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
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
The State Journal hired Roundy as a daily columnist in 1924, and let his murderous English go unarrested.
From Time Magazine Archive
He surmised that I was affected: and became himself still more so, forgot himself, and with the still unarrested fingers of his left hand continued to tap too vigorously on the table.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
In 1850 the Democrats, who had before then elected a few governors and United States senators, secured control of the entire administration—a control unarrested, except in 1863, until the last decade of the 19th century.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
