apprehend
verb (used with object)
to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority.
was apprehending
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past progressiveof apprehend.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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As we drove, I gazed out the window at Fort Igloo, or the ruins thereof, and I was struck by the sense that I was apprehending at once the past and the future.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2020
When some one was apprehending the journey to Olympia, "Why are you afraid of the long distance?" he asked.
From The Memorabilia by Henry Graham Dakyns
Now as a matter of fact one part of my mind must have been ahead inventing this story, while the other part of the mind was apprehending it with astonishment and excitement.
From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
The tidings of this signal repulse of the enemy came most opportunely to Washington, when he was apprehending an attack upon New York.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
She was apprehending change, and she could think of no change but that call to leave her home and her native land which she so much dreaded.
From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
