VERB
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reach a destination, either real or abstract
We barely made it to the finish line
We hit Detroit by noon
I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts
The water reached the doorstep
How To Use arrive at In A Sentence
- I submit, therefore, that a great deal of thought and probably some experimentation are needed to arrive at the correct via media between clericalism and laicism.
- Rogan Ward/Reuters A poll worker waited for voters to arrive at a Nkandla, South Africa, polling site Wednesday. Voters in South Africa Head to Polls
- The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
- Features include alerts so you know when they arrive at or leave school. The Sun
- Doing the best I can from the mass of material and figures now accumulated I must now arrive at figures for each of the insurance years.
- When I arrive at the hotel, I dump the toiletry bag and clothes, and use the bag as a purse (eliminating the need to pack an additional "day" bag).
- After being sprayed with the chemicals (typically chlorpropham or maleic hydrazide) potatoes arrive at the store looking perfect, unblemished, and without any sprouts for up to a year after harvest. Janine Yorio: Where Did the Potato Sprouts Go?
- But it takes a blending of the romantic and the practical that is unique to my mother to spontaneously arrive at such a conclusion.
- I expect you to arrive at 7:30 on the dot.
- If we may apply to art what Goethe said of poetry we find that among its votaries there are two kinds of self-half-informed people, "dilettanti," he calls them, "he who neglects the indispensable mechanical part, and he thinks he has done enough if he shows spirituality and feeling, and he who seeks to arrive at poetry merely by mechanism in which he can acquire an artisan's readiness, and is without soul and matter. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission