Use increasing in a sentence
Sentences starting with increasing
- Increasing his stake, which had begun at five francs and had risen at length to five louis, he still coaxed the sardonic deity. [11]
Sentences ending with increasing
- The pressure in this direction is still upon me, and is increasing. [7]
- At this time the population of the Territory was about twelve or fifteen thousand, and rapidly increasing. [5]
- In thoughtful minds the dread of what must inevitably come was increasing. [10]
- The number of ships passing through the canal is constantly increasing. [10]
- The sea was running high and the storm increasing. [5]
- True, the beautiful peace which he had enjoyed of late was over and, besides, anxiety for the dear ones in distant lands was constantly increasing. [10]
- The greatly increased mortality which began with our seventh decade went on steadily increasing. [6]
- Joshua was now here, now there, and the ranks of the enemy were already thinning, while the numbers of the Hebrews seemed increasing. [10]
- Petya rode beside Denisov, the pulsation of his body constantly increasing. [2]
- She progressed slowly, but finally accomplished something admirable; what Ulrich impetuously began had a showy, promising aspect, but in the execution the great idea shrivelled, and the work diminished in merit instead of increasing. [10]
Sentences containing increasing two or more times
- The fact is, we go on increasing our expenses for police, for criminal procedure, for jails and prisons, and we go on increasing the criminal class and those affiliated with it. [4]
- By the autumn of 1813 the number, ever increasing and increasing, exceeded what it had been in 1812. [2]
- Eddie was an increasing comfort, Georgie an increasing solicitude. [5]
- If nothing would be more speedily fatal to our plan of government than increasing centralization, nothing would be more hopeless in our development than increasing monotony, the certain end of which is mediocrity. [4]
More example sentences with the word increasing in them
- In fact, the young mother had waited from early dawn with increasing anxiety for her husband. [10]
- In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
- Now for some years the divergence of society and politics has been increasing at the capital. [4]
- Born old, one would, of course, inherit experience, so that wealth could be made to contribute to happiness, and each day, instead of lessening the natural powers and increasing infirmities, would bring new vigor and capacity of enjoyment. [4]
- The noble, simple-hearted woman who was so proud of her son's increasing renown, his mother, died long ago. [10]
- She had listened with increasing uneasiness to the youth who, as she knew, had been cheated. [10]
- He did this with increasing satisfaction, for though Coello's sketches possessed a certain hardness, they were boldly devised and pleased him. [10]
- Thus I listened with increasing fascination to these gentlemen in evening clothes calmly treating the United States as a melon patch that existed largely for the purpose of being divided up amongst a limited and favored number of persons. [9]
- Ledscha had listened with increasing disappointment. [10]
- He now gazed with eager observation down the path which, as the day approached, stood out with increasing clearness from the surrounding shades, and his heart began to beat faster as he perceived a figure approaching the well, with rapid steps. [10]
- As the day went on he enquired again and again for the bishop, with increasing impatience and irritation. [10]
- The gradually increasing weight of the brain and skull in man must have influenced the development of the supporting spinal column, more especially whilst he was becoming erect. [1]
- And meanwhile she was worn out with anxiety for her family, and with increasing fatigue. [10]
- Leicester, who now was playing the game as though it were a hazard for states and kingdoms, read the increasing trouble in her face; and waited confidently for the moment when in desperation she would lose her self- control and go to the Queen. [11]
- But the danger was increasing every moment, and, warm as was the parting, the last clasp of the hand and kiss swiftly followed the first words of greeting. [10]
- As the wind was every moment increasing, the skipper sheered away to allow plenty of sea-room between the boats. [4]
- Charmian's letter, too, was even better calculated to curb Dion's increasing desire to return home than the fisherman's warning. [10]
- Years of trial unknown to me had left an ennobling mark upon her features, increasing their power an hundred fold. [9]
- Now single shrill trumpet notes echoed from afar amid the trombones and the dull roll of the drums, the noise increasing every moment. [10]
