Example Sentences

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In his daily life “he will arch and extend, which makes his hips and his thighs really tight,” Ms. Foster said.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2016

Most notably they will arch their backs, a strain that can lead to injury.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2011

But the overriding tone of the festivities is pure glitz, in which an illuminated gas-filled plastic rainbow will arch 600 feet across the Charles River from Harvard's campus in Cambridge to Boston.

From Time Magazine Archive

At your first advance he will arch his neck, paw his hoof, bend into the bit, stiffen the traces and dash on.

From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

That sand or earth will arch under certain conditions has long been an accepted fact.

From Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 by Meem, J. C.