Synonym: arc, arch, archway, condescending, curve, patronising, patronizing. Similar words: march, arched, search, starch, monarch, archive, archaic, parched. Meaning: [ɑːtʃ] n. 1. a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening 2. a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet) 3. a passageway under a curved masonry construction 4. (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it. v. form an arch or curve. adj. 1. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension 2. expert in skulduggery.
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61. Inside, the transept opens behind a triumphal arch which frames the apse with its altar.
62. This, in turn became a basic geometry for the pointed gothic arch.
63. From above the arch seemed like the outer surface of a dome, with mostly blue and green bands of light.
64. A fine south doorway has some strange looking beak heads in the richly moulded arch.
65. When the adventurers get within 48 yards of the arch, three Daemonettes appear and attack them.
66. His soulless eyes are narrowed and sullen, and his arch goatee recalls an amoral Transylvanian count.
67. Across the River Esk is a whale's jawbone arch, a reminder of the town's maritime history.
68. She heard the coach rattle out through the arch that led to the stables.
69. Time and again he had to turn his nose up into the arch of the drain to keep from drowning.
70. Stella tiptoed from the proscenium arch,(www.Sentencedict.com) shielding her eyes from the glare of the footlights.
71. Joe Longthorne pops his head round the proscenium arch on the way to his dressing room.
72. The tyre tread does not protrude beyond the wheel arch, but the side wall does noticeably.
73. The Gardiner entrance to Yellowstone -- the demarcation between civilization and wildness -- is an arch without a door.
74. You will note that the triumphal arch meets the traveller straight off the Charles Bridge.
75. I focus for a moment on one arch carved into the Redwall limestone.
76. Jagged cracks cut across the thick glass arch over the main entryway.
77. The holder of the office should receive a small annual stipend and a grace-and-favour apartment in Admiralty Arch.
78. The birds rubbed shoulders with Danny De Vito - who plays Batmans arch villain the penguin.
79. I thought the great central arch of two tree trunks looked like our Blessed Lord's arms holding up the whole Church.
80. The triumphal arch or, as it was earlier called the monumental arch[sentencedict.com], is the most typical of all the forms.
81. The garlands that swathed the proscenium arch took the audience right on to the stage - in spirit.
82. But eventually he found one that was almost empty with tall arch windows and broken tiles about the floor.
83. He was right, in the arch sense that he meant it, as a means of chiding overanxious environmentalists.
84. I drove the car under an arch leading to another wing of the motel and parked in front of my own room.
85. Try to keep your body upright, but slightly tilting forward so you do not arch your back.
86. The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower.
87. The arch spandrels are decorated by figures of winged victory and personifications of rivers.
88. This bridge was a high brick arch viaduct, well clear of the tramway.
89. Both of these stem from the original adoption of the pointed arch.
90. This is a larger block set between the arch and the capital to provide a broader supporting top for the arcade above.
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