arrest
Example Sentences
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The banquet will also see the King's first speech since the arrest of his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
From BBC
Giving evidence Supt Simon Allardice rejected much of this but conceded there was opportunity for a fuller briefing after Calocane was arrested but a high alert level was still in force.
From BBC
His face had an arresting stillness, and a strength that made Torak think of carved sandstone.
From Literature
That case involved two Belgian teenagers, who were arrested in possession of nearly 5,000 ants, mostly stored in test tubes.
From Barron's
“Mankind from the view of a biologist,” he writes, “is an animal species in a state of arrested differentiation and possible readmixture.”
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