Read full poem →In quiet shafts of light through the high trees
Which, arching, make a roof above the walls
Changing from sun to shadow as each breeze
Dictionary Entry
To form into an arch shape
In a Sentence
“The cat arched its back”
Origin
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Common Phrases
over archingbranches arching. archingstems archingarching backarching body
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Poetry examples for “arching”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →As the Cori-nthian porticos,
The arching boughs unite between
The tolumns of the temple green.
Read full poem →Are the budding boughs
Arching high over
A cool green house:
Read full poem →That shakes and swees awhile, but still keeps straight;
While arching oxeye doubles with his weight.
Next on the cat-tail-grass with farther bound
Read full poem →Along the greensward uniformly pricks
Her pliant bending hazel's arching sticks :
While round-topt bush, or briar-entangled hedge.
Read full poem →So low for long, they never right themselves:
You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground,
Read full poem →As if no joy had ever seiz'd my breast
When from thy spout the streams did arching fly,-- 30
As if, infus'd, thou ne'er hadst known t' inspire
Read full poem →Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rock
Flings arching like a bridge;--that branchless ash,
Unsunn'd and damp, whose few poor yellow leaves
Read full poem →Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rock
Flings arching like a bridge; -- that branchless ash,
Unsunn'd and damp, whose few poor yellow leaves
Read full poem →In the grape-vine swung.
The Forest, arching low and wide
Gloried in its Indian bride.