is arresting
- present progressive of arrest (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
At others, it is arresting business leaders, conducting military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, and reaching out to American adversaries as it develops its global supply chain.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
“We don’t know who is arresting our brothers and sisters, because they are hiding behind masks,” Michael Rodriguez, a city alderman, told CBS News.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025
Pakistan is arresting and expelling all foreigners it says are in the country illegally, but the policy mostly affects Afghans because they are the biggest group of undocumented foreigners in the country.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
“It’s nothing. You heard them, no one is arresting anyone.”
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
