Example sentences for: arrests

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

  • The arrests of Salameh, Abouhalima, and Ayyad led the FBI to the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, where a central figure was Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, an extremist Sunni Muslim cleric who had moved to the United States from Egypt in 1990.

  • The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post lead with the arrests of nearly 60 airport workers in Miami on charges related to drug and weapons trafficking (the other papers all front this story).

  • The Los Angeles Times leads with the latest in the city's mushrooming police scandal: The LAPD chief's call for the quick dismissal of the cases against 99 people in which the arrests were based on officers' documented illegal activity, ranging from lying to unprovoked shooting.

  • There are fascinating details from last week's American spy arrests on the Times front.

  • Indira Gandhi’s tendency toward tough authoritarianism was highlighted during the repressive state of emergency she declared in 1975, describing it as “disciplined democracy,” when she ordered mass arrests of opposition leaders who had charged her and her party with malpractice and corruption.


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