How To Use Arrive In A Sentence

  • The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
  • When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
  • Last night, a steady stream of people arrived at the evacuation centre in Brisbane's showground, only a few minutes' drive from the swollen river. Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
  • I can say with certainty that a lot of arms shipments have arrived during this peace period.
  • It was still there a couple of years ago when Brendan Laney and Todd Blackadder arrived hotfoot from an NPC final.
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  • After a quarter of an hour, hot buttered toast on a covered hot water plate, with the Staffordshire cottage tea pot in its floral cosy, arrived.
  • Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
  • Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
  • She may have arrived late or it is equally possible that she never went there at all.
  • The 22-year-old arrived without huge fanfare or any of the media lobbying that normally accompanies the promotion of a fresh face.
  • The president arrived at California in a helicopter yesterday.
  • James arrived in midafternoon with former teammate Damon Jones.
  • It was here that the Gaelic tongue first arrived in the fourth century - and with it came that form of the stick game which has evolved into the modern sport of shinty.
  • After just the right wait, they arrived, each accompanied by a side dish of steamed vegetables.
  • Local residents rushed to rescue dogs from the flames before fire engines arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • He was in a very bad mood when he arrived, and that set the tone for the whole meeting.
  • But although there was a scare with my first sample being clear, as we'd only just arrived, my second proved that I, along with the entire Sunday Herald table, was completely ratted and therefore allowed to keep the trophy.
  • When the evictors arrived at one home they found only a bedridden woman, Margaret Mackay, who was almost 100 years old.
  • This is Europe's problem too," went the refrain, after more than 1,400 immigrant had arrived in Tenerife and Gran Canaria in the previous week, making 2,000 landing in the month, mostly from Senegal and Mali. The pace quickens
  • The majority of holiday flights depart and arrive on schedule.
  • He didn't arrive as soon as we'd hoped.
  • 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 evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed. The Stone Monkey
  • They will be left-hand drive and should be priced around 33,000 when they arrive next year. The Sun
  • Thirty-five minutes after arriving in Kendal I arrived at work.
  • He had arrived at the funky mall via a side entrance slightly after 5 pm.
  • Normally, even in icy winter, the furnace in constant use gave warmth enough, supplemented by an electric convector heater in the gallery, but by the time help arrived for Baxter I had wrapped him in my jacket and everything else handy, and he was still growing cold to the touch. Shattered
  • There is a layer of dust on the dressing-table. Clean it before the guest arrives.
  • Older and newly arrived Vietnamese Americans often display indirectness and extreme politeness in dealing with others.
  • But hey, it didn't matter, because we were all having a frabjously great time and arrived at the same crossroad in less than 3/4 time.
  • We have a bunch of Wackadoo doos, who cannot accept that this Black man is the President of the United States and who are going around claiming that he is an undocumented alien and basically suggesting that he arrived at the presidency unlegimately. Police group: Obama should apologize
  • When I arrived, I had the sensation that she had been expecting me.
  • And in the sitcom with the Seinfeld thing, every time I arrived, which is what they call a recurring character, my hair was a different color. Buzzine » Jerry Stiller
  • In the night of the 28th 2,000 French dragoons each laden with 60 pounds of gunpowder arrived at the circumvallating walls in disguise.
  • He perused the annoyance that had arrived: ‘Oh, it's that mong, Otto.’
  • From early spring to late fall, he will leave his apartment, limp across the street and coax whoever is willing to play patty-cake with him until the bus arrives.
  • We'll just have to camp out until our furniture arrives.
  • 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
  • Former Springbok hooker Shaun Povey and scrumming expert Dougie Heymans have also arrived at the camp to assist coaching staff in preparing the forwards.
  • When we arrived she was in such a distressed state that we had to treat it with the upmost seriousness.
  • The short flowered dress and the high-heeled sandals she was wearing when she arrived in the park that day were identical to the clothing worn by the kidnapper. I’ll Walk Alone
  • Demonstrators arrived in strength to protest against the closure of the factory.
  • One day a letter from my father arrived at the school.
  • We must pay great attention because when you arrive after three defeats you are very dangerous. The Sun
  • The person who arrives, ect early will (probably) succeed. 
