arrived

past tense of arrive

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of arrived Bakkila skipped the brand’s optional white glove delivery, and her king-size mattress arrived in two heavy boxes with the latex layers packaged separately inside a zippered cover for assembly at home. — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026 Then-Prime Minister Tony Blair had just arrived in Washington for talks with President Bill Clinton. — Steve Hendrix The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026 Switches made from wide-bandgap semiconductors such as silicon carbide could handle far higher voltages than silicon, and the EV industry’s appetite for these materials began driving the cost down just as a hungrier customer arrived. — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Rubio, who arrived in the historic Silk Road city of Samarkand on Sunday night, met in the morning with the foreign ministers of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. — Reuters, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2026 Once the sheriff's office arrived, some investigators in hazmat suits lined the floor. — Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 More than a games console The original Atari 800XL arrived in 1983 with 64 KB of memory, a full-sized keyboard and dedicated graphics and sound chips. — New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026 On game day, the cheerleaders arrived five hours early for a full run-through of their routines. — Raymond Braun, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026 Officers arrived and found Gonzalez in handcuffs with a gunshot wound to his midsection, the department said in a statement last week. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrived
Verb
  • That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The absence of a living monarch on our money, or on our travel documents, was not an accident haphazardly arrived at but a declaration of equality meant to be flourished and displayed.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
  • China has stepped up cooperation with Southeast Asian nations to crack down on a vast industry that has flourished in the region in recent years to fleece people out of billions of dollars.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In September, every ward in Sylhet's 100-bed Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital, which is treating measles, appeared overwhelmed.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The migration of working-class and Hispanic voters toward Trump in 2024, which now appeared to be swinging back to the Democrats in the midterms, suggested an underlying instability.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Eventually, in 1914, Jo succeeded in publishing Vincent’s letters in an ambitious three-volume book, which today is considered one of the most revealing and important works of art history.
    — Joan Martelli, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Fo succeeded at making the reservation, although the entire ordeal surely took longer than if Van Horn had picked up the phone himself and talked to the karaoke bar himself.
    — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Chance had five punts land inside the Baylor 20-yard line, including two that landed inside the Bears’ 5-yard line.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Some artifacts found on the island indicate Earhart and Noonan’s plane may have landed there, including glass bottles from the 1930s and a woman’s makeup compact, the expedition said.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • There are countless shows and films from the likes of Imagine, Blumhouse, MRC, and others that make up the AEA that have thrived in the current ecosystem.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
  • He’s thrived while finally given a full workload for the first time, showing terrific vision and explosion as a receiver and runner.
    — Dalton Del Don, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Mystic, when his great, great, great- grandfather prospered in the shipping industry.
    — Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The original finders prospered, with George, Jim, and Charlie making about $1 million in gold, while word of their discovery spread.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026

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“Arrived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrived. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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