Words similar to arresting

Example sentences for: arresting

How can you use “arresting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

That would be all right if he could offer some other coherent way to think about these issues, or even if his critique were arresting or persuasive.
Funny, I don't see the government arresting pack-a-day cigarette smokers or lobbying to criminalize tobacco.
In the process of arresting two Serb officials indicted by a U.N.-administered war-crimes tribunal on the charge of operating concentration camps, the NATO peacekeepers killed one in a gun battle.
These give an arresting piquancy to the many proverbs still surviving in Shetland.
He takes no bribes, vows never to plant evidence or to shoot hardened criminals instead of arresting them, and single-handedly dynamites the "blue wall of silence" when police are caught beating the hell out of a group of Latino suspects.