Use entering in a sentence
Sentences starting with entering
- Entering the room where Lepage sat alone, he said: "Lepage, the time has come for good-bye. [11]
- Entering the house they sat before the fire, holding their hands to the warmth from force of habit, though the night was not cold. [11]
- Entering the house, the Senator called a servant and said, "Tell Miss Laura that we are waiting to see her. [5]
- Entering the hall, she saw a glimmer of light above. [11]
- Entering the open sea. [5]
- Entering the oak-bound sanctum, he crossed it and took a seat by the window, merely nodding to Mr. Flint, who was dictating a letter. [9]
- Entering the drawing room, where the princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. [2]
- Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvitski and another adjutant having something to eat. [2]
- Entering the first opening, they landed on what proved to be the Island of Roanoke. [4]
- Entering with three of the faithful, we looked with profane eyes upon the consecrated furnishings. [5]
Sentences ending with entering
- Gaston and Brillon were just entering. [11]
- As he went through the hall other visitors were entering. [11]
- I propose in this lecture to show you some points of contact between our ignorance and our knowledge in several of the branches upon the study of which you are entering. [3]
- Once or twice Sherburne looked round as though he felt others present, and once Pierre looked out to the wide portals, as though he saw some one entering. [11]
- In all his schemes he found the thought of Margaret entering. [4]
- He rose, took Prince Andrew by the arm, and went to meet a tall, bald, fair man of about forty with a large open forehead and a long face of unusual and peculiar whiteness, who was just entering. [2]
- Ranulph was roused out of the spell Perce cast over him by seeing the British flag upon a building by the shore of the bay they were now entering. [11]
- Then he settled back again, drawing near to the chimney-wall, so that he should not be easily seen by anyone entering. [11]
Short sentences using entering
- They are entering the grounds. [11]
More example sentences with the word entering in them
- When I wrote you, I thought I had it; whereas I was only merely entering upon the initiatory difficulties of it. [5]
- Therefore the lawyer who had so zealously striven to expedite the blind man's entering into possession of his friend's inheritance would very willingly have permitted Myrtilus--doubtless an invalid--to continue to rest quietly among the dead. [10]
- The generation to which you, who are just entering the profession, belong, will make a vast stride forward, as I believe, in the direction of treatment by natural rather than violent agencies. [3]
- Now, entering into Weyrother's plan, Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. [2]
- Some militiamen who were entering the battery ran back. [2]
- Her father, the wealthy Krates, made every effort to keep her from entering the service of the Queen, but in vain. [10]
- Of them it was written, that they shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for they neither go in themselves, neither suffer them that are entering to go in. [9]
- Entering, the coffee was soon in the hand of the hardy soldier. [11]
- The town tax was so strictly enforced at that time at all the gates of Berlin that even hacks entering the city were stopped and searched for provisions of meat or bread--a search which was usually conducted in a cursory and courteous manner. [10]
- The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear. [10]
- But the maid was just entering with fresh water. [10]
- Think of it--it was by command of that Italian loafer yonder on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assembled there; and the kings and emperors that were entering the church from a side street were there by his will. [5]
- Thus, in the wards of Louis, at the Hospital of La Pitie, a vast number of patients in the last stages of consumption were constantly entering, to swell the mortality of that hospital. [3]
- Mr Swiveller, recovering very slowly from his illness, and entering into the receipt of his annuity, bought for the Marchioness a handsome stock of clothes, and put her to school forthwith, in redemption of the vow he had made upon his fevered bed. [12]
- He was entering upon the prime years of manhood; golden opportunities confronted him as, indeed, they confronted other men--but Paret had the foresight to take advantage of them. [9]
- Without entering directly upon the consideration of this much-talked-of tendency, I should like to notice the influence upon our present and probable future of the bounty, fertility, and extraordinary opportunities of this still new land. [4]
- Yet he insisted upon his purpose of not entering Alexandria again until he had resigned his office, and to do this at present was impossible, since he was bound just now, as if with chains, to the important frontier fortress. [10]
- And before entering upon her explorations she was in need of a guide. [9]
- I suppose about twenty minutes had gone when, as we were entering the garden again, we heard loud cries. [11]
- Sometimes he ventured to hope that he had made a mistake in estimating the direction which the vein should naturally take after crossing the valley and entering the hill. [5]
- But he failed to do so and felt awkward about entering on such an explanation. [2]
- Then he went through the town, looking neither to right nor left, and came to his own house, where the summer morning was already entering the open windows, though he had thought to find the place closed and dark. [11]
- It was as though the nation were entering into a senseless conspiracy to kill prosperity. [9]
- In spite of this, or rather because of it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmutz and, entering the house occupied by Kutuzov, asked for Bolkonski. [2]
- Without entering upon this question at length, I will suggest that the convict should, for his own sake, have the indeterminate sentence applied to him upon conviction of his first penal offense. [4]
- But of course there are some grand magazines which are known all the world over, and which no one should leave London without entering as a looker-on, if not as a purchaser. [6]
- Therefore he disliked them; yet he could not help occasionally entering their tent, for the leaders of the mutiny held their counsels there. [10]
- Before and behind them other visitors were entering, also talking in low tones and wearing ball dresses. [2]
- He obligingly pointed the way, and began to walk with us, entering into conversation. [4]
- On entering upon the twenty-fifth year of his incumbency in Marylebone, and the twenty-eighth of his ministry in the diocese of London, it was thought a good idea to have an "Evening Conversazione and Fete. [6]
- Fabvier, not entering the tent, remained at the entrance talking to some generals of his acquaintance. [2]
- On the day the prize was to be awarded the wish to see the work of the successful competitor drew him to Antwerp, and what was his surprise, on entering the hall, to hear his own name proclaimed as the victor's! [10]
- I waked to the opening of the dungeon door, to see Gabord entering with a torch and a tray that held my frugal breakfast. [11]
- A lady entering the next box shot a glance of feminine envy at Natasha. [2]
- I was entering the lists to either destroy knight-errantry or be its victim. [5]
- But now, as the horses approached the curb, their restive feet clattering on the hard pavement, in the darkened interior of the church she saw faces turned, and entering worshippers pausing in the doorway. [9]
- On the right the Guards were entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. [2]
- If, upon entering the ground-glass office, he found Eliphalet without the Colonel, Captain Lige would walk out again just as if the office were empty. [9]
- He entered through the gates with their stone pillars and drove up the avenue leading to the house as if he were entering an enchanted, sleeping castle. [2]
- Venters stubbornly resisted the entering into his mind of an insistent thought that, clearly realized, might have made it plain to him that he did not want to leave Surprise Valley at all. [13]
- When I heard the door open behind the bed's head without a preliminary knock, I supposed it was Jean coming to kiss me good morning, she being the only person who was used to entering without formalities. [5]
- Presently, free of the crowd and entering the Rue d'Egypte, he said to Ranulph: "I'm going alone; I don't need you. [11]
- His daughter was the "catch" of the region, and she may be already entering into immortality as the heroine of one of Auerbach's novels, for all I know. [5]
- But waiving all that, what business have you to be entering this house in this furtive and clandestine way, without ringing the burglar alarm? [5]
- I have supposed that, in entering upon this canvass, I stood generally upon these platforms. [7]
- The pilots saw that they would be backed up by the captains and the underwriters anyhow, and so they wisely refrained from entering into entangling alliances. [5]
- She was conscious that the servant was entering the room with a letter. [11]
- Before entering the tent he asked for some pieces of meat, and gave them with his own hand to his lions, who let him stroke them like tame cats. [10]
- On entering the tavern she had taken off the tweed coat, which Ditmar had carried and laid on a chair. [9]
- Entering, we were taken to the rear of the building, where, in an open courtyard, were a company of soldiers, some seats, and a table. [11]
- Entering, she was summoned to her mistress's room. [11]
- They had not spoken since first entering the house, when tears had shone in his eyes, and he had said: "You have safe--ah, you have safe me, and so I will do it yet by help bon Dieu--yes. [11]
- Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? [7]
- On entering the small settlement of Keedysville, a familiar face and figure blocked the way, like one of Bunyan's giants. [6]
- As they walked slowly on, past the now abandoned paper-mills and the other human impertinences, the elemental turmoil increased, and they seemed entering a world the foundations of which were broken up. [4]
- Speranski did not shift his eyes from one face to another as people involuntarily do on entering a large company and was in no hurry to speak. [2]
- On his entering, she drew back hastily; but he cried to her brightly: "Do not disturb yourself. [10]
- I had the sensation of an entering bullet in my throat, breast, brain. [5]
- At length he saw the horseman entering into the grove of palms before the door. [11]
- Ere entering the sanctuary she had imagined that she knew how the criminals whom she had sentenced to death must feel. [10]
- It was the same reverence for the beautiful that he had shown in the same way in his younger days on entering the wood, as Governor Rice has told us the story, given in an earlier chapter. [6]
- Any violations of said conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from any further privilege of entering the United States during the war for any purpose whatever. [7]
- He should meet Ruth unexpectedly, as she was walking alone from the school, perhaps, or entering the room where he was waiting for her, and she would cry "Oh! [5]
- If the Swiss renounced his intention of entering the monastery, there was nothing to prevent his wooing Eva. [10]
- His faithful companion's remark had fixed Dyck's mind against entering the army, and then, towards the end of the winter, a fateful thing happened. [11]
- Such were Mr Quilp's first proceedings on entering upon his new property. [12]
- Before analyzing the properties of manure, before entering into the debit and credit (as he ironically called it), he found out how many cattle the peasants had and increased the number by all possible means. [2]
- When we had proceeded some yards and were entering darkness, we turned about and had a dainty sunlit picture of distant woods and heights framed in the strong arch of the tunnel and seen through the tender blue radiance of the tunnel's atmosphere. [5]
- Elephant been here, plastered over with circus-bills, any broke up a revival, striking down and damaging many who were on the point of entering upon a better life. [5]
- Muffled figures were passing and repassing unconcernedly, some entering the houses, others coming out, and a handsome coach, without arms and with a footman in plain livery, lumbered along and stopped farther on. [9]
- Then he passed on to his own room, and entering, sat down before the open window, and peacefully drank in the glory of a new world. [11]
- Ameni was entering on his fiftieth year; his figure was tall, and had escaped altogether the stoutness to which at that age the Oriental is liable. [10]
- Rostov and Ilyin, on entering the room, were welcomed with merry shouts and laughter. [2]
- He had seen old Selamlik Pasha, who had lent the Khedive much money, entering the palace as he left with Kingsley Bey thirty-six hours before. [11]
- On entering one of these, he perceived Mr. Lincoln sprawled (he could think of no other word to fit the attitude) on a seat next the window, and next him was Mr. Medill of the Press and Tribune. [9]
- He had heard of the treachery of the fleet while entering a hired boat with the freedman in the harbour of Eunostus, Pyrrhus's having been detained with the other craft before the Temple of Poseidon. [10]
- The invading hosts of the South are entering without opposition. [4]
- He caught sight of the Celebrity's back between the trees, then he looked at the cat-boat entering the cove, a man in the stern preparing to pull in the tender. [9]
- The last part of that famous roll-call was conducted so quietly that a stranger entering the House would have suspected nothing unusual. [9]
- Opening the door of his room, he saw the maid entering to Jasmine with a gown over her arm. [11]
- Entering the shadow of a tall building opposite the dwelling, he assured himself that the street was entirely empty, and then, drawing the aching arm from the doublet, he examined the wound as well as the dim light would permit. [10]
- Presently, seeing a number of people entering the hall, he made for the staircase, and went hastily up. [11]
- They were challenged nowhere, and the surgeon's servant, entering a side door of the palace, led her hastily through gloomy halls and passages where they met no one, though once in a dark corridor some one brushed against her. [11]
- There had been no breaks in the walls, no side canyons entering this one where the rustlers' tracks and the cattle trail had guided him, and, therefore, he could not be wrong. [13]
- This, then, is my view of scientific training as conducted in courses such as you are entering on. [3]
- I'm entering on my last reform--I know it--yes, and I'll win; but after that, if I ever slip again I'm gone. [5]
- But on entering Moscow he suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostov, who was sitting beside him, by the hand. [2]
- Many of these miserable men had passed forty years in this place, but most died soon, overcome by the hard work and the fearful extremes of heat and cold to which they were exposed on entering and leaving the mine. [10]
- He had not met Iberville since his capture, but now, on entering the prison, he saw his enemy not a dozen paces from the door, pale and stern. [11]
- As in her mental maze she sat panting her way to enlightenment, she saw Guida's boat entering the little harbour. [11]
- It seemed to me that his object in entering the Brotherhood was merely to be intimate and in favor with members of our lodge. [2]
- On entering the library he saw what turned the course of his life. [11]
- True, she often let days elapse without entering it; but if anything went wrong and her assistance was desirable or necessary in serious cases, she remained there until late at night, or even until the following morning. [10]
- The comfort of leaving same things to the imagination was impressed upon our travelers when they left the narrow-gauge railway at the mountain station, and identified themselves with other tourists by entering a two-horse wagon to be dragged wearily up the hill through the woods. [4]
- On Michel de la Foret entering the presence the Queen's attention had become riveted. [11]
- Margaret heard the key in the door, heard his hasty step in the hall, heard him call, as he always did on entering, "Margaret! [4]
- This theory has kept me from entering the discussion, whether the substructions in the cliff under the Poggio Syracuse, a royal villa, are temples of the Sirens, or caves of Ulysses. [4]
- When Carnac saw Junia she was entering the dining-room with flowers and fruit, and he recalled the last time they met, when she had thrust the farewell bouquet of flowers into his hand. [11]
- Not only is it useless, but it is sometimes the cause of death, of which fact I have lately heard two instances: this is due to small hard bodies, such as seeds, entering the passage, and causing inflammation. [1]
- Nature has girded it on three sides with protecting walls which keep the wind from entering the valley, and to this, and the delicious, crystal-clear water which flows from the mountains into the pumps, its surprising healthfulness is doubtless due. [10]
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