku Klux Klan, which had sprung up in the Reconstruction South; conducting espionage during the Spanish-American War and World War I; investigating the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal; and helping to apprehend the gangster Al Capone for tax fraud.

  • Maybe this is where the bulk of cross-talk belongs, though it needs an audience to apprehend it correctly, which makes it also linked to dramatic irony.

  • Norman Schwarzkopf agreed on Meet the Press that invaders would never apprehend Saddam, but he still insisted that the United States "bomb him into submission."

  • The paper reports that Hun Sen promised the United Nations that he would help apprehend Khmer Rouge leaders and bring them before an international tribunal for crimes against humanity.

  • Like police officers, bounty hunters are authorized to use "all reasonable force " to apprehend skips.


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