  • Features include alerts so you know when they arrive at or leave school. The Sun
  • The only other scores of a hard-fought, if unspectacular affair, arrived in the opening 13 minutes of the second half.
  • They arrived in Britain not long ago/recently.
  • I have to say I know we shared the same trepidation about being mums to boys, but mine arrived on Monday morning and we've never been happier in the 'shwa. High-Low
  • My stepson is assaulted outside a night club by door staff, the plod arrive and, as he is the one unconcious on the floor, he’s knicked. Sonnex and Farmer – only a matter of time. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • By the time they arrived she was bleeding from both ears. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bena and her husband, a condescending, philandering doctor named Ted, arrive in Pueblo, Colo., in the midst of a drought, as well as the Depression. As The Pages Turn
  • Mine is being built at the moment and should arrive in the next few weeks. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was to be here at 8.30 but she didn't arrive.
  • When it arrived, I discovered that every other chamber was bored wrong and would not accept a round.
  • The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way. Canadian Cities of Romance
  • Spring suspension had not yet arrived, and the carriage body jounced against a hard leather strap that kept it from crashing through the wheels. The King's Best Highway
  • Stunned gallery visitors watched as guards grabbed him until cops arrived to arrest him. The Sun
  • The weekend bag also arrives ready to go with a debossed leather luggage tag.
  • A hard core of supporters, mostly teenage girls, gathered at the airport to see the star arrive.
  • KOBE: We arrived at Kobe on the evening of April 10th, and fell at once into the grasp of the custom-house authorities, who proved, however, very lenient. Travels in the Far East
  • There then followed a redetermination of almost all of the other atomic weights arrived at by Stas (with the exception of carbon), and these too, in the majority of cases, were found to require exchanging for more exact values. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 - Presentation
  • There must be some better way to communicate with the kitchen so I take it to be an affectation, the other one being that although the food is already plated up when it arrives, it is served from a foldaway side table.
  • Travellers changing from train to bus at Southend Victoria rail station could soon have a better idea of when their bus will arrive.
  • The loved-up couple had arrived in Ireland by private jet, before being whisked to the plush Hotel in a blacked-out limo.
  • Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 
  • After about 10 minutes the riot police arrived.
  • He arrived with a police escort shortly before half past nine.
  • I had the parcel on the ground, and waited for ages, edging gradually into position, when it arrived.
  • I arrived here with my wife of 26 years and three children, and with no idea where the will of God would lead us to settle to begin planting a Reformed Baptist church.
  • We arrived home to the revelations about how disgusting York's public conveniences had been allowed to become over the Bank Holiday.
  • I reckon he will arrive in Shanghai at noon.
  • This happens around the time that Mercury arrives at that part of its orbit which places it closest to the Sun (called perihelion ), where it's orbital speed can briefly exceed its rotational speed.
  • The Trojan arrives in an e-mail with an attachment that is zipped and contains an executable.
  • She arrived shortly after us.
  • This no mail lark is really wearing, I hadn't realised quite how much I look forward to arriving home from work and finding out which books have arrived in the post. 48 entries from October 2007
  • The plane in which the Europeans arrive in San Theodoros is shown flying over an impoverished shanty town.
  • He and his fellow squaddies are not the only new recruits to arrive in the barracks. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's a photo shoot going on in the poolside bar as I arrive, and the parking valets are even more surly than downtown.
  • We arrived back in Baku around 7: 30, bid our adieus and returned to our respective sites. Archive 2008-06-01
  • She ran to alert neighbours who battled in vain to douse the blaze until firefighters arrived. The Sun
  • Mid morning a young girl arrives after a harrowing journey, bewildered by her new surroundings.
  • Nowhere is this more clear than in the scene when everyone first arrives on the island and sees a brachiosaur for the first time. Jurassic Park vs. Jurassic Park 3: Lament for a Fallen Franchise | /Film
  • We arrived at the grounds after following a rabble of butterflies through the streets.
  • It tastes good; a twist arrives on a napkin.
  • Then winter arrives - usually for about two weeks - and we get new weeds - chickweed, henbit and annual bluegrass.
