apprehend
verb (used with object)
to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority.
will apprehend
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future tenseof apprehend.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“If you come here illegally, we will apprehend you and we will send you back across the border from which you came,” Mr. Christie said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
The Administration estimates that the Administration will apprehend as many as 90,000 unaccompanied minors at the border by the end of September.
From Time ● Jul. 18, 2014
It will not be long before they will be here that will apprehend me, and carry me away into Tribulation.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
Whoever will apprehend the said fellow and take him to the Warden of the Workhouse, or to the subscriber, at No. 95 Broadstreet, shall receive a handsome reward.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various
But I hope he will apprehend that impossibility in me, and finde me here, where he shall also finde as much readinesse to serve him, as at Polesworth.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