- They climbed the trees, then flashed splendidly in and out of the vast and increasing volume of tumbling smoke, and I had to clap my hands and laugh and dance in my rapture, it was so new and strange and so wonderful and so beautiful! [5]
- The large addition to the regular army, in connection with the defection that has so considerably diminished the number of its officers, gives peculiar importance to his recommendation for increasing the corps of cadets to the greatest capacity of the Military Academy. [7]
- Involuntarily listening now to the firing, which had drawn nearer and was increasing in strength, Alpatych hurried to his inn. [2]
- If Germany continues to destroy shipping on the seas, if we are not able to supply our new armies and the Allied nations with food and other things, the increasing social ferment will paralyze the military operations of the Entente. [9]
- The newspaper is thus widening the language in use, and vastly increasing the number of words which enter into common talk. [4]
- What she learned through the neighbours of the increasing number of executions of obdurate heretics she deemed the wise measures of a devout and conscientious government. [10]
- He knew him thoroughly, and had watched his development with increasing warmth of sympathy, the more so as many a trait of character which he recognised in Heinz reminded him of his own nature and aspirations at his age. [10]
- The reference in this letter to shrinkage of his hand-writing with the increasing intensity of his interest, and the consequent addition of the number of words to the page, recalls another fact, noted by Mr. Duneka, viz. [5]
- Wolf listened to this explanation with increasing attention. [10]
- The securing of this circulation by the pledge of United States bonds, as therein suggested, would still further facilitate loans, by increasing the present and causing a future demand for such bonds. [7]
- Both silently feasted their eyes upon the scene opening with increasing magnificence before them. [10]
- As a consequence the workers in the field were increasing by degrees, and the reform was steadily spreading. [5]
- The people of the village, too, of whom there was not one but grew to have a fondness for poor Nell; even among them, there was the same feeling; a tenderness towards her--a compassionate regard for her, increasing every day. [12]
- On the second, the total amount may be increasing or diminishing. [3]
- Many have been the themes upon which writers and public speakers have dwelt with intense and increasing interest. [5]
- Ascertain from statistics the small proportion of the region which has yet been brought into cultivation, and also the large and rapidly increasing amount of products, and we shall be overwhelmed with the magnitude of the prospect presented. [7]
- Up and down the rugged mountain side I searched, with always increasing interest and always augmenting gratitude that I had come to Humboldt and come in time. [5]
- The vanguard of the mob, thrust on by increasing pressure from behind, tumbled backward the thin cordon of police, drew nearer and nearer the bayonets, while the soldiers grimly held their ground. [9]
- In nothing were the increasing wealth and extravagance of the period more shown than in apparel. [4]
- He knew that the fever was increasing, as it had done once before when he nearly lost his life in the red disease; but he was ashamed to own it and battled bravely against his pain. [10]
- The noise of the crowd was increasing, the raucous shouts were so loud that the three had to raise their voices. [11]
- Those who watch the criminal reports are alarmed by the fact that an increasing number of those arrested for felonies are discharged convicts. [4]
- I was increasing the chances against myself all the time, by feeling a secret bitterness against Lem for having attracted this fatal attention to me, but I could not help it--this sinful thought persisted in infesting my breast in spite of me. [5]
- The misfortune is that we who have attained it are but servants whose burdens grow heavier with the increasing number of those who obey us. [10]
- Venters noted, however, that the rider showed an increasing interest in Bess. [13]
- The clan was sufficient unto itself, satisfied with a moderate prosperity and a continually increasing number of descendants. [9]
- He carried this strain of conviction all through his syndicate letter, which he now took out of his desk and finished, with an increasing security of his opinions and a mounting severity in his judgments. [8]
- Then came the smiling fields of Chester, with their English green, and soon the county of Philadelphia itself, and the increasing signs of the approach to a great city. [5]