  • This was our first visit, and we arrived sceptical about anywhere with such an oversized reputation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well before the beginning of the global economic crisis, a Brazilian street seller was on his way to becoming a very famous entrepreneur in the country by doing just one thing: selling popcorn, with a personal touch. 36 year old Valdir Novaki used to work as an itinerant farm labourer, until he arrived in Curitiba, in 1988, where he started working as a newsagent, then as a car park driver. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller
  • He arrived at the solution by a simple process of deduction.
  • Emergency workers arrived at the scene to be confronted by the enormous size of the landslide and hundreds of homeless families. Times, Sunday Times
  • Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. 
  • Of the original twenty captive-bred maracanas that had arrived in Brazil, one had died and eight had been evacuated; this left eleven. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • The Ontario government, backed by other provincial governments, argued against the lower court rulings, saying the Metis existed as a community only after European settlers arrived in Canada.
  • He asked for his pencils the moment he arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • May will arrive on Friday morning.
  • The View from Taiwan: Orion antisub aircraft to arrive -- 5 years from now Orion antisub aircraft to arrive -- 5 years from now
  • The unprecedented remarks by CSIS Director Richard Fadden were broadcast late on Tuesday, a day before Chinese Premier Hu Jintao was due to arrive in Canada on a formal visit.
  • Record £9.5million striker Juan Pablo Angel only arrived after Christmas and has been a massive disappointment.
  • Every morning I'd check my pigeonhole in case the letter had finally arrived telling me that a distant relative had died and I was now the heir to a title and a vast estate.
  • The boys went off to play catch with a football as we set up lunch and then waited for the fireworks to arrive.
  • The cheque took 11 days to arrive and the letter blamed human error for the delay in sending a replacement. Times, Sunday Times
  • He found it difficult to hide his disappointment when she didn't arrive.
  • Peace will not arrive through politics or economic development alone, as crucial as these things are.
  • Last evening a gentleman arrived here from Providence, by whom we are favour'd with the following, fresh advices from the northern army.
  • The amount of packaging in which many toys arrive is aggravating and ridiculous. » Such a Cute Little Carbon Emitter Strocel.com
  • My biggest concern as I arrived at the locker was remembering the combination to a small safe for valuables.
  • When they arrived there, they found the old man practising his clarionet in the dolefullest manner in a corner of the room. Little Dorrit
  • Autumn has arrived with its frosty build-up of colours of russet and orange trees.
  • It was an extraordinary time for a young person like Alvin, black and a dancer, to arrive in New York.
  • She'll arrive in New York at noon.
  • A little later than usual, he arrived, freshly showered and a little flushed from exercise.
  • Thus, the study of the isacoustic lines strongly confirms the conclusions at which we have arrived above (p. 223) -- namely, that there were two distinct foci arranged in a north-west and south-east line, and that the impulse at the former focus occurred a few seconds earlier than that at the latter. [ A Study of Recent Earthquakes
  • In reed beds beside the lakes another summer visitor has just arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • Portia further gives Antonio news that three of his argosies have arrived safely, and gives Lorenzo the deed by which Shylock has made him his heir.
  • When my pudding arrived I was at first disappointed to see that the custard was just a decorative swirl.
  • When I arrived, I was standing outside a normal brick house, there were no witches passing by or broomsticks parked in the garden, so I felt brave enough to knock on the door, the door was answered by a lady not much older than me, I was in shock!
  • If I arrived at a job interview with unbrushed teeth and hair sticking through my panty hose, I'd get hired for not making an effort. Beauty
  • Cooper arrived, quivering with rage.
  • The train arrived at exactly 8 o'clock.
  • The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship which was then riding at anchor and waiting for its cargo.
  • Stunned gallery visitors watched as guards grabbed him until cops arrived to arrest him. The Sun
  • The decisive goal arrived against the run of play.
  • The true giants did not arrive until the middle of the Cretaceous period.
  • Local legend recalls that the day he came around with his samples was bad enough but the day the orders arrived at the factory was positively dangerous.
  • The burning hot summer arrived, this is the demonstration stature good season,the retreat wi nter sincere appearance, lets lithe, the individua lity, the fashion, the sex appeal, mature you sta rt from here! Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • The likelihood arrives the turn of life ah.
