catch a crook
Frequency: 6.04.5 per million words
to capture a criminal
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Examples (10)
- The police are determined to catch the crook responsible for the downtown burglaries.
- After weeks of surveillance, they finally caught the crook who was running the scam.
- It's the detective's job to catch the crooks and bring them to justice.
- The hero of the story sets a clever trap to catch the wily crook.
- Catching a crook of that caliber will require our best team.
- The public demanded that the authorities do more to catch these corporate crooks.
- He vowed that he wouldn't rest until he caught the crook who had cheated his family.
- How can we possibly catch this crook if he leaves no evidence behind?
- A reward was offered for any information that would help catch the art-thief crook.
- The veteran officer explained it's sometimes harder to catch a small-time crook than a major kingpin.