Example Sentences

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As social media has grown around the world, so has concern that too much screen time is arresting child development and contributing to declining mental health in minors.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

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

“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

Eilish’s song is arresting and finely crafted; with all due respect to Warren, I think it’s the most worthy winner.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2024

Skulason is a gentle and intense man with a gravitas that is arresting.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady