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:

My husband says that one of the side-effects of this lower crime rate is that police are arresting fewer people because so many criminals are already locked up.
The present is in (less arresting) color, with a framing device that's groan-inducingly earnest.
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.
He was told as a child, for instance, about the annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to his Virgin Mother, but then he forgot about it until he was 30, concentrating instead on the carpentry details that form the least arresting part of his narrative.
Yasser Arafat, having tried to show the Israelis he's serious about upholding his end of the just-concluded peace accords by arresting scores of Hamas members, is now, reports the WP , being threatened in a Hamas leaflet with violent retaliation.