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Example sentences for "arriving"

Lexicographically close words:
arrived; arrivee; arriver; arrives; arriveth; arroba; arrobas; arrogance; arrogancy; arrogant
  1. It took us a very little while to fetch off to the Pembroke, and on arriving on board, Mr. Beauvoir instantly sent to know if he could see the captain, since he brought great news from the shore.

  2. It was half past two, and nobody who wanted to be considered anybody thought of arriving before that hour.

  3. He immediately called in one of his subordinates to make arrangements for the immediate despatch of a body of mounted police to Pavlovsk, where they would lie in wait for the arriving carriage.

  4. I cannot calm myself until I know what happened between my leaving the Palace and arriving here.

  5. On arriving back at his hotel, he found a sealed note from the General, summoning him to his office at an early hour the following morning.

  6. Soon after arriving at this conclusion, Mr. Gray's farrash, an Armenian he brought with him from Ispahan, comes in with a message that another Shahzedah has succeeded in getting past the guard and sends in his salaams.

  7. Arriving at one of these villages, an hour before sunset, the old guide advocates remaining for the night.

  8. Here I obtain passage on a little ferry-boat across to Shimonoseki, arriving there about two o'clock in the afternoon.

  9. Arriving at some likely spot the eager aspirant for finny prizes rests on his oars, and allows his aquatic confederates to take to the water in search of their natural prey, the fishes.

  10. Arriving on the scene just as the game is breaking up, I am cordially invited to "come in and take a peg.

  11. Arriving at the river, the little officer is dumbfounded to discover that I have no sampan--that I am not travelling by boat, but overland on the bicycle.

  12. Children shouted and scampered everywhere; gathered in fascinated groups about the ice-cream and candy and popcorn booths that sprang up at every corner; met arriving cousins and aunts at the train; ran on last-minute errands.

  13. We reach it by the use of an "active scepticism," of which he says that "it continually aims at overcoming itself and arriving by means of regulated experience at a kind of conditioned certainty.

  14. An active scepticism is one which constantly aims at overcoming itself, and arriving by means of regulated experience at a kind of conditioned certainty.

  15. The rest of the Ulland House party were arriving by the next train.

  16. Vida turned her head in time to see the meeting between two girls and a woman arriving from opposite directions.

  17. Cutts, on arriving in London, went straight to Mrs. Crane's old lodging opposite to Jasper's.

  18. In the provinces, as in Paris, men before the public eye are like that statue in the fine allegorical tale of Addison, for which two knights on arriving near it fought; for one saw it white, the other saw it black.

  19. Arriving that morning at the hotel du More, she had been told of the catastrophe.

  20. Arriving in Galena Friday morning, the clerk figures up his receipts with the following result: Up trip $4,450.

  21. Arriving at their destination the question of her marriage with the warrior again came up, and she was told that she would be given to him that very day.

  22. But on arriving at the spot they found it perfectly tranquil--everything wore the proper stillness of an orderly and well-protected night.

  23. The traces of the elephant were now of a different character, from what they had been before arriving at the ant-hill.

  24. On arriving at the spot, to their great satisfaction the hunters discovered no less than eight full-grown quaggas in the trap--just twice the number required to mount the party.

  25. Irvine told me that on arriving at Wuerzburg he had written informing the American Embassy at Berlin of his position, and that in reply the Ambassador expressed a wish for information concerning the whereabouts of British officers.

  26. On arriving at Cambrai station I found that the "special hospital train" consisted of ordinary 3rd-class corridor coaches, which were packed with French and English wounded.

  27. In the Butterfly Division On arriving at the hospital at Dames Camiers, we were put to bed.

  28. On arriving at the scene, there was the motor-lorry almost buried to the top of the wheels.

  29. They were in various stages of undress, some arriving clad only in pants.

  30. I left San Antonio on my return one morning at eleven o'clock and rode seventy miles by nine o'clock that night, arriving at the Nueces River and Turkey Creek bottoms.

  31. On arriving at the house the bride and her maids of honour enter and remain for the night, while the elders return home.

  32. Arriving in England, Margaret visited the Mechanics' Institute in Liverpool, and found the "Dial" quoted in an address recently given by its director.

  33. Thither she sped without delay, arriving just in time to save the life of the neglected and forsaken child, whose wicked nurse, uncertain of further payment, had indeed abandoned him.

  34. The steamer, arriving once in twenty-four hours, brought mails and travellers, and a little stir of novelty and excitement.

  35. Arriving at night, the steamer fired some rockets, and Margaret heard with a sinking heart the wild cries of the excited Indians, and the pants and snorts of the departing steamer.

  36. The crew were provided with life-belts, and the half of the money promised, and all except the captain, the engineer, and the two mates dropped overboard just before arriving at the sunken vessels.

  37. Halting before the open window, he looked up and down the street for the arriving motor-car.

  38. The regiments in question were in many cases stationed at considerable distance, and although they had received orders to start, were prevented from arriving owing to the universal interruptions of the railway traffic south.

  39. All was confusion at Bordon, where men were arriving in hundreds on foot and by the service of motor omnibuses, which the War Office had on the day before established between Charing Cross and Aldershot.

  40. Every train arriving from the North was crowded with Volunteers and troops of the line from all stations in the Northern Command.

  41. And Dear Teacher, smiling at Emmy Lou just arriving with her school-bag, went in, too, and rang the bell.

  42. Pan's father came home once or twice a month that spring, always arriving late and leaving at an early hour.

  43. Arriving at the gate he dismounted and went in.

  44. In addition to this oddments have been arriving all day--instruments, clothing, and personal effects.

  45. That night we travelled to London, arriving about two o'clock in the morning.

  46. I've arrived on boat-trains from America, troop trains from Canada, and come back from romantic romps in Italy, but never in my wildest imaginings did I picture myself arriving as a wounded soldier on a Red Cross train.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arriving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.