Word Finder - arrive

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To reach; to get to a certain place.

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He arrived home for two days.

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To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.

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He had finally arrived on Broadway.

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To come; said of time.

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The time has arrived for us to depart.

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To happen or occur.

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To reach; to come to.

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To bring to shore.

We expect visitors to arrive soon.

The question as to the total number of slaves at Rome or in Italy is a very difficult one, and it is not, perhaps, possible to arrive with any degree of certainty at an approximate estimate.

Here help was expected to arrive from England, and the tide might yet have turned, for the Russian armies were gathering in the east.

She was exhausted, and morning would arrive all too soon.

Her son has been called from Denver and is to arrive tomorrow on the afternoon train.

I didn't expect you to arrive this way.

Last to arrive was Donald Ryland.

He then left for Boston and a flight that would arrive a few hours after Julie's.

If she left from Ashley, she would arrive in time to plant a garden at the ranch.

They should arrive there before the suns set, and I shortly after.

Orlov-Denisov, still waiting for the other columns to arrive, advanced no further.

An infantry regiment which had left Tarutino three thousand strong but now numbered only nine hundred was one of the first to arrive that night at its halting place--a village on the highroad.

This time, however, Bennigsen, with over 60,000 men in position and 15,000 Prussians expected to arrive next morning, had no desire to avoid a battle, and deployed for action, his front protected by great batteries of guns, many of them of heavy calibre, numbering some 200 in all.

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception.

From all sides adjutants continued to arrive at a gallop and as if by agreement all said the same thing.

Dean planned to telephone Fred directly from Willoughby's to make absolutely sure no inquisitive eavesdropper could arrive at the bar before he was securely in place.

We then arrive at the second order Volucres, which is divided into two " series."

As no transports could arrive, the men dispersed about the abandoned and deserted villages, searching for potatoes, but found few even of these.

The weekend before her guests were scheduled to arrive, they finally found the time to scout out a trail.

We arrive thus at the essential aim of geographical botany, which, as stated by Schimper, is an inquiry into the causes of differences existing among the various floras.

They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.

Yes, first I thought that we are driving along and imagining that we are going home, but that heaven knows where we are really going in the darkness, and that we shall arrive and suddenly find that we are not in Otradnoe, but in Fairyland.

All right, I'll call when we arrive.

Her mother was to arrive the next day and stay through the memorial service on the following Wednesday.

There she waited for Alex to arrive with Lori's sister.

Dierdirien will arrive soon and can help us remove any king unwilling to accept peace.

Military affairs in this period are dealt with under Napoleonic Campaigns; but it may be noted here that during the anxious days which Napoleon spent at the camp of Boulogne in the second and third weeks of August 1805, uncertain whether to risk all in an attack on England in case Villeneuve should arrive, or to turn the Grand Army against Austria, the only step which he took to avert a continental war was the despatch of General Duroc to Berlin to offer Hanover to Prussia on consideration of her framing a close alliance with France.

It was found impossible to arrive at an agreement.

We.re assigning quarters as soon as they arrive and providing a hot meal afterwards.

His first plan was to continue the work, already initiated by his predecessor Tourny, of making a fresh survey of the land (cadastre), in order to arrive at a juster assessment of the taille; he also obtained a large reduction in the contribution of the province.

Tiryns and Hissarlik, other communities of the early race began to arrive at civilization, but were naturally influenced by the more advanced culture of Crete, in proportion to their nearness of vicinity.

On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the morning greeting.

This arrangement makes no difference to the food-supply of the people, for dead meat continues to arrive at British ports in ever-increasing quantity.

The senses with their changing and inconsistent reports cannot cognize this unity; it is by thought alone that we can pass beyond the false appearances of sense and arrive at the knowledge of being, at the fundamental truth that "the All is One."

We advise students to use public transport or to arrive early.

As soon as you arrive home, plan on spending a few minutes petting your pet and giving him some attention.

The cafe's wait is long on the weekends, so arrive early.

The solution is to survive until reinforcements arrive from overseas.

And they are sending their armies south but may not arrive before several days.

When the trial of Servetus was in progress (1553), Calvin was anxious for Farel's presence, but he did not arrive till sentence had been passed.

From his writings we derive the impression of an amiable personality, who is honestly at pains to arrive at an understanding with his opponents.

Laurent tells us that the present government having found it absolutely impossible to arrive at even an approximate estimate of this " occult debt," recourse was had, in order to fix it, to the creditors themselves, and a short act of parliament was passed declaring all debts prescribed which should not be claimed by a fixed date.

In exchange for the subsistence of the French troops of occupation, a corresponding number of these new levies were moved to the south of France, where they commenced to arrive at.

But the Christian Democracy, which, starting in Belgium and France, had now extended its activity to Italy, Austria and Germany, and was striving to arrive at this solution, degenerated everywhere into a political party.

But Miss Sullivan did not arrive until the following March.

You will in the meanwhile have earned your fare, and arrive there some time tomorrow, or possibly this evening, if you are lucky enough to get a job in season.

I thought maybe a half hour or so before guests arrive.

It is therefore just as much the business of the zoogeographer, who wishes to arrive at the truth, to ascertain what groups of animals are wanting in any particular locality (altogether independently of its extent) as to determine those which are forthcoming there.

Such a riper analysis of the mystery of his own personality enabled him to arrive at a clearer conception of the idea of divine personality, " whose triunity has nothing potential or unrealized about it; whose triune elements are eternally actualized, by no outward influence, but from within; a Trinity in Unity."