Learn · Sentences Reporting a Crime

The criminal was apprehended shortly after the crime took place.

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Sentence

Narrator

The criminal was apprehended shortly after the crime took place.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

News Reporting

Police apprehended the criminal shortly after the crime was committed.

Legal Proceedings

The defendant was apprehended shortly after the incident occurred.

Narrative Writing

The thief was apprehended moments after he left the scene.

Casual Conversation

They caught the guy right after he did it.

Rephrased versions

Formal

The perpetrator was taken into custody shortly following the commission of the crime.

Casual

They nabbed the criminal soon after the crime happened.

Simpler English

The police caught the criminal quickly after the crime.

Phrases to learn

apprehended

To seize or arrest for a crime.

shortly after

Soon after; a short time after.