arrows

present tense third-person singular of arrow

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Make the 35-minute drive out to Natick to visit Bosse, a state-of-the-art indoor facility with 21 pickleball courts, a golf simulator and darts lounge.
    Kim Foley MacKinnon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Lawrence Dow darts all over the Metroplex as a jack-of-all-trades, and Darren Lauber helps Charles manage the firehose of high school sports stories, results and stats.
    Jim Barnes August 22, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Kyle Schwarber overtakes Shohei Ohtani on the Great Race!
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Authorities want people to leave before seawater overtakes Highway 12, the main road connecting a long string of North Carolina communities.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • David speeds after her and catches up to the SUV where she was taken.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The new 10-episode season — its 14th — is streaming now on Hulu and catches up with the Hill family in a vastly different America.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The rate of change across devices, applications and connections outpaces what human teams can track or document.
    Pavel Bykov, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Orforglipron will also be easier to manufacture at scale, which is crucial as demand for obesity and diabetes injections outpaces supply.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Even more important, the depth of cooperation between Ukraine and NATO now far outstrips the level Putin worried about before the war, precisely because of Russia’s invasion.
    Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Local officials have prosecuted hundreds of people accused of being in the country illegally, taking a blistering pace that far outstrips recent years.
    Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This consistent, on-demand support enhances employee satisfaction and accelerates return-to-work rates.
    Anant Agarwal, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe a romance accelerates or ends suddenly.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But the 10 Year is aged in different casks—Seguin Moreau Icône barrels from California’s Napa Valley that were stored in one of the warmest areas of the distillery’s rickhouses for the majority of their maturation.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The Perseids are active every July and August as Earth barrels through the trail of dusty debris shed by the wandering comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When her pace slows and pulse quickens during the race, Kunisch will remember Uncle Kenny's enduring words — lyrics of a plainspoken poet.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Will having a car potentially aid you in making more money which then quickens your path toward purchasing a home?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Arrows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrows. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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