Use winning in a sentence
Sentences ending with winning
- I suppose that which we all enjoy is the exercise of skill in winning. [4]
- But you want to win for the sake of winning. [4]
- This applied also to the Democratic party, on the rare occasions when it seemed to have an opportunity of winning. [9]
- He knew by the silence that followed his words, and the slow, steady look she gave him, that she was not won nor on the way to the winning. [11]
- When tea was over, however, and the bridge had begun, her spirits rose; or rather, a new and strange excitement took possession of her that was not wholly due to the novel and revolutionary experience of playing, for money--and winning. [9]
- The process was not very difficult this time, for the man's smile and voice and manner were persuasive and winning. [5]
- I can see her now, the dainty creature--with the big, blue, earnest eyes; and sweet, oh, so sweet and gentle and winning! [5]
- The chivalrous courtesy he showed to all ladies was wonderfully winning. [10]
- Fay, also, must have found that smile singularly winning. [13]
- There is a friendly something about the German character which is very winning. [5]
Short sentences using winning
- We are winning eternal celebrity! [5]
More example sentences with the word winning in them
- The trouble with you, my dear Hugh, is that you have never failed," she went on, "you've never had a good, hard fall, you've always been on the winning side, and you've never had the world against you. [9]
- His art, too, would be a comfort to him, and if he only had the chance of making his way in his career he would have no difficulty in winning Agatha. [10]
- Friend," he added, with the winning insistence that few found it possible to resist, "if all be well, and we go thither, wilt thou become the governor-general yonder? [11]
- Alert, gentle, smiling, winning young brown creature as ever was. [5]
- He is as winning as his own face. [5]
- Those lean Egyptians, who pushed past in silence and haranging their heads, were no doubt bent on carrying offerings to Osiris and Anubis--for the festival of the gods of death and resurrection coincided with the Nekysia--and on winning their favors by magical formulas and spells. [10]
- Such a little while ago I came to this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that casket for Mamma's name day and then going home. [2]
- I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. [5]
- Yet surely it was not his fault that Daphne's features bore the impress of that gentle, winning kindness which he himself and Soteles, imitating him, had often condemned as weak and characterless. [10]
- After a personal visit to St. Saviour's, this biggest creditor and financial potentate--M. Mornay--said that if Jean Jacques had been started right and trained right, he would have been a "general in the financial field, winning big battles. [11]
- He had given up hope of winning her heart or confidence by storm, and had followed his finer and better instincts-- had come to the point where he made no claims, and even in his own mind stood upon no rights. [11]
- There were but two things in which I could beat him--in music, and in all athletic exercises; while he was studying and disputing I was winning garlands in the palaestra. [10]
- Not a face to go wild about, but when you felt her character through it, a face very winning in its dark virgin purity. [4]
- Experience, he said to Charmian, proved that no man of any feeling could wholly resist the charm of her nature, and to him at least she had never seemed more winning than now. [10]
- For the first time he saw her weep, and her winning manner seemed to him equally touching, whether she yielded to anxious distress of mind or to joyous hopes. [10]
- This was partly through his winning and gentle ways, but mainly through the amazing familiarity with my books which his conversation showed. [5]
- How often had those bitter anguished words of his mother rung in her ears-- "So brilliant and unscrupulous, like yourself; but, oh, so sure of winning a great place in the world . [11]
- The repulse which this man, accustomed to success, had received from Barine had been hard to forget, yet he did not resign the hope of winning her. [10]
- For a man there is always present the chance of winning a vast fortune and the power that it brings; but it can seldom come to a woman except through marriage. [11]
- It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about. [5]
- His voice was the sweetest, the most winning and penetrating of any I ever heard; nothing like it have I listened to since. [6]
- Mr. Warner was the most undogmatic of idealists, the most winning of teachers. [4]
- Then there came the inspiration to write his poem on Sir John Franklin, and he had done so, winning the college prize for poetry. [11]
- Instead of winning the credit and commendation he had expected, he now found himself pursued by claims of considerable proportions. [5]
- We won, and that spirit of winning got into the blood. [9]
- Add to this that it is the first proof I have asked of his magnanimity, and clothe it all in such winning words as Peitho can lay upon your eloquent lips. [10]
- When we presently stood in the presence, in front of a crowd of glittering officers of the army, Joan greeted us with a winning smile, and said she appointed all of us to places in her household, for she wanted her old friends by her. [5]
- Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess' pretty face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. [2]
- There was something specially winning and lovable about her, and I have heard that this lady, my mother's oldest sister, possessed in her youth the same dazzling beauty. [10]
- There had been something remarkably winning in his compliments; but when she pleased her imperial lover, the acknowledgment was very different. [10]
- The woman of society was always devising plans for Irene's entertainment, and winning her confidence by a thousand evidences of interest and affection. [4]
- There is nothing so winning as a good voice. [4]
- With a smile she received the address, and, turning, handed it to Louis, smiling at him too with a winning duplicity, for which she might never have to ask forgiveness in this world or the next. [11]
- But she did see, nevertheless; and she knew she was winning her fight, too, and was glad to see him suffer as she had suffered. [5]
- Mother, you never saw such a winning little devil. [5]
- Much depended on Rostov's winning or losing on that seven of hearts. [2]
- There was no reason why he should risk his life without a chance of winning, so he put up his hands. [11]
- She is young, rather pretty modest and unpretending, and full of winning politeness. [5]
- He asked her questions about the country-side, of their neighbours, of the way they lived, all in an easy, unintrusive way, winning her confidence and provoking her candour. [11]
- With winning French politeness the officers merely opened and closed our satchels, declined to examine our passports, and sent us on our way. [5]
- He would have played his life against the treasury of a kingdom, and, winning it with loaded double sixes, have handed back the spoil as an unredeemable national debt. [11]
- Mr. Dulany was one of the presidents of the Jockey Club that year, and his horse winning the honours he presented her with his colours, scarlet and white, which she graciously wore. [9]
- Beside her stood old Jason, who could not give up his young master's cause for lost, and exposed himself once more to the arrows of Semestre's angry words, because he bitterly repented having irritated instead of winning her. [10]
- She was conscious of many a sin, and no one, save the high-priest, possessed the power of winning the favor of the gods for her, a dying woman. [10]
- True, he had not succeeded in winning her to return his tender love; but after he had closed his eyes she realized for the first time what a wealth of goodness and fidelity was buried with him and lost to her forever. [10]
- John Mackay has no family here but a pet monkey--a most affectionate and winning little devil. [5]
- All were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles would have made them. [2]
- Mary Taylor, twenty-three, modest, sweet, winning, and in character and person beautiful, was all in all to him. [5]
- Or was it merely that he had confidence in the winning character of his own qualities and was biding his time? [4]
- That seems to me the correct way, and I don't relinquish the hope of winning for it the approval of the greatest general and most tasteful connoisseur of life. [10]
- The old man looked dignified and honest; but Father Karnis was a well-meaning man, no doubt, and one of those who are wont to keep on the winning side. [10]
- What a dainty little figure she was, and how gentle and innocent, how winning and beautiful in the fresh bloom of her seventeen years! [5]
- When she at last appeared I was surprised, for I had never met a woman who combined with such rare beauty and queenly dignity so much winning amiability. [10]
- If, nevertheless, he insisted upon winning her, he must take her as she was, though the handsome young man would have had a good right to a heart full of love. [10]
- His outer man, in its proud patrician beauty and winning charm, even surpassed her loftiest expectation. [10]
- But it was in her bright and beautiful eyes, in her handsome features, and her winning voice, that he found his chief obstacle. [6]
- It tore its impetuous way through hostile forces, winning victory after victory, but still striding on and on, not halting to count results. [5]
- Now nothing prevented his wooing her, and finding her far more beautiful than memory had showed her, strengthened his intention of winning her. [10]
- Clara, is winning her way to success and distinction with sure and steady strides. [5]
- Why should I help a man to the means perhaps of winning all I have, unless I considered him my friend? [12]
- He would gladly have dropped the useless discussion, but Erasmus's heart was set upon winning his schoolmate to the doctrine which he believed with his whole soul. [10]
- He was tall, handsome, grave, of smooth, soft speech and courteous and winning manners. [5]
- He had brown hair, hazel eyes set wide apart, a broad but not high forehead, and a fresh winning face. [5]
- Mr. Bixby, who had, as we know, a confidential and winning manner, seated himself in a chair very close to Mr. Worthington--somewhat to that gentleman's alarm. [9]
- After that he grew sulky and vented his spleen on poor Tom, winning more money from him at billiards and picquet. [9]
- Round her were good souls who felt with and for her, many occupations for which she was well-fitted, and which suited her tastes, with ample opportunities of bestowing and winning love. [10]