  • When I was asked planeside in Saigon or planeside in Honolulu or planeside at Andrews Air Base as I arrived, what I'd found, I was speaking not only to the American people; I was speaking to the enemy -- to the Chinese, to the Soviets and to the Viet Cong. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
  • Well, the "tumbril," as we called it, arrived each day for nearly a week, and we drove off gaily to the appointed spot and saturated ourselves in the characteristics of the land we were shortly to attack. Bullets & Billets
  • Unfortunately, Medusa chose just that moment to arrive with Stheno and Euryale. Aphrodite the Beauty
  • Like Sinclair, Tri-County is teaching more advanced skills to students who do arrive on campus better prepared.
  • Perhaps to the disappointment of the L.A Galaxy star's legion of female fans, the 36-year-old did not arrive wearing just a pair of briefs - but covered up in a casual combination of stonewash jeans and chunky, cream cardigan. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
  • Eventually we arrived at a black sand bay fringed with jungle.
  • The time has arrived for him to reconsider his position on Steffon Armitage. Times, Sunday Times
  • The inspectors strokes would arrive to examine your kit again. Times, Sunday Times
  • A wardrobe mistress arrives with my armour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thoas rules [8] the land, o'er barbarians, [Thoas,] who guiding his foot swift as the pinion, has arrived at this epithet [of Thoas, i.e. _the swift_] on account of his fleetness of foot. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
  • Mum used a mangle and a washboard so when the washing machine arrived it was a big moment.
  • The hoped-for economic recovery in Britain did not arrive.
  • There would be descending lockage the whole way, and the Lake Erie water would have continued in the Canal until it arrived at the Hudson!
  • I always rewashed the filmy blender when I arrived the next morning.
  • Soon, the thunderbolt arrived in the form of another news flash that legal battles could not be fought by anyone on matter relating to the emergency.
  • As soon as they arrived in the town they went out to explore.
  • Everyone else followed behind, and as a group we arrived five minutes early.
  • Actually, reminds me of some mental health "user-led" training I went on once, where the trainer arrived as "Dr Beverly Crusher" in full Star Trek uniform and proceeded to check us all out with her tri-corder. Free at Last... plus sex, pain, poles and Danger Girl
  • A wealthy, mysterious Englishman named Henry Philips arrived in the port and rapidly gained Tyndale's trust, and hence access to the Pointz household.
  • But when the Peking duck arrives, he at last focuses on the food and watches in admiration as the waiters carve the roasted bird.
  • The police arrived to keep watch on the mouth of the tunnel.
  • When the notion of Santa Claus arrived in Britain, the same ladies would dress up as the bearded gent to visit poor homes with a toy for each child.
  • 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.
  • A personal physician first tried to resuscitate Michael Jackson at his home before paramedics arrived.
  • The reporter arrives alertly , "Happy net " poll when initiate " can if there is sad net, you go?
  • 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).
  • When they arrived back at their home they discovered the source of the triggered alarm.
  • The television station was launched to 10m cable subscribers in parts of America last month and will arrive in New York - supreme home of the alpha mom - at the end of June.
  • Miss World organisers could not immediately explain the no-shows, saying only that they hoped the others would arrive before the pageant finale on December 7.
  • Fill in and return the claim form as soon as it arrives.
  • Nicola arrived to comfort her baby, mother and grandmother beside the wrecked car and lorry before the emergency services arrived.
  • In 1820, a canoe arrived at Maurua, about thirty miles west of Borabora, which had come from Rurutu, one of the Austral Islands. The Bontoc Igorot
  • 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.
  • Muslims, instead of being the recipients of more and yet more kinds of aid (that we do not extend to non-Muslims), are forced to start confronting what Islam itself has caused, and what might have been had the "gift of Islam" never arrived in the vast swath of territories that were conquered by the forces of Islam, containing many peoples who found that with Islam came the attempt at arabization. David Horowitz Freedom Center
  • The assumption that gender parity in all things is inconducive to sustainable propagation arrives at the footstep of the ideas in Steve Sailer's article "The Return of Patriarchy?". The Audacious Epigone
  • A trimmer / helmsman on board had only one thing on his mind when he arrived in Capetown at the end of leg one - romance.
