Sentence examples for arrested time from inspiring English sources

The phrase "arrested time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the concept of time being halted or suspended, often in a metaphorical or philosophical sense.
Example: "In the painting, the artist captured a moment of arrested time, where the subjects seemed frozen in their emotions."
Alternatives: "stopped time" or "frozen time".

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He was arrested time and again by the same officer, but never charged.

The ambience at Umaid Bhawan is distinctly one of arrested time.

In the years before 1963 he was arrested time and again — 30 to 40 times by his count — on charges aimed at impeding peaceful protests.

In a busy neighborhood that couldn't afford to leave things as they were, it is a small, meticulous patch of arrested time.

So here he uses the Grundy's collection of paintings, permanently surrounded by an eclectic mix of Victorian furniture, ceramics and trinkets, as source material for the construction of an imaginary museum of arrested time.

The result, says the Appleseed report, is that "school-to-prison pipeline" in which a high proportion of children who receive tickets and end up in front of a court are arrested time and again because they are then marked out as troublemakers or find their future blighted by a criminal record.

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Was he trying to arrest time, was he creating this timeless zone in this house?

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Hemodynamic changes, arrest times, and total lethal dose of bupivacaine are presented in Table  2.

They'd been hospitalized 10 times, arrested numerous times for acting out of control.

He sued the city after he was arrested several times; the charges were dropped each time.

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