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arch

[ahrch] / ɑrtʃ /


NOUN
curve, curved structure
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Combined with Jemimah Rodrigues's century, it helped India secure a famous victory over their arch rivals.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Hathaway is arch and expressive, doing subtle things with her eyes and voice that no one else can.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

After each final, Whitley Bay celebrated in The Green Man pub just 15 minutes' walk from the famous Wembley arch.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

A flower arch, Roman columns and chandeliers decorate an underground photo studio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“With that delicate arch? Never a boar, Robert.”

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

Its three open-spandrel arches were made using Portland cement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Architect Peter Morris spent about a decade developing the homes, which feature sweeping arches and duck-egg blue metalwork.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Plans for a Potomac crossing date to before the Civil War, and various monumental arches were proposed in Washington during the late 19th century.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

Antoni Gaudí’s Basilica Sagrada Família contains familiar components of that style: a Latin Cross layout, Gothic arches, cloisters, representations of saints and apostles, rose windows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

He points out the sun-bleached wooden moon bridge, slats missing, that arches across the dried-up pool.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

“You’re invited to relax and entertain surrounded by a stately fireplace, regal archways and a row of leaded glass arched windows framing open-sky views,” the listing notes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Metres away, other photographers yelled instructions to ornately dressed young women who held their fingers in victory signs and arched their backs for the camera.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The old factory at 120 Jefferson Northeast, a sand-colored brick building with its distinctive arched entryway, had gone out of business, and quickly.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Neoclassical busts are cast in sand, marble and bronze and carved through with winding stairs, arched doors and regal columns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

He flexed his fingers and arched his back from side to side.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

A map of the routes with arrows arching across the country gave the operation its arachnid moniker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

The shrub has a cane growth habit, ideally with arching limbs from ground to flower-borne tips.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024

Early risers on California’s Central Coast and parts south may be treated to a brilliant streak of light arching across the sky Thursday morning, followed by a sonic boom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Rainmaker Hall is the central meeting space, created inside an old hangar that was once a sweatshop with high, arching beams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

No. Marigold tightened her bracelet more securely around her wrist and pressed on, stretching her toes to their tippy-tips and arching her arms above her head to figure out if her Talent was ballet dancing.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff




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