Etymology
Origin of arrowy
Example Sentences
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With a no-nonsense, arrowy skating style, Eldredge is intensely competitive, drilling hard all the time.
From Time Magazine Archive
In qualifying rounds there were never such long, arrowy liners from the tee.
From Time Magazine Archive
At each stroke of the oars the arrowy boat flies and skims the waters like a thing of life.
From Turkey Peeps at Many Lands by Millingen, Julius R. Van
O, cold, cold, miserably cold is this bleak night for Hugh, Its showery, arrowy, speary sleet pierceth one through and through, Pierceth one to the very bone!
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
The sun had mounted above the eastern end of the Wildschutsberg, and now an arrowy beam, sweeping down from the gilded crags, pierced like a searchlight the cold grey mists of early dawn.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram
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