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
If you will allow me to make the remarks to which I just now alluded, possibly, by the time I have finished, you will apprehend some of my reasons.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh
Let us sum up the new movement so clearly that the dullest will apprehend.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
Our assistants will apprehend that we are merely offering a suggestion or two, which we hope they will follow up by exploring the authorities.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