- In increasing excitement, she saw herself, in imagination, lowering the sheet of music, and the sovereign, deeply moved, holding out both hands to her. [10]
- With increasing anxiety, she attributed it to the indignation which overpowered him, yet he was only heated by the haste with which, accompanied by his future son-in-law's father, he had rushed here from the Frauenthor as fast as his feet would carry him. [10]
- They had started several hours ago, and she awaited their return with increasing impatience. [10]
- A curbstone had served her for a seat, and as she waited her eyes had closed, in spite of the increasing noise in the street. [10]
- She tried to seem very busy with her prayer-book and her responses, and unconscious that she was out of place, but I said to myself, "She is not succeeding--there is a distressed tremulousness in her voice which betrays increasing embarrassment. [5]
- It does not seem to me a sufficient gain in this situation that we are immensely increasing the amount of steel in the world, or that twenty more people are enabled on account of this to indulge in an unexampled, unintellectual luxury. [4]
- The scholar is said to be the torch-bearer, transmitting the increasing light from generation to generation, so that the feet of all, the humblest and the loveliest, may walk in the radiance and not stumble. [4]
- Sometimes Kasana's image rose before his eyes, increasing the fever of his over-heated blood, sometimes he recalled the counsel to become a warrior like his uncle. [10]
- No prince could revel in the blissful consciousness of increasing power, more fully than he. [10]
- No art is required, nor any selection, nor any ideality, only capacity for increasing the vacuous commonplace in life. [4]
- Now, too, she remembered for what purpose the sculptor was said to have lured Gula, the sailor's wife, and her own young sister Taus, to his studio, and in increasing excitement she drew the cloth also from the bust beside the Demeter. [10]
- Henrica did not remain in his debt, her eyes sparkled, and in the increasing pleasure of trying the power of her intellect against his, she sought to surpass every jest and repartee made by the Junker. [10]
- Meantime, snowballs had rained upon his body and head from all directions, increasing his fury; and as soon as Xaver no longer struggled he started up, exclaiming with glowing cheeks and upraised fists: "Wait, wait, you wicked fellows! [10]
- Then Lali had questioned Mackenzie and Colvin, for she had increasing shrewdness, and she began to feel her actual position. [11]
- The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth. [2]
- The Copper Rise property was mentioned among the other lands in the will in favor of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, and the latter had gone ahead improving them and increasing their output in spite of the repeated threats of the railroad to bring suit. [9]
- I do not pretend that I receive six hundred or even sixty letters a day, but I do receive a good many, and have told the public of the fact from time to time, under the pressure of their constantly increasing exertions. [6]
- But, from the point where Mr Codlin was charged with sleepiness, he had shown an increasing interest in the discussion: which now attained a very high pitch. [12]
- But the first plunderers were followed by a second and a third contingent, and with increasing numbers plundering became more and more difficult and assumed more definite forms. [2]
- With the doctor's permission, she had walked up and down her room several times, sat a longer time at the open window, relished her chicken, and when Maria entered, was seated in the softly-cushioned arm-chair, rejoicing in the consciousness of increasing strength. [10]
- Eda was deeply pained by Janet's increasing avoidance of her company, yet her heroine-worship persisted. [9]
- In fact, Praxilla owned a fine fortune, increasing daily under the care of Andreas, and she replied: "If the young couple behave so well that I do not rather choose to bestow my pittance on worthier heirs. [10]
- For many years our own government had permitted the squandering of these resources by adventurous capitalists; and gradually, as we became a rich industrial nation, these capitalists sought profitable investments for their increasing surplus in foreign lands. [9]
- We can put our fingers on the two great evils of life as it now is: the first is poverty; and the second is infirmity, which is the accompaniment of increasing years. [4]
- With increasing arrivals opportunity was offered for the study of character. [4]
- But while every one was most absorbed in gazing over the side, and the interest was momentarily increasing, it was observed with consternation that the vessel was adrift and the anchor-cable hanging limp from the bow. [5]
