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Example sentences for "apprehend"

Lexicographically close words:
appreciations; appreciative; appreciatively; appreciator; appreciators; apprehended; apprehender; apprehendeth; apprehending; apprehends
  1. If not, I apprehend that I am merely pursuing a course which has been sanctioned from all antiquity.

  2. The chiefs also who do not apprehend fugitives, they too are "bad.

  3. Oh," said he, "I am magistrate, shall I apprehend them?

  4. In the course of the day the police had been able to apprehend some twenty persons who had been conspicuous in the rioting in the various parts of Edinburgh.

  5. But Cratylus, who does not easily apprehend the argument from common sense, remains unconvinced, and on the whole inclines to his former opinion.

  6. Thus, when on January 5 the session opened, there was reason to apprehend grave complications.

  7. The question raised by Lord Midleton as to income tax and supertax had no bearing on the exclusion of Ulster, but the Government did not apprehend oppressive taxation by the Irish Parliament.

  8. I apprehend no change of feeling towards me.

  9. Notice had been received that a band of Royalists had introduced themselves into the capital, though it was for some time very difficult to apprehend them.

  10. The Creole was fortunate enough to be driven by adverse winds far north of the course which she had planned, because she thus escaped two Spanish war ships which had been sent out to apprehend and sink her.

  11. I am sorry to say, sir," answered Sir Pulteney, "that such I apprehend is their purpose.

  12. On the contrary, if Napoleon moved with his chief force against Blucher, he had, in like manner, to apprehend that Schwartzenberg would resume the route upon Paris by way of the valley of the Seine.

  13. This is a kind of threat to other wicked persons, and particularly to the infidels of Mecca, who deserved and might justly apprehend the same punishment.

  14. Literally, without being made to hear or apprehend what we say.

  15. I might here mention several superstitious rites and customs of the ancient Arabs, some of which were abolished and others retained by Mohammed; but I apprehend it will be more convenient to take notice 6 Safio'ddin.

  16. From few, if any, do I apprehend contempt on account of this avowal.

  17. This occurred about the commencement of the great Potato Revolution--an event which I apprehend will be long remembered by the squirearchy and shareholders of these kingdoms.

  18. Since cause and effect belong to the same realm of existence, to the same attribute of Nature, whenever we apprehend the essence of a particular thing, we necessarily apprehend the infinite essence of that attribute of Nature.

  19. A prophet is one who interprets the revelations of God to those who are unable to attain to sure knowledge of the matters revealed, and therefore can only apprehend them by simple faith.

  20. And we can apprehend the infinite essence of God or Nature because every particular finite thing is a determinate expression of the infinite.

  21. We can apprehend the eternal essence of God because the temporality of our thought is accidental to its meaning.

  22. He had scant need to apprehend interruption, however, while the long afternoon wore gradually away.

  23. Him I knew to be a Nonconformist minister, and there being, as is well known, warrants out to apprehend all Nonconformist ministers, I was willing to give him shelter from these warrants, which I knew was no treason.

  24. I have cause to apprehend some stroke that may disturb the public peace and ruin Don John himself if he is allowed to retain Escovedo any longer in his service.

  25. The only thing I can do now is to send a telegram down to the village to be dispatched to the authorities in all the surrounding towns, asking them to apprehend Budd when he shows up.

  26. But to apprehend absolute depopulation from that cause, and call for a law to prevent it, is calling for a law to stop the Thames, lest its waters, by what leave it daily at Gravesend, should be quite exhausted.

  27. Tomson used the occasion to refit and to repair his weapons, and the Waterford men called upon the Mayor of Cork to apprehend the pirates; but that prudent official refused to do so without special orders from Bellingham.

  28. The former we have more to apprehend from than the latter.

  29. Verily I am disposed to apprehend that there may be.

  30. Do you apprehend that his indifference is merely the result of separation, or have you any cause to attribute it to interest in some other person?

  31. NOW I begin to apprehend your meaning as well as your munificence.

  32. I begin to apprehend the difficulty," said he, laughing.

  33. A prophet is one who interprets the revelations of God {insights} to those who are unable to attain to sure knowledge of the matters revealed, and therefore can only apprehend them by simple faith.

  34. A rumour" is not as I apprehend an adequate foundation on which to build such a thing as the Christian religion, which claims to be derived from heaven.

  35. We apprehend Life in divine Science only as we live above corporeal sense and correct it.

  36. To fear them is impossible, when you fully apprehend God and know that they are no part of His creation.

  37. How much more should we seek to apprehend the spirit- 510:3 ual ideas of God, than to dwell on the objects of sense!

  38. Need and supply In order to apprehend more, we must put into prac- tice what we already know.

  39. Mortal beliefs can neither demonstrate Christianity nor apprehend the reality of Life.

  40. From that standpoint of error, they could not apprehend the nature and operation of Spirit.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apprehend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.