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
  • Nell just wants to evade capture long enough to find an honest magistrate to clear her name.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The prolonged use of a church to evade arrest may sometimes be one of those circumstances.
    — Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Cruz, who was attempting to evade arrest, shot the officer five times at close range.
    — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Stoodley fled the scene and managed to evade arrest until Wednesday.
    — Warren Kulo | [email protected], al, 4 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • With no sign of civilization and no way to call for help, the women rely on their wits and each other to evade capture.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The study provides new insights into how sharks’ are defending themselves to evade capture by orcas.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • 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 Jackal, besides being an expert sniper, also had to pretend to be someone else to evade capture.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The suspects attempted to evade arrest but were taken into custody and the jewelry was recovered.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • When things go awry, the reluctant duo enlist the help of Rory’s therapist (Hong Chau) to evade capture.
    — Vic Verbalaitis, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The two others — Mouton and Muratalla — had managed to evade capture as of Friday.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Despite escalating pictures of Crooks to command, the would-be assassin managed to evade capture.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 31 July 2024
  • 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

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