  • I expect you to arrive at 7:30 on the dot.
  • But now the time has arrived. The Sun
  • He will arrive in Bradford on Avon hotfoot from Highgrove where he will have donned the garb of Father Christmas for the Prince of Wales's Christmas party.
  • Cynthia arrived, wearing a pair of blue oven mitts and carrying a large stew pot.
  • Fine pleasant weather - contd our journey at an early hour, and arrived at the new scow at the lower branch of the John Work's Journal: March 21 - May 14, 1825
  • When two men in full vintage tweed regalia arrived at the finish line on their tandem (a tandem! Times, Sunday Times
  • The day shift arrives [ arrive ] at eight o'clock.
  • When they arrived home about 30 minutes later, Suedhoff said the house was "engulfed" in flames. Lsj.com - News
  • He and his wife drove from Fort Wayne and arrived at the courthouse a few minutes before the forty-five second ceremony.
  • By the time we arrived around 1 p.m., though, even the greens were gone — but, unlike the Seattle markets, where eggs sell out post-haste, we still could have scored a basket of pastel beauties practically custom-laid for Easter. Vashon Farmers Market and La Boucherie
  • A party of itinerants travelling in around 24 vehicles arrived at the factory on Sunday evening.
  • I like to get everything done before the guests arrive and relax for a moment in the calm before the storm.
  • Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. 
  • The garlic soup was creamy and well flavoured, not too heavy or too light, though the croutons (pieces of toast) arrived several minutes late.
  • After pointing this out to the company concerned they kindly sent another batch which also arrived unlabelled so we ended up with ten mystery clematis to fit into our very small garden.
  • 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
  • This layer is not concerned with whether packets arrive at their destination error free the transport layer assumes that role. DPI: simplified and demystified
  • Phoenician art, which issued, as it would seem, originally from mere troglodytism, was, from the time when it arrived at the need of ornament, essentially an art of imitation. History of Phoenicia
  • Hopefully my curtains will arrive today and I can take them around to various stores to try to match sheers to them.
  • Please redirect any mail that arrives for me to my address in Ottawa.
  • The sirens screamed even louder as the ambulance had arrived.
  • He then had to watch in frustration as the leading four all bettered his time as the rain ceased just as suddenly as it had arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • When he ordered his men to leave this landing, they mutinied and could not leave before reinforcements arrived.
  • If the fish have got used to the sudden onset of winter that arrived unannounced last week, then some good sport can be expected from the roach population of the waters below the city.
  • It is of the utmost importance that you arrive on time.
  • He came of age during the Depression, arrived in Congress from Massachusetts in 1952 and came to power amid the plenty of the '60s and' 70s (he once boasted that he'd put money into an appropriations bill to study knock-knees). The Last Hurrah For Tip O'neill, 1912-1994
  • In emergency cases, nurses can advise staff remotely on how to treat patients before an ambulance arrives. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were struggling home yesterday and if the forecast rain arrives it will be a real slog up the hill today. The Sun
  • We arrived in fine style in a hired limousine.
  • They booked in at the moment they arrived at the office.
  • While waiting for help to arrive, the crew haggled with missionary priests for wine, rice and yams, and struggled to keep curious natives off the pontoons used for water landings.
  • The language is a wild mixture of vaquero-cowboy Spanglish and the King James Bible — you ' ll find words like " pulverulence " and " sudorific, " and one character says, without a shred of irony: " Lo, would you behold what has arrived? Southwestern Gothic
  • We arrived in Manhattan two days before the ceremony for some readings and other promotional appearances.
  • In the summer another six or eight had returned from the farm on Cap Tourmente, and eleven arrived in the shallop that so displeased Champlain. Champlain's Dream
  • Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance.
  • Kuyt escaped from Benoît Assou-Ekotto once to a flick-on from Carroll and set up a thwarted shooting opportunity from Charlie Adam as a result before the inevitable substitution arrived. Luis Suárez back for Liverpool but Dalglish starts with Andy Carroll

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