- But while every one was most absorbed in gazing over the side, and the interest was momentarily increasing, it was observed with consternation that the vessel was adrift and the anchor cable hanging limp from the bow. [5]
- The dilemmas attendant on the publication of the sisters' novels, under assumed names, were increasing upon them. [14]
- At the time of this writing he did not altogether lack the sympathy of the Street, and an increasing number of people were not sorry to see Mr. Mavick get the worst of it in repeated trials of strength. [4]
- As a sign of their anger the Immortals had sent the comet, that terrible star whose ominous splendor was increasing daily. [10]
- The growing responsibilities of taking care of the lonely ladies that came in increasing numbers to Salomon City from the effeter portions of the continent had at length compelled him to give up his congressional career. [9]
- One hundred miles of sun and fair weather, and then fifty miles of bitter, aching cold, with nights of peril from the increasing chill, so that Jim dared not sleep lest he should never wake again, but die benumbed and exhausted. [11]
- An increasing number of people read nothing except the newspapers. [4]
- Janet's increasing knowledge of its organization and processes only served to heighten her admiration for the confidence Ditmar had shown from the beginning. [9]
- The superficial foreign observer finds sameness in our different States, tiresome family likeness in our cities, hideous monotony in our villages, and a certain common atmosphere of life, which increasing facility of communication tends to increase. [4]
- Step by step, now more slowly, then more rapidly, but with increasing steadiness, the flag of the Union advanced from field to field toward the final consummation. [7]
- The evening brought no coolness, and when it was already quite dark, as her grandmother had not yet called her, Gorgo could no longer control her increasing anxiety, so, after knocking in vain at the door of the observatory, she went in. [10]
- And matters were no better when Ann, who of late had been free from her bad headache, came up to bed, to hide her increasing pain among the pillows. [10]
- She desired no new happiness, nay, she could not imagine that she would ever again find joy in anything save the heavenly gift which she expected with increasing fear, and yet glad hope. [10]
- It is the natural result of a diffused knowledge of human rights and of increasing intelligence. [4]
- The keen observer must have noticed the increasing number of commonplace, undiscriminating people of low intellectual taste in the United States. [4]
- The sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now increasing, seemed like someone's breathing. [2]
- In all this Mrs. Glow manifested a deep interest, and learned, by observing out of the corner of her eye, that Irene was in an agony of apprehension, which she tried to conceal under an increasing coolness of civility. [4]
- The impulse that moved his brush was no longer the divine pleasure in creation of former days, but dread of failure, and ardent, daily increasing love for Isabella. [10]
- Her husband had meanwhile become Agent of the Chippering Mill, and she strongly suspected that his prudent reticence on the state of his finances was the best indication of an increasing prosperity. [9]
- A growing ignorant mass in our body politic, inevitably cherishing bitterness of feeling, is an increasing peril to the public. [4]
- The wind forced many to bow their heads, and, wherever they turned their eyes, flags and clouds of dust were fluttering in the air, increasing the confusion. [10]
- Long was the list of these royalties, and they were a heavy and steadily increasing burden upon the treasury and a menace to the crown. [5]
- Meantime it grew lighter and lighter, and the charcoal-burner, with increasing anxiety, ever and anon raised his head, and glanced aside. [10]
- In the increasing light we can see the bold shores of the strait, and the square projection of Cape Porcupine below. [4]
- He wrote those letters, as we know, after he had piled his boxes and rolled his barrels into place; after he had added up the columns in his ledger and recorded, each week, the small but ever increasing deficit which he owed to Jethro Bass. [9]
- As my knowledge is constantly increasing, there is likely to be no end to these papers. [4]
- In Bavaria there is a man who performed so many great cures that he had to retire from his profession of stage-carpentering in order to meet the demand of his constantly increasing body of customers. [5]
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