How to Use evade capture/arrest in a Sentence

evade capture/arrest

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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
  • 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
  • Jayne fled the rig on foot and was believed to have stolen multiple vehicles while trying to evade capture, according to authorities.
    Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 6 May 2024

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