arrest
verb (used with object)
to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody.
unarrested
-
a word derived from
arrest.
Example Sentences
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Still, history has shown that they are not the type to repeatedly break the law unobserved, undetected, unarrested.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2019
The State Journal hired Roundy as a daily columnist in 1924, and let his murderous English go unarrested.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon, one by one, the 980 Royalist youths who had stood ready to defend Editor Daudet filed out, were allowed to go unarrested.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the forgery was detected, and the young man under suspicion, how was it that he was still free, still unarrested?
From The Woman's Way by Garvice, Charles
In the meantime, the flames, unarrested, made rapid way, and communicating to the adjoining building, set it on fire.
From The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Headley, Joel Tyler
