Arrest in a sentence as a noun

Three days later, police come to your door and arrest you.

It is essentially a bench warrant for your arrest.

Is this arrest the culmination of those efforts?

A lot of people assume that the police are required to read a suspect his rights when he is arrested.

On the night of the arrestwithout an arrest warrantSerge waived his right to call a lawyer.

A neighbor pulls you aside, and he quickly tells you they were arrested three weeks ago and haven't been seen since.

To arrest a coder because someone else was using his software illegally?

It's like saying about Rodney King, "well, our police are brutal, but after all he was speeding and resisting arrest.

Additionally her mom was arrested since they noticed that she had a warrant out for her arrest so they just took care of that one as well.

When entering the country, the passport clerk has exactly two options: let me in, or call the police and get me arrested on the spot.

Arrest in a sentence as a verb

After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said.

Our answer to \nthe question of what police must do before searching a cell \nphone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple— \nget a warrant.

[...] Jiang had not had clearance to such projects at Langley as an employee of the National Institute of Aerospace""A press release issued by Wolf after the arrest and copy of Jiang's arrest warrant have since disappeared off the the congressman's website.

I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country.

Because not reading someone under arrest the Miranda warning is constitutionally irrelevant in and of itself.

It includes violent arrest tactics; police are trained in "pain compliance" techniques, which include spraying pepper spray into protesters eyes, and forcing their eyes open to do so.

It includes charging activists with laws intended for violent terrorists, so that arrest is no longer a minor inconvenience, but a life-altering event.

During that time, the female arresting officer would periodically come by to taunt me, and tell me that I shouldn't have questioned her, and then threw a huge tantrum when I requested not to be touched by her for fingerprinting.

As our office handed down arrest records and probation terms for riding dirt bikes in the street, cutting through a neighbor’s yard, hosting loud parties, fighting, or smoking weed – shenanigans that had rarely earned my own classmates anything more than raised eyebrows and scoldingsWhether these crimes deserve any police attention is something that could be discussed, but surely we can agree that prosecuting black kids but not white kids is something that drives inequality in society?

Arrest definitions

noun

the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

See also: apprehension catch collar pinch

noun

the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"

See also: check halt hitch stay stop stoppage

verb

take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

See also: collar nail apprehend

verb

hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"

See also: check stop contain

verb

attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"

See also: catch

verb

cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"

See also: halt hold