capture
verb (used with object)
to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize.
uncapturable
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a word derived from
capture.
Example Sentences
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“The American story is wild, uncapturable and discomfiting, and our fiction — our literature — is poised to challenge and deeply change us as it becomes ever more inclusive and ecocentric.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
There’s a touch of Wile E. Coyote in Doof’s endless -inators and more than a little Road Runner in his silent, uncapturable platypus foil.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2015
"I used to love haymaking," said Pauline, feeling a little wistful for some of those simple joys that now seemed uncapturable again.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
To-night these visions were uncapturable, and beyond the darkness they had forsaken stretched a terrifying void and beyond the void was nothing but light that seemed to have the power of thinking, "I am Truth!"
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
Besides, I saw from the expression on our leader's face that an uncapturable mustang was an object of interest for him.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Zane Grey
