arrestingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Rolling Stone hailed "Lux" as "a truly timeless work of art", while music magazine NME called it "arrestingly beautiful".
From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025
What I did know was that Beverly’s extremely simple recipe yielded an arrestingly good bowl of soup.
From Salon • Jan. 16, 2025
‘Vengeance’ is an arrestingly smart, funny and affecting take on a slice of the American zeitgeist, one in which both the divisions between and connections with our fellow citizens are brought into sharp relief.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022
It begins arrestingly with Sheppard and Lawson airborne in their wheelchairs, floating and spinning like astronauts in low gravity.
From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022
Katz was arrestingly larger than when I had last seen him.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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