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
The face of a man chasing an illusive but not uncapturable dream.
From Hunter Patrol by H. Beam Piper
The old-fashioned high-falutin' phrase is the best description I can give of the elusive uncapturable nature of this wife of mine.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
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
