Use driving in a sentence
Sentences starting with driving
- Driving a horse out of this lot is too plain a proposition to be mistaken about; it is putting him on the other side of the fence. [7]
- Driving one day from his farm with his daughter, he stopped and looked long over his favorite prospect on the lake, and said, "I must write one more story, dear, about our little lake. [4]
- Driving the animal back, and following him, he watched his opportunity, and as Satan turned, reached his side and boldly seized his nostrils firmly with his hand. [10]
Sentences ending with driving
- The pleasantest hours were those of our afternoon drive in the Champs Elysees and the Bois de Boulogne,--or "the Boulogne Woods," as our American tailor's wife of the old time called the favorite place for driving. [6]
- But it took some fearful driving. [5]
- The reader may remember how my recollections started from their hiding-place when I came, in one of our excursions, upon the name of Lechmere, as belonging to the owner of a fine estate by or through which we were driving. [6]
- But we knew little of the power of Cape Breton driving. [4]
- On approaching Tarutino Kutuzov noticed cavalrymen leading their horses to water across the road along which he was driving. [2]
- They show the kind of trade the Science is driving. [5]
- Whom are you driving? [10]
- In my Austrian diary I find this: "In the fields I often see a woman and a cow harnessed to the plow, and a man driving. [5]
Short sentences using driving
- What are you driving at? [5]
- Angers was driving ahead. [11]
Sentences containing driving two or more times
- All sorts of people were coming and going, army officers and navy officers and citizens of states and territories, driving up and driving away. [9]
- It was driving gradually shoreward all the time, now; but whether it was driving fast enough to make the connection or not was the momentous question. [5]
More example sentences with the word driving in them
- But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
- I get what you're driving at, doctor. [9]
- She saw the young doctor driving towards them out of the covered bridge! [11]
- I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. [7]
- By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
- And Sally Grower's words, apropos of the woman in the flat, seemed but an energetic driving home of the severe lessons of his recent experiences. [9]
- I was driving with a friend, the other day, through a somewhat dreary stretch of country, where there seemed to be very little to attract notice or deserve remark. [6]
- I could have wished I had been driving in Hyde Park, where clowns and boors, with their carts and oxen, do not find admittance. [6]
- Out into the wild night, the pitchy darkness, the billowy snow, the driving storm, every soul leaped, with the consciousness that a moment lost now might bring destruction to us all. [5]
- I never was wholly awake till I saw you driving Krool into the street with the sjambok. [11]
- His face was white and set; his head was thrust forward, as though looking at something far ahead of him; the pony stallions he was driving were white with sweat, and he had an air of tragic helplessness and panic. [11]
- Like his horse, which turned its head and laid its ears back, he shrank from the driving rain and gazed anxiously before him. [2]
- First the subject, which must of itself have driving power, then the main character, which becomes a law working out its own destiny; and the subject in my own work has always been translatable into a phrase. [11]
- Then he asked where I was driving him. [6]
- One autumn day when I was a little lad of eight or nine, my grandfather and I were driving back from Whitehall in the big coach, when we spied a little maid of six by the Severn's bank, with her apron full of chestnuts. [9]
- All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
- Almost instantly we were shut up as in a fog, the driving snow was so thick. [5]
- From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. [2]
- This time she was on a great warship, in a storm which was driving towards a rocky shore. [11]
- Well--months afterward, I was driving through the streets of Munich in a cab with a German lady, one day, when she said: "There, that is Prince Ludwig and his wife, walking along there. [5]
- Only yesterday he was driving his guadriga out of the gate on the road to Marea, and now--here! [10]
- Tom and Weldon walked ahead, driving the two horses, followed by Cutcheon, his head dropped between his shoulders. [9]
- I see the wagons containing the viands of the royal household just driving away from the kitchen. [10]
- Before the approaching wagon came alongside, she knew from the grey and the darkbrown horses who was driving them, and she made a strong effort for composure. [11]
- We are getting used to driving right into the central court of the hotel, in the midst of a fragrant circle of vines and flowers, and in the midst also of parties of gentlemen sitting quietly reading the paper and smoking. [5]
- He took me up to my own room, and I heard him going out to wake Limbo to harness, and at last heard him driving away in our coach. [9]
- Afterward we walked up and down one of the most popular streets for some time, enjoying other people's comfort and wishing we could export some of it to our restless, driving, vitality-consuming marts at home. [5]
- During this conversation two men had been busily occupied, in front of the paraschites' hut, in driving piles into the earth, and stretching a torn linen cloth upon them. [10]
