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How to use arresting in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Arresting means striking, gripping. Example: “The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.”

Examples of arresting by meaning

adjectiveStriking, gripping.

  • There's a little of each in "Julien Donkey-Boy," a visually arresting, dramatically blurry portrait of a schizophrenic.2001, New York Times Theater Reviews, The New York Times Film Reviews, 1999-2000, page 146
  • This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told.2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar...

More sentences with arresting

  • The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.From the entry detail
  • The only armed men Gross shows us in action are arresting demonstrators at European antimilitary protests.1988 November 4, Peter Friederici, “Significant Moments”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antimilitary
  • Chairwise, the Latvians have done some very arresting things lately.2021, S. J. Perelman, Adam Gopnik, S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346). From the entry chairwise
  • Dupont interrupts the continuity of the master narrative of lighthouse-keeping and marital and extramarital love with visually arresting mise-en-scènes and mise-en-shots.2010, Paul Matthew St, E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film, Pierre: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 173. From the entry mise en scène
  • Police officers and prosecutors were forced to spend sizeable proportions of their capacity on arresting and prosecuting faredodgers.1995, Changes in Society, Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe. From the entry fare dodger
  • This arresting autobiographical novel pulls no punches; rather, it lands them on the reader as frequently as fists descend on its subject.2017 February 1, Neil Bartlett, “The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis review – a childhood in hell”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry pull punches
  • And yet, arresting figures suggesting a decline in early season ratings have prompted an outbreak of soul‑searching at those broadcasters and head‑scratching among analysts.2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London…. From the entry soul-searching
  • What is arresting in the periodical is the primitivistic, prerational, antitechnological, and anticivilizational cult that lies at the core of its articles.1995, Murray Bookchin, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, AK Press, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry anticivilizational
  • It is useful in arresting bleeding.1993, H K Bakhru, Herbs that Heal, page 185. From the entry bloodwort
  • When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them.1973, Knapp Commission, New York, The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, page 83. From the entry flake
  • King Charles has insisted “the law must take its course” after detectives took the unprecedented step of arresting his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office.2026 February 19, Jamie Grierson, Rajeev Syal, Vikram Dodd, “King says ‘law must take its course’ after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s…. From the entry take its course
  • Bohmes Liebeslied, for flute and piano, is arresting in its low-key broodiness; Bittersweet Music I, its piccolo a lonely bird in its nervous twitters, continued the despairing mood.1991 September 13, Ted Shen, “Composing Women”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry broodiness
  • His appearance and manner are peculiarly arresting, and as he raised his hand for order the whole audience settled down expectantly to give him a hearing.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry expectantly
  • “They started cutting off zipties, someone re-ziptied themselves to each other, and eventually just pulled them off one by on and took them into the back,” arresting all of them.2012, Occupying Wall Street, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry ziptie
  • There was another showing Chief Ottermole, looking even handsomer and groomier, thanks to Edna Mae's fond attentions, arresting a medium-sized man who had his head turned away from the camera.2012, Charlotte MacLeod, An Owl Too Many. From the entry groomy

Meaning of arresting

  1. adjective Striking, gripping.

Full definition of arresting

Questions about arresting in a sentence

How do you use arresting in a sentence?
Arresting is used as an adjective. For example: “The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.”
What is a short sentence with arresting?
“It is useful in arresting bleeding.”
What does arresting mean?
Arresting means striking, gripping.

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