Example sentences for: arrow

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

  • For years, a sign along Route 80 in New Jersey near the George Washington Bridge flashed a “BEST ROUTE” arrow to indicate the road with the least traffic.

  • East of this temple, on the north side of the Second Ring Road, is Deshengmen Arrow Tower, a gate and archers’ tower from the Ming Dynasty that survived the demolition of the great city wall.

  • Arrow, the fly homolog of the LRPs, which are thought to be Wnt co-receptors in mammalian cells, is an obvious candidate for such an interactive protein.

  • Posterior sutures were readily found in vibratome sections of wild type lenses (Figure 3O, arrow).

  • It is not always easy to ascertain whether the underlying metaphor in such expressions is the bow and arrow or the gun and cannon (see Peter A. Douglas's “The Bows' Stratagem,” VERBATIM VI,3), but we can be fairly certain that the wad in shooting one's wad refers to the wad that held the powder and shot in position to be fired from early guns and that the pot in potshot signifies the dinner pot to be filled with an animal that was shot close up without any regard for rules.


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