- He was driving toward Pierre in a covered gig, sitting beside a young surgeon, and on recognizing Pierre he told the Cossack who occupied the driver's seat to pull up. [2]
- When he got to where they were, he began unfolding his secret, and they listened moodily till at last they saw the "point" he was driving at, and then they set up a war-whoop of applause and said it was "splendid! [5]
- He was driving to the Yauza bridge where he had heard that Kutuzov was. [2]
- In driving down to the old city, to the place of business of the Barings, I found many streets little changed. [6]
- He was out to prevent his own son from driving himself into private life, and he would lose no trick in the game, if he could help it. [11]
- But I began to have a glimmering of what all these new fellows in the universities are driving at. [9]
- I'm so used to driving about at night, I never think of it," she answered. [9]
- It was half-past three when they drove up the avenue and deposited Mrs. Kame and Cecil Grainger at the long front of the Faunce house: and Brent, who had been driving, relinquished the wheel to the chauffeur and joined Honora in the tonneau. [9]
- 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. [2]
- Some think that this murder is a frenzied revolt against the criminal militarism which is impoverishing Europe and driving the starving poor mad. [5]
- It's as if there was an imp in him driving him on. [11]
- And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. [5]
- But he liked them; liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour, liked upsetting a driver or running down a pedestrian, and flying at full gallop through the Moscow streets. [2]
- Sophie Farcinelle saw them driving back together. [11]
- The something was the vision of a young woman in a brown linen suit seated in a runabout and driving a horse almost as handsome as Pepper. [9]
- Honora found in the very atmosphere a certain magic which she did not try to define, but to the enjoyment of which she abandoned herself; and in those first days after her arrival she took a sheer delight in driving about the island. [9]
- We soon reached the town of Nelson, and spent the most of the day there, visiting acquaintances and driving with them about the garden--the whole region is a garden, excepting the scene of the "Maungatapu Murders," of thirty years ago. [5]
- I count out the tailor, but not the others--they are all allowed a cent a day, and in driving times they get more--yes, up to a hundred and ten and even fifteen milrays a day. [5]
- But once in the street, this weakness suddenly vanished, was replaced by a sense of wrong that now took complete and furious possession of her, driving her like a gale at her back. [9]
- We drove about the steep hills and narrow, crooked streets of this old town during three hours, yesterday, in a sleigh, in a driving snow-storm. [5]
- One was driving the sheep into the ancient fold, while the other was taking down the bars that kept them out of the new pasture. [6]
- It is driving the sea northward. [10]
- May came, and the pools dried up, the orchards were pink and white, the birches and the maples were all yellow-green on the mountain sides against the dark pines, and Cynthia was driving the minister's gig to Brampton. [9]
- I didn't load the piece, and can't say what was in it; but if it was lead, you will find the bullet driving down those of the Quartermaster and Jasper, else is not my name Pathfinder. [5]
- John looks after the old gentleman driving off in state, with the odorous buffalo-robe and the new whip, and he thinks that is the sort of farming he would like to do. [4]
- It was at the moment, when, in his distraction, he had decided to walk back to Tralee, that Orlando, driving up the street, saw him. [11]
- The capitan settled the matter by driving the whole party into the corral, for the wild stallions would not leave the mares. [1]
- It swept across the isthmus in gusts, which followed one another more and more swiftly, driving before them dense clouds of yellow sand. [10]
- Over him hovered the ghost of Washington in warning attitude, and in the background a troop of shadowy soldiers in Continental uniform were limping with shoeless, bandaged feet through a driving snow-storm. [5]
- Such driving is the fashion on Cape Breton Island. [4]
- They had reached the far end of the Silverdale domain, and were driving along the shore of the lake that lay like a sapphire set amongst the green hills. [9]
- And driving about the country-side I was told by my fellow-farmers that it was the only rational human and valuable disease. [5]
- It was remorse that was driving him along the avenue; no room for any other thought yet, or feeling. [4]
- The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and his vanguard, driving off the Cossacks, crossed the Russian frontier, Alexander spent the evening at the entertainment given by his aides-de-camp at Bennigsen's country house. [2]
- It so happened that day after day went by without giving Philip anything more than passing glimpses of Evelyn, when she was driving with her mother or her governess. [4]
- There was no telegraph to Coniston in these days, and so Mr. Sam Price, with his horse in a lather, might have been seen driving with unseemly haste toward Brampton, where in due time he arrived. [9]
- When he had sufficiently recovered from his delight, he rose, and with his arms a-kimbo, achieved a kind of demon-dance round the kennel, just without the limits of the chain, driving the dog quite wild. [12]
