Example Sentences

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The kitchen cabinets — which had arched, raised-panel doors and a white plastic veneer that we weren’t crazy about — went to a Bronx family in the spring so our contractor could start demolition.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2021

By the following morning the upper part of the plumule had arched itself into a right angle, and the convex side or elbow had thus been forced out through the slit.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Bland’s frenzied yell seemed not to have excited it at all, for now the sleek fellow had arched its body neatly and was calmly licking its sides with a long forked tongue.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Bates, Harry

They took pictures, and Elmer made sure to get one of the tree that in falling had arched the streamlet in such a remarkable way.

From Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge by Douglas, Alan

Homer calls the Swan long-necked, δουλιχοδείρον; but how much more pittoresque, if he had arched this length of neck?”

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol