How to Use evade capture/arrest in a Sentence
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Gillespie was able to evade capture and is still considered to be at large.
— Laura A. Bischoff, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2023 -
The troopers and a K9 then attempted to detain Wing, who bit the dog in his efforts to evade arrest.
— Landon Mion, Fox News, 9 July 2023 -
Nell just wants to evade capture long enough to find an honest magistrate to clear her name.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024 -
In order to evade capture and stay alive, Chase is forced to confront his misdeeds and mistakes from his past life.
— Wilson Chapman, Variety, 16 May 2022 -
The longest Raminsky managed to evade capture was 10 days.
— Leo Sands, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023 -
The brown trout, known for its olive-brown scales and its ability to evade capture, is a fish-eating predator that was introduced to the state in the 1930s.
— Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2020 -
Cruz, who was attempting to evade arrest, shot the officer five times at close range.
— Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2022 -
He was spotted in Guatemala in 2017 and in Belize a year later but continued to evade capture.
— Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2022 -
Stoodley fled the scene and managed to evade arrest until Wednesday.
— Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 4 May 2023 -
Our forces believe there are more than 7,000 Islamic State fighters in Iraq who have been able to evade capture.
— Sirwan Barzani, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021 -
Moreno was charged with first-degree reckless homicide, party to a crime, but managed to evade arrest for more than a year.
— Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2023 -
To evade capture, some yacht owners have moved their vessels to the sanction-free waters of Russia and Turkey.
— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2022 -
The black bear managed to evade capture in 2021 after changing its travel routing, the agency said.
— Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2022 -
The rest are trying to evade capture, either by climbing over the wall and making a break for it into the city, or trekking deep into the surrounding desert.
— Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023 -
How long the inmate who escaped last month, Mohamed Amra, will evade capture is an open question.
— Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 5 June 2024 -
The two others — Mouton and Muratalla — had managed to evade capture as of Friday.
— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022 -
If every suspect could evade arrest by putting the state to this choice, societal order would quickly break down.
— Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022 -
In Gaza, in their search for hostages, Israeli forces have raided hospitals, dug up gravesites and scoured tunnels used by Hamas to evade capture and hide from Israeli bombs.
— Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024 -
Mesa police spokesperson Detective Richard Encinas said Williams cut his beard and hair to evade arrest.
— Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023 -
The band members then spend the rest of the video trying to outrun fans, getting into a fight with a chain gang, speeding through a mini market and even jumping off a roof to evade capture.
— Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2023 -
Inspired by real events, the show stars Rafael Amaya as the titular drug lord who undergoes plastic surgery in order to evade capture.
— Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023 -
In real life, Sobhraj was nicknamed The Serpent for his ability to evade capture and escape prison multiple times.
— Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 2 Apr. 2021 -
The study provides new insights into how sharks’ are defending themselves to evade capture by orcas.
— Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022 -
Mutations change the appearance of the spike protein that covers the coronavirus much like a crook switches disguises to evade capture.
— Lauran Neergaard, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2022 -
She was sentenced to three years in federal prison for providing money to her siblings to travel in efforts to evade capture by police.
— Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024 -
But when everything goes wrong, the duo must evade capture not only from the police but also from corrupt bureaucrats and underground crime lords.
— Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 June 2024 -
Some try to evade capture after crossing, but most seek out U.S. border agents to begin the process of making a humanitarian claim.
— Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021 -
Authorities reportedly nearly corralled the animal in the town of Mastic, but the bull was able to evade capture.
— Michael Hollan, Fox News, 21 July 2021 -
Flash forward 15 years later, and this leads to a dash around the world as Hanna and Erik continuously evade capture, while Hanna also gets her first taste of life as a teenager (and Snickers bars).
— Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020 -
After watching the footage, scientists now believe the sharks try to evade capture by employing a technique also used by seals and sea turtles: circling the orcas and staying in their sight, writes the Post.
— Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
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