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Example sentences for: arresting

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These give an arresting piquancy to the many proverbs still surviving in Shetland.
British police raided five Irish Republican Army hideouts in London, killing one suspected terrorist, arresting five others, and confiscating 10 tons of explosives.
Set phrases not only serve as arresting openings and closings in advertising; they also function as headlines in newspaper articles, quotable climaxes in political speeches, and punch-lines in jokes, as when a Times journalist attending a demonstration of teachers outside Parliament wrote:
OK, I'll admit it, I almost never read the Los Angeles Times (I'll tell you sometime the whole reason--it has to do with finding out how the paper is edited), but there was a cute story in there today about the police arresting seven people for feeding the homeless in downtown's Pershing Square.
One of the many arresting images in The Sixties , Richard Avedon's latest collection of portraits, is a famous photograph of Andy Warhol.