arriver

Example Sentences

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A handful of early arrivers watched the effort, which involved at least a half-dozen workers, a couple of ladders, a big net and a thickly padded glove.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021

The eager early afternoon arrivers looking for British strangeness should hit the Ruen Brothers, an out-of-time young band featuring croons suggestive of Roy Orbison, Jarvis Cocker and Morrissey.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2015

“It” tingles with intimations of a destiny reachable by bridge or tunnel and a quotient of E. B. White’s requirement for arrivers here, “a willingness to be lucky.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2014

Whenever an aging animal arrivers at the farm, its owners make it a promise.

From Time • Jan. 20, 2014

All arrivers in Virginia must take the oath of supremacy.

From Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings by Johnston, Mary