apprehending
Example Sentences
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The viral photograph of federal authorities apprehending little Liam Conejo Ramos in his bunny ear beanie and Spider-Man backpack stunned viewers across the country, filling them with horror and rage.
From Salon • Mar. 2, 2026
“If the U.S. government is unilaterally going into a sovereign country and apprehending somebody, you can understand the concern that sovereign entity might have,” Colombo told reporters outside the courthouse on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Gaitok will show his girlfriend, Mook, that his compassion and preference for care over violence will not stand in his way in apprehending the robbers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
It’s rarely found, by contrast, by border agents apprehending migrants who are attempting to enter the country undetected through the desert.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025
I took these techniques, these ways of seeing and feeling, and twisted them, bent them, adapted them, until they became my ways of apprehending the locked-in life of the Black Belt areas.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
