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How to use arresting in a sentence

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When they unfurled it dozens of cops swarmed over the protesters, knocking them to the ground and arresting several.
Our defensive system achieved this, but failed to complete the job with the apparently minor detail of arresting the attacker's forward progress.
They are arresting medics and ambulance drivers, including foreign volunteer medical workers.
There's something about blocks of text, with odd patterns and traceries running through it, that is visually arresting.
Police also went on the rampage after the demonstration, attacking shoppers and arresting children.
One would assume that Mills, coming from the progressive, underground garage movement, would buttress his raps with arresting beats.
Revitalised and re-energised, the contest is now a mishmash of arresting questions, hot competitions, and more.
John 18 implies that a Roman tribune ordered part of his cohort to accompany the chief priests and the Pharisees in arresting Jesus on Thursday.
When arresting prisoners, my guards will not allow them to stop and grab a useless trinket of purely sentimental value.
His Sweeney is arresting, ominous, darkly humorous, and scary in just the right proportions, and, in the end, thoroughly moving.
Special operations forces surgically attack the terrorist concentrations, arresting those who surrender and killing those who resist violently.
The only variety on this journey through unabating forest and palm plantations was a policeman arresting a fellow passenger.
On April 10, the forestry police finally became wise to the situation and raided the restaurant, arresting the owner and 20 employees.
The Germans did as they pleased, suppressing opponents and arresting anyone who spoke out against them.
While police were stumped in their investigation, they got lucky after arresting John for shoplifting.
This nifty little thriller opens with the arresting image of a nebbishy accountant being dangled over the side of a bridge.
In this arresting poem, she describes treeing a raccoon at night and capturing it on film.
The intentionally boxy, stilted animation is arresting at first, until one is distracted by the content of the show itself.
He was grabbed from the arresting officer by a gang of masked men who tied a rope around his neck and hanged him.
One of the most arresting images in this exhibition is the stricken face of a young woman.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Shall we pray for a second Joshua, arresting the sun, pending deliberation?
If the prefigurement was at any point vague it was none the less arresting.
There sounded from somewhere in the house a shrill little cry, arresting his thought, and controverting it without a syllable.
Right in front of our eyes he was arresting Alex and signing our death warrants.
These are vigorous and arresting, if, to the unmodern eye, somewhat formless.
We were yachting on the Mississippi, and we could not bother with arresting and holding prisoners.
I put a finger to my lips, and gave her a look by which I succeeded in arresting her.
The danger of arresting the elimination of the poison in all cases of food poisoning can not be too emphatically condemned.
Lexington was initially fitted with an electrically-operated arresting gear design which used both fore-and-aft and transverse wires.
I told you Naarboveck was out of reach as far as arresting him goes.
The images include Royal Navy sailors sawing a manacle off the leg of one and Marines arresting the Arab trader.
And then Silas Bannerman, a secret service agent of the United States, leaped into world-fame by arresting Emil Gluck.
Is it we who are indicting and arresting, or gleaning or depredating?
I'm not arresting people, jailing them, making them disappear.
Lothian's arresting voice was quite clear as he spoke to the butler.
Scott's vision of the future is an arresting display of imagination and grittiness.
No, no, Isabella, you sha'n't run off,' she continued, arresting, with feigned playfulness, the confounded girl, who had risen indignantly.
Encounter is as arresting as the jets that make their exhilaratingly low final approach over the 1-405 and Century Boulevard commute crunch.
The woman's body was buried shallowly, where the dry air and sand quickly sucked all the body fluids, thus arresting decomposition and mummifying her.
Police laid siege to the cinema in Willenhall, West Midlands, after the shooting and waited for the film to finish before arresting the alleged gunman and three others.
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