Sample Sentences for

apprehend

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It defines intelligence as "the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action toward a desired goal."

How will the first truly intelligent machine apprehend the world?

We are in the first place to apprehend that there is a time fixed and stated by God for the Devil to enjoy a dominion over our sinful and therefore woful world.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

The med-droids had trouble apprehending her.†  (source) Marissa Meyer, Cinder, 2012

Can you apprehend these outside forces?  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

Volkheimer switches off the light, and Werner apprehends something excruciating held at bay there in the darkness.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

The next incident of reality Toohey apprehended was his own hand dropping down on the typewriter keys: he heard the metal cough of the levers tangling and striking together, and the small jump of the carriage.  (source) Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943

Even death, Alessandro thought, would yield to beauty-if not in fact then in explanation-for the likeness of every great question could be found in forms as simple as songs, and there, if not explicable, they were at least perfectly apprehensible.  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

Through the window should come a hunting-song from some rapid unapprehended life—a sound that shouts among the hills and dies away.†  (source) Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931

Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

I know that the leisurely tricks which their want of conviction leaves them free to play with the diluted and misapprehended message supply them with a pleasant parlor game which they call style.†  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Man And Superman, 1903

You almost make me say you are an unapprehending peasant woman, who have never been initiated into the proportions of social things.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891

"You're always like that," she answered, as though completely misapprehending him, and of all he had said only taking in the last phrase.†  (source) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877

They apprehended the suspect late last night.

You'd say that was all Liesel Meminger needed to apprehend her second stolen book, even if it smoked in her hands.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

The culprit is far too cunning to be apprehended for this dastardly deed.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

The headline reads: "Brutal Murderer Finally Apprehended!"  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

Is he determined to strand me outside District 12 until he can apprehend and arrest me?  (source) Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, 2009

One day he came up to the office, all in a hurry, and had a private interview with the magistrate, who, after a deal of talk, rings the bell, and orders Jem Spyers in (Jem was a active officer), and tells him to go and assist Mr. Chickweed in apprehending the man as robbed his house.  (source) Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, 1838

Apprehended using an illegal hex upon Bertram Aubrey.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

This morning they had not expected to locate and apprehend him.  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

Solomon, my top priority is apprehending the man at Franklin Square, and you will sit here with one of my men until I accomplish that task.  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Considering we've got nothing better to work with, I intend to tell Chief Deacon that the Mother Paula's vandal has been apprehended.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

We failed to apprehend the target, and I have every reason to believe he's about to carry out his threat.  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Why had they apprehended Tate?  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

I apprehend that man, and call upon him to surrender, and you to assist.  (source) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

I hope it is better than we apprehend.

I trembled violently, apprehending some dreadful misfortune.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

Is the danger you apprehended last night gone by now, sir?  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

Besides, had not the deputy, who had been so kind to him, told him that provided he did not pronounce the dreaded name of Noirtier, he had nothing to apprehend?  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

The wills thrust westward ahead of them, and fears that had once apprehended drought or flood now lingered with anything that might stop the westward crawling.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939

They agree with me in apprehending that this false step in one daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others; for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, will connect themselves with such a family?  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless, of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of mortality and desperately mortal.  (source) William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604

At the sight of this slaughter and devastation I became terrified, not for myself—for I, a simple Corsican fisherman, had nothing to fear; on the contrary, that time was most favorable for us smugglers—but for my brother, a soldier of the empire, returning from the army of the Loire, with his uniform and his epaulets, there was everything to apprehend.  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

We shall greatly miss Edmund in our small circle, but I trust and hope he will find the poor invalid in a less alarming state than might be apprehended, and that he will be able to bring him to Mansfield shortly,  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

True, the planks were not so closely adjusted but that a hasty peep might be obtained through their interstices; but the strict decorum and rigid propriety of the inhabitants of the house left no grounds for apprehending that advantage would be taken of that circumstance.  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

Mr. Brownlow, seeming to apprehend that his singular friend was about to say something disagreeable, asked Oliver to step downstairs and tell Mrs. Bedwin they were ready for tea; which, as he did not half like the visitor's manner, he was very happy to do.  (source) Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, 1838

…and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

Seriously apprehending that his malady would increase, unless we put some innocent deception upon him and caused him to believe that he was useful, or unless we could put him in the way of being really useful (which would be better), I made up my mind to try if Traddles could help us.  (source) Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1850