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How to use apprehend in a sentence

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But the changes are so subtle that they are difficult to apprehend and you cannot be certain that this is the case.
Eventually, news reached the Captain, who dispatched a gunnery sergeant and a squad of Marines with non-defective handcuffs to apprehend her.
What would happen next is that the matter, as we apprehend it, would go back to the Minister for redetermination, according to law.
Most were not sure what to do, and called for keepers or guards to apprehend her.
The villains are stock cardboard characters who practically apprehend themselves.
Because they did not arrive in Calcutta as scheduled there is some reason to apprehend that the Mother has secretted the Children.
We are also certain that the police will apprehend the criminal who carried out this cowardly deed.
In most cases, a censor and a chiliarch or centurion from the Imperial Guard were ordered to jointly oversee campaigns to apprehend brigands.
The Canada goose was spotted on CCTV cameras and four security officers, used to collaring shoplifters, were sent to apprehend it.
People sentiently and sensorily apprehend culture rather than merely think it or act it.
People sentiently and sensorily apprehend culture rather than merely thinking it or acting it.
Still, he was about to apprehend a fugitive who'd eluded the police for eleven years.
Historians, in other words, need to apprehend and to understand the rough as well as the respectable manhood of American workers.
These pleasures may help us to apprehend and understand such horrors, but they can only do so if they are entertaining.
There would be no time to turn away, no time to act, yet there would be time to perceive and apprehend.
It took her a few moments to apprehend she wasn't lying on the ground, but still on her feet thanks to Adrian's support.
Research has shown that a policeman plodding the streets is likely to apprehend someone committing a crime only once every 8 years.
Fail to visit the sick, and you fail to apprehend your own journey from birth to death.
Consider for a moment how few sports allow us to apprehend the world outside our doors.
Knowing, by contrast, refers to mental states' faculty to perceive or apprehend what appears.
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For a long time, an organized band of thieves had been stealing stock in the Ozark range, baffling all efforts to apprehend them.
Her doubts of the nature of what she had to apprehend, were as full of perplexity as of inquietude.
Afterwards his master sought to apprehend him and send him off to Jamaica, for sale.
A number of us were doing our best to apprehend the summation of all this flood of change.
But to understand the Magyar music you must apprehend the Magyar's character.
We can apprehend the eternal essence of God because the temporality of our thought is accidental to its meaning.
Men who miscalculate the future usually do so because they fail to apprehend the present facts.
It cannot, cannot be, that I should have cause to apprehend him to be so ungenerous, so bad a man.
And this is the way a large number of world-shaking passions begin, since at first we seldom apprehend our potentiality.
Nor let any one apprehend that this subject can ever become trite and vulgar.
Manifest no distrust, or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend.
If it be for what I apprehend it to be, life will not be supportable upon the terms.
Do we ever apprehend objects by the light of God without apprehending the light which renders them apprehensible?
I should apprehend this bog to be among the most improvable in the country.
I don't apprehend that a young nobleman ever broke his heart after his tutor.
We cannot apprehend an object as sublime while we apprehend it as comparably, measurably, or finitely great.
But pray, Sir, interrupting him, how came you to apprehend that I should revoke my intention?
I apprehend he was riled at the little al-ter-cation we had just before you came on board.
Alas, though I myself should be buried in the ruin, why should I apprehend, or why lament it?
For many things there be, which we must conceit and apprehend, as though we had had to do with an antagonist at the palestra.
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