Used in a Sentence

arrests

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for arrests.

Editorial note

If the evidence bar is so high, why exactly have there never been any arrests made using the data?

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of arrests gathered in one view.

noun

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

noun

A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.

noun

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for arrests.

noun

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

noun

A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.

noun

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

noun

A device to physically arrest motion.

Example sentences

1

If the evidence bar is so high, why exactly have there never been any arrests made using the data?

2

That seems to be missing a comparison with dealing rates - aren't arrests mostly targeting dealers rather than users?

3

If cops want to make arrests, they should make sure their camera is working.

4

People are paying hundreds of dollars in bitcoins to these ransomwares for almost two years now, yet there have been zero arrests.

5

If they didn't care about being insulted, they wouldn't be making the arrests.

6

Edit 2: The arrests in Florida were tied to JP Morgan hack.

7

Around the town, there were huge numbers of police (especially compared to the small population of the town) all seemingly trolling for petty drug arrests.

8

That is not the same as never having arrests.

9

I'm also pretty sure that in many jurisdictions, if you fight a cop over an illegal arrests, you are still guilty of assaulting an officer.

10

You give the Government wayyyy too much credit if you think it can go from leaked exploit to arrests generated from said leaked exploit within a two week period.

11

But when kids do this in Minecraft or I hunt and gatherer in a Bethesda Softworks game, no one arrests me even if I get caught.

12

> The arrests come after a two-year FBI undercover operation that infiltrated the forum, said FBI Special Agent in Charge Scott S.

Quote examples

1

Range, can do house search or arrests at any time even when he is “halting”.

2

There have been plenty of domestic arrests but they don't typically fall under the "terrorism" scope because of the nature of the act.

3

The targets of the arrests had not been connected to any serious crimes, and some of the city’s residents saw the move as questionable." "'Crazy, right?' Torres later said.

4

I had to ask him if he wouldn't mind getting off the phone to talk to me." Sounds like time for one of those discretionary arrests for a traffic violation." Just wow.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use arrests in a sentence?

If the evidence bar is so high, why exactly have there never been any arrests made using the data?

What does arrests mean?

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

What part of speech is arrests?

arrests is commonly used as noun.