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under arrest

under arrest prepositional phrase: arrested by the police.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Arrested by the police.
    • be under arrest
    • place under arrest

Examples of under arrest in a sentence

  • put someone under arrest
  • ‘Observation Officer of the Z12Q, attention!’ snapped from the tight-beam headquarters communicator. ‘Cut off those spy rays and report yourself under arrest for treason!’1934 August, Edward Elmer Smith, “Skylark of Valeron”, in Astounding Stories, volume 13, number 6:
  • They were police officers, and he was under arrest, charged with taking indecent pictures of his children under the Protection of Children Act 1978 (POCA).1998, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: porn, sex, technology and desire:
  • On Friday, the Thai police said he was under arrest and charged as a pedophile after computer experts had unswirled the digitally altered face in a virtuoso act of electronic decoding.2007 October 20, Seth Mydans, “Thai Police Arrest Pedophile Suspect”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:

Words formed from under arrest

Questions about under arrest

What does under arrest mean?
Under arrest means arrested by the police.
How do you use under arrest in a sentence?
put someone under arrest
What part of speech is under arrest?
Under arrest is a prepositional phrase.

Words near under arrest in the dictionary

  1. under a lucky star
  2. under a spell
  3. under and over
  4. under and overs
  5. under arms
  6. under arrest
  7. under boob
  8. under boobs
  9. under canvas
  10. under center
  11. under clothes

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