Sentence examples for were trying to apprehend from inspiring English sources

He fled the country as the authorities were trying to apprehend him.

The forces were trying to apprehend a high-level Taliban target, they said.

Ed Davis, the police commissioner of Boston, confirmed that they were trying to apprehend a man identified on Thursday night as Suspect Two.

After the two tried to "shoot, bomb and kill" the officers who were trying to apprehend them, it said, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was tackled to the ground by three police officers.

Sergeant Eberling said police officers and federal marshals were trying to apprehend Mr. Morales when he was shot, but he declined to say whether the fugitive had a weapon or made any threats toward the officers.

Ciancia appeared in court for the first time earlier this month before a judge in a courtroom inside a Rancho Cucamonga jail, where he is being held while recovering from gunshot wounds he suffered when airport police were trying to apprehend him.

The bounty hunter was trying to apprehend the singer.

In 1935, she was hospitalized after being thrown down a flight of stairs by a "masher" she was trying to apprehend at the Savoy Theater, The Times said.

When a soldier she's trying to apprehend punches her in the nose and she fights back in an impressive show of hand-to-hand combat.

One police officer was injured while trying to apprehend them, Mr. Mutlu also said.

Coast Guard officials could not recall any episode in which a member of the Coast Guard was killed while trying to apprehend smugglers in California.