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Example sentences for "arrest"

Lexicographically close words:
arrearages; arrears; arreigned; arrer; arrers; arrestation; arreste; arrested; arrester; arresters
  1. Such an intimacy cannot be idle or stagnant; it cannot arrest its instinctive development.

  2. Their receptivity is a fixed quantity, determined by the character imposed upon them at creation, and bound to come to an abrupt arrest at some precise point[56].

  3. It is this point of arrest which is reached and revealed by the process of Evolution, under the pressure of Natural Selection.

  4. There we watch the reasons disclosing themselves why that simple faith could not abide in arrest at its first moment; why it must open a new career, with new duties, and new responsibilities, and new problems.

  5. Mental and moral pain arrest the issues of ignorant or evil courses before it is too late.

  6. If you are in business, some one will arrest you, and you will have great difficulty in settling the matter.

  7. This nefarious transaction induced Mr. Folger to procure the arrest of Matthias, firmly convinced, at this melancholy stage, that he was a base impostor.

  8. The Spanish kings commision for the generall imbargment or arrest of the English, &c.

  9. He and his followers now rebounded in the direction of Heilbron, where on the 18th he endeavoured to arrest the entry of Lord Methuen and a large convoy which he was escorting.

  10. He procured the arrest of the fugitives, and after a short confinement on the spot, they were conveyed to the New Prisons in Rome (Carceri Nuove) and tried on the charge of adultery.

  11. However, something stranger than arrest for bigamy happened to him.

  12. He had seen in a paper, which was otherwise chiefly occupied with moles and experts, a cautious statement that the police had collected the necessary primâ facie evidence of bigamy, and that his arrest was imminent.

  13. You would have me believe that the two for whose arrest I hold a warrant are not here.

  14. Things then were bad enough, for we offered resistance, and, I am sorry to say, damaged the face of the officer who was foolish enough to attempt to arrest us.

  15. It may at the same time be to some extent explained by arrest of development or atavism leading to the deficiency of beard which in its fully developed form marks, with few exceptions, only the highest human races.

  16. In the criminal, we may often take it, there is an arrest of development.

  17. This is not atavism, though it may be the outcome of atavism, or arrest of development.

  18. It may signify precocious union of the two parts of the frontal bone with consequent arrest of brain development.

  19. That is a pickpocket's history of his arrest as narrated to Mr. Davitt.

  20. There is evidently arrest of development at a very early age, probably a precocious union of the cranial bones.

  21. I shall go down with Hill to the Italian quarter, find the man whose photograph we have got, and arrest him on the charge of murder.

  22. His surprise expressed itself in the direct question which he shot at the detective: "I take it you are here to arrest them, then?

  23. I've a warrant here to arrest you on a charge of forgery.

  24. This plan having been settled upon, it became necessary to consider how the arrest should be made.

  25. Moreover, the deputy, knowing the danger of making an arrest in the mountain districts, could not be got to go up alone.

  26. The futility of trying to "smash the Labor unions" or to arrest the progress of the Labor movement is now sufficiently clear.

  27. As well try to smash a forty mile wide Alaskan glacier or arrest its onward march to the sea.

  28. I now call on you to arrest him, or, if official process is needed, to direct me to the proper authority.

  29. I have no wish to traduce Anatole Labergerie," said Curtis, "but I am quite sure that the man under arrest is the driver of the car in which the Hungarians made off.

  30. At present I fail to see what bearing they have on the discussion, unless, indeed, you mean to arrest Curtis immediately on a charge which I am prepared to formulate.

  31. I am prepared to arrest the man on Mr. Curtis's evidence, because I couldn't have better testimony than that of the chief witness.

  32. I am not saying too much when I tell you that some men, in my shoes, would arrest you forthwith.

  33. I do hope most sincerely that I may arrest those infernal Hungarians to-night.

  34. On your release you consorted with anarchists in Paris, and, to escape arrest as a suspect after a dynamite outrage on the Grand Boulevard, you emigrated to America.

