Example sentences for: arresting

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

  • The present is in (less arresting) color, with a framing device that's groan-inducingly earnest.

  • 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.

  • The pitch to the Bosnians, both in private consultations with national leaders and in a public speech in Sarajevo, included Clinton's insistence on the importance of isolating and arresting indicted war criminals.

  • Stepped sides and Art Deco–style wall decorations make the New England Telephone Building on the southern edge of the square one of the most arresting.

  • In 1983 he produced an elegant book with the unprepossessing title The Visual Display of Quantitative Information , which both explained and demonstrated certain rules for presenting numerical data in a graphically arresting manner.


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