Example sentences for: arresting

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

  • 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.

  • Many papers have been reporting that one focus so far is Afghan-based Saudi Arabian financier Osama bin Laden, but this USAT story adds that a team of FBI and CIA officials went to Pakistan earlier this year to investigate arresting him.

  • An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as “a flimsy and frivolous erection,” while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself “beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.”

  • 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.

  • 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.


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