  35. This guard ought not to arrest citizens for disorder or minor crimes.

  36. Any person who transmits money south is liable to arrest and trial for aiding and abetting the enemy; but I do not think it our business to collect debts other than rents.

  37. No agent can collect and remit money south without subjecting himself to arrest and trial for aiding and abetting the public enemy.

  38. Secondary hemorrhage ensued, and the usual means failed to arrest it.

  39. Compression in the wound, which failed previously, now served to arrest the hemorrhage, and cure followed.

  40. One whole chapter is taken up with an interesting account of the arrest of Aaron Burr in Alabama in 1807; and the exciting controversies between Georgia, the Federal Government, Spain, and the Creek Indians, are treated at length.

  41. Not one of the men under arrest would have known how to use a revolver if it had been placed in his hands.

  42. An arrest for debt; whence a bum bailiff is called a shoulder-clapper.

  43. I'll roast the dab; I'll arrest the rascal.

  44. These words being interpreted to him, the first thing he did was to arrest me again, but luckily not by the same hand.

  45. If these two lines are not enough, I place two rulers vertically upon the paper, which arrest the deviations of the hand absolutely.

  46. He still urgently recommended the arrest of the emigrants, the stopping of the presses of the royalist journals, which he said were sold to England and Austria, the suppression of the Clichy Club.

  47. I reprimanded him for having smiled derisively at the ill humour of the persons appointed to arrest him.

  48. Bonaparte has often told me he had no doubt from the time of his arrival that General Clarke was charged with a secret mission to act as a spy upon him, and even to arrest him if an opportunity offered for so doing without danger.

  49. Bonaparte, after having received the deputation at Mestre, told them that in order to obtain satisfaction, for the assassination of his brethren is arms, he wished the Great Council to arrest the inquisitors.

  50. The people at first heard of the arrest of the deputies with indifference.

  51. Doubtless his schoolmates knew all about it by this time; they had heard of his arrest and imprisonment in the lockup, and they had told one another what they thought of it.

  52. If you can arrest me for stealing from you something you'd stolen before, why then I shall say right off I did it.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abduction; absorb; access; apoplexy; apprehend; apprehension; arrest; attack; backwater; bell; bit; block; blockade; brake; bridle; bust; capture; catch; chain; charm; check; checkmate; chock; clog; closure; collar; confine; constrain; constraint; constriction; contain; control; convulsion; cool; coup; cramp; curb; curtail; curtailment; cutoff; dam; damp; dampen; damper; deadlock; deceleration; delay; detain; detention; drag; dragnet; eclampsia; enchant; end; ending; engage; engross; enjoin; enthrall; epilepsy; exercise; fascinate; fetter; fit; fixation; freeze; frenzy; frustrate; get; govern; grab; grip; guard; gun; halt; hampering; hinder; hindrance; hold; holdup; hypnotize; ictus; immerse; impede; impediment; inhibit; inhibition; injunction; intercept; interdict; interfere; interference; intermeddle; intermit; interrupt; interruption; intervene; involve; keep; kidnapping; lag; let; lockjaw; lockout; meddle; mesmerize; moderate; monopolize; monopoly; net; netting; nick; nip; obsess; obstruct; obstruction; occlusion; occupy; oppose; opposition; paroxysm; pick; pinch; prehension; preoccupy; prevent; prevention; prohibit; prohibition; protection; pull; rationing; reef; refrain; rein; relax; repress; repression; resist; resistance; restrain; restraint; restriction; retard; retardation; retrench; retrenchment; seize; seizure; setback; shackle; slacken; slackening; slow; slowdown; snatch; snub; spasm; spoke; squeeze; stalemate; stall; stanch; stand; standstill; stay; stem; stop; stoppage; straiten; stranglehold; stricture; strike; stroke; stunt; suppress; suppression; suspend; tetanus; throes; thrombosis; throttle; trammel; visitation; withhold


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arrest thee; arrested development