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How to use arched in a sentence

27 example sentences · adjective

Arched means curved. Example: “His arched back ached from the constant strain.”

Examples of arched by meaning

adjectiveCurved.

  • His arched back ached from the constant strain.
  • The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill....

More sentences with arched

  • The architect incorporated a lunule design into the arched windows of the cathedral.From the entry lunule
  • They swim above us and linger in nooks and arched doorways.2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep, page 65. From the entry mer
  • A sweeping arched roof is held up by a bridgelike cable-stayed suspension system.2008 February 29, David W. Dunlap, “Modern Pool for Public Is Opening in Flushing”, in New York Times. From the entry bridgelike
  • Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.2001, Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation, page 148. From the entry front
  • Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her.1995 October 26, “Accent on Women's Art Latinas at two...”, in The Denver Post. From the entry facial hair
  • Her back arched, and in the moonglow she looked like a pagan offering, mysterious, delectable, irresistible.1994, Susan Wiggs, Circle in the Water, page 221. From the entry moonglow
  • The black horse paced slowly out into the open, neck arched, nostrils aflare, eyes rolling.1983, Ahdaf Soueif, Aisha, London: Black Swan, published 1985, page 163. From the entry aflare
  • She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 70. From the entry antic
  • He stared up at the arched windows and the highreaching steeple with a small, simple cross sitting at its height.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 21, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, pages 119–20. From the entry highreaching
  • Face B has prominent arched browlines, wide eyes, well-proportioned nose with recessed nostrils, indistinct smiling mouth, knob-like chin, and fat cheeks.1995, E. M. Stern, Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First Through Sixth Centuries (page 243). From the entry browline
  • But a narrow spur of rocks arched out and over the hole, ending in an outcrop perhaps a hundred feet across.1986, Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic, published 2022, page 121. From the entry spur
  • Short in a black tie at his piano, beneath a golden arched proscenium, spotlighted on an otherwise dark stage.1984 April 14, Michael Bronski, “Sophistication and Verve”, in Gay Community News, page 18. From the entry spotlight
  • The arched corolla lobes and large acumens give the corolla a circular appearance with acumens standing out sharply from it.1978, chapter 2, in The Potato Crop: The scientific basis for improvement, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry acumen
  • He arched his eyebrows over the summons.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry earthly
  • A whelm was a wooden drainpipe, a hollowed-out tree trunk, "whelmed down" or turned with the concavity downwards to form an arched watercourse.2023, Christopher Hadley, The Road, William Collins Books, →ISBN. From the entry whelm
  • Scansioning the walkway face of the garden wall like an unfolding scroll, he strolled south as far as the narrow arched doorway to the belltower.2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry scansion
  • Soft and arched and almost white.1998, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices. From the entry rosepetal
  • So slim and long were they, of instep so nobly arched, that only with a pair of glazed ox-tongues on a breakfast-table were they comparable.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry vesture
  • Trees grew out of mud, arched upon lean and high roots, and many muddy waterways ran allwhither into darkness under the trees.1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill. From the entry allwhither
  • She had coral-orange hair, beryl-blue eyes, arched brows, freckles, a coy smile, a psychedelic labcoat and she was, he suddenly realized, his best friend of over twenty years.2022 September 24, HarryBlank, “Transition”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024. From the entry psychedelic
  • Ever the pedestrian, Jason shoegazes to the side of his rhythm section, his body limp against a guitar and greased locks flowing down over his arched brow.2004, Erik Morse, Spacemen 3 and the Birth of Spiritualized, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry shoegaze
  • Louis had adopted the same dainty stance – left leg forward, toes pointed, foot arched – in Rigaud's justly famous swagger portrait of the monarch in full ceremonial regalia.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 2. From the entry swagger portrait
  • The fuse was lit and zizzling away; champagne, skyrockets, pinwheels and finally The Great Whiz-Bang; my back arched, my hands twisted around her soft silken hair.2001, Gene Gach, Honestly!, page 136. From the entry zizzle
  • On the dexter of the court is a long hall with an arched ceiling and a door, leading to a small oblong shrine with a vaulted ceiling.1971, Debala Mitra, Buddhist Monuments. From the entry dexter
  • The zone decoration becomes a pattern composed of innumerable groups of architraved and arched divisions, set one within the other, so as to cover the whole surface of the wall.1914, Gertrude Bell, chapter 5, in Palace and Mosque at Ukhaiḍir, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, page 130. From the entry architraved

Meaning of arched

  1. adjective Curved.

Full definition of arched

Questions about arched in a sentence

How do you use arched in a sentence?
Arched is used as an adjective. For example: “His arched back ached from the constant strain.”
What is a short sentence with arched?
“Soft and arched and almost white.”
What does arched mean?
Arched means curved.

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