- By a dexterous strength he caught the little gentleman up in his arms, and, driving straight on to the open door of the smithy, placed him inside, then blocked the passage with his own body. [11]
- When able to speak once more, still tortured by severe suffering, she exclaimed angrily: "No, I want neither driving nor stalking. [10]
- Young Jake Wheeler, son of the village spendthrift, was driving a lean white horse round in a ring: to the horse was attached a beam, and on the beam a huge round stone rolled on a circular oak platform. [9]
- He was driving slowly now along the sandy road, and with his hand on hers she simply could not think. [9]
- There is a sloping, shallow beach, very broad, of fine, hard sand, excellent for driving or for walking, extending unbroken three miles down to Cape May Point, which has hotels and cottages of its own, and lifesaving and signal stations. [4]
- Even his bent shoulders seemed to suggest driving power rather than the weight of years. [11]
- In that moment she saw him at the head of armies, from the South, driving the Yankee hordes northward and still northward until the roar of the lakes warns them of annihilation. [9]
- Leaving Ingolby's house, she had seen men from the ranches and farms and mines beyond Lebanon driving or riding into the town, as though to a fair or fete-day. [11]
- And the horses settled from hard, furious gallop into a long-stridng, driving run. [13]
- Mercury is duly set forth in a gorgeous equipage, driving four horses around the world at a furious pace; and the artist, by special instructions, had docked their tails. [9]
- To think of seeing her barouching about Rockland behind a pair of long-tailed bays and a coachman with a band on his hat, while she, Blanche Creamer, was driving herself about in a one-horse "carriage"! [6]
- Wilson's got a scheme for driving plain window glass panes out of the market by decorating it with greasy finger marks, and getting rich by selling it at famine prices to the crowned heads over in Europe to outfit their palaces with. [5]
- Beware, beware, I say, of driving me to extremities! [10]
- On this particular sakkia had been wont to sit all day a patient fellah, driving the blindfolded buffaloes in their turn. [11]
- Before the litters reached the little castle a gust of wind rose, driving large drops of rain, straw, and withered leaves-Barbara could not imagine whence they came in the month of May--into her face. [10]
- The wind was rapidly driving us toward the middle of the pond, and something cold and ticklish was seeping through the seats of our trousers. [9]
- There are big raindrops driving into my face too B-r-r! [10]
- Doltaire stopped and questioned her kindly, and in another minute he was driving the carter and another upstairs at the point of his sword. [11]
- He's been travelling pretty free, and he's got the notion he's driving, maybe. [8]
- But with the pressure of his purpose driving him forward, he did not conceal from Miss Woodburn, at least, that he was eager to get her apart from the rest for some reason. [8]
- Flung down the precipice and forced into this contracted space, it fumes and tosses and rages with vindictive fury, driving on in a passion that has almost a human quality in it. [4]
- A giant Irish policeman, who seemed in continual danger of a violent death, and wholly indifferent to it, stood between the car tracks and halted the rush from time to time, driving the people like sheep from one side to the other. [9]
- The driving a pirate from the track of commerce on the broad ocean, and the removing of a snag from its more narrow path in the Mississippi River, cannot, I think, be distinguished in principle. [7]
- Paaker, the chief pioneer, stood up in it, driving his handsome and fiery Syrian horses. [10]
- But the driving passion of her religion, and its call to save Mormons' lives, one life in particular, bore Jane Withersteen close to an infringement of her womanhood. [13]
- We were driving over the spot where, eighteen centuries ago, the Roman fleet used to ride at anchor. [4]
- In driving home over a wild tract of land called Munrimmon Moor his hat and wig blew off, and his servant got out of the gig and brought them to him. [6]
- It is driving out the heartburn in a most promising way. [5]
- Once she went out driving with Paulina in a covered carriage for the first time in her life. [10]
- My lady giving orders to her respectful servitors, and driving down the avenue in her luxurious turnout, is not at all the same person in feeling that she would be if dragged about in a dissolute-looking hack whose driver has the air of the stable. [4]
- He kept three or four horses, sometimes riding in the saddle, commonly driving in a sulky, pretty fast, and looking straight before him, so that people got out of the way of bowing to him as he passed on the road. [6]
- At this season one meets them on all the roads, driving from farm to farm in lumber wagons, carrying into the dull rural life their slang, and "Captain Jinks" songs, and shocking free manners. [4]
- So he went on, endless years, driving through space, some terrible intangible weight dragging at his heart, and all his body panting as it spun. [11]
- She is driving on the ice with ma'm'selle Lotbiniere and her brother Charles. [11]
- One day--it was on the 10th of July--we found ourselves driving through what seemed to be a gentleman's estate, an ample domain, well wooded and well kept. [6]
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