- Alexander had made friends with the soldier's wife in his winning, lively way, and she was delighted to meet him again, and quite willing to escort his sister across the square, and hold her tongue about it. [10]
- But the truest friend and the swiftest horse Must ride that ride on a breakneck course; And with truest horse and swiftest friend, To the fast express was the winning end! [11]
- From the day following the burning of the convent the countess had given up her whim of winning Heinz Schorlin. [10]
- Yet he had failed himself, and all others had failed in winning her--why should this man succeed, if that was his purpose? [11]
- He has the faculty of learning--of thinking--of feeling--of winning all hearts, even mine. [10]
- Even into the face and bearing of the plain woman whose mind has grown, whose thoughts have been pure, whose heart has been expanded by good deeds or by constant affection, comes a beauty winning and satisfactory in the highest degree. [4]
- The pleasant, winning expression of the bearded lips remained unchanged, and more than once she had seen his eyes sparkle with a far warmer light than now, while he was thanking the portly woman for her cordial welcome. [10]
- Her fascinations were everywhere confessed a few years afterwards; and when I last met her, though she said she was a grandmother, I questioned her statement, for her winning looks and ways would still have made her admired in any company. [6]
- True, she opposed every statement hostile to the old beliefs; but her extremely expressive features soon betrayed to him that he was stirring her to reflect, shaking her opinions, and winning her to his side. [10]
- I wrote to encourage him in his good work, but I had let a mail intervene; so by the time my letter reached him he was already winning laurels as a Red Ribbon Howler. [5]
- Quilp, I have dreamed, three nights, of winning the same large sum, I never could dream that dream before, though I have often tried. [12]
- The winning expression died from the face of the other. [9]
- Nothing more winning could be imagined than the frank kindness, wholly untinged by condescending pride, of this powerful sovereign. [10]
- Philip in this case could not tell from Harry's story exactly how much encouragement Laura had given him, nor what hopes he might justly have of winning her. [5]
- When it yields--you can hold it," were his last words; but the citadel remained impregnable, though the besieger could bring into the field as allies a knightly, aristocratic bearing, an unsullied character, a handsome, manly figure, winning manners, and great wealth. [10]
- Snow had fallen, but none now lay upon the ground, and I saw a rare and winning earth. [11]
- She serves us better and more eagerly than many a man, and while I appreciate your daughter's beauty, she never tires of lauding the winning charm of her innocence. [10]
- I can readily believe that Number Five will outlive the Tutor, even if he is fortunate enough rather in winning his way into the fortress through gates that open to him of their own accord. [6]
- Winning, I shall begin again, and play a part in France which men shall speak of when I am done with all. [11]
- True, soon after Barbara, with winning tenderness, besought her forgiveness, and it was readily granted, but Frau Traut knew of no other expedient than to fix the first of November, which would come in a few days, for their return to Ratisbon. [10]
- The end comes as came the beginning, And shadows fail into the past; And the goal, is it not worth the winning, If it brings us but home at the last? [11]
- Gorgias had been appointed one of the directors of the enterprise, and the intellect, voice, and winning charm of Cleopatra had so enraptured him that he already fancied he saw the commencement of a new love which would be fatal to his regard for Helena. [10]
- General conversation followed, and the twins drifted about from group to group, talking easily and fluently and winning approval, compelling admiration and achieving favor from all. [5]
- She looked ill and suffering; a line of pain had settled about her lips, and there were always dark shades under her eyes; still, there was something firm and decisive in her voice, and her glance was anything rather than soft and winning. [10]
- Frequently Mrs. Temple and Mr. Riddle would play at cards there of an afternoon, and when that musical, unbelieving laugh of hers came floating over the wall, Nick would say:-- "Mamma is winning. [9]
- Honora thought winning an iron foundry suit a strange way to cover one's self with glory. [9]
- The voice had an insinuating quality, but it also had a measured force, a subterranean insistence, a winning tactfulness. [11]
- But now I am a farmer--a farmer up in Connecticut, and winning laurels. [5]
- And you are also embark in the glorious cause--Ah, I am happy," he added, embracing me with a winning glance. [9]
- There was something almost humanly winning and temptatious in it. [4]
- You know," she added, in her most winning manner, "you know that a woman can often get a vote when a man can't. [9]
- Presently Iberville, with a winning smile, ran an arm over his shoulder and added: "We cannot go without you, Dollier. [11]
- Perpetually fruitful--perpetually; for a property with his disposition will go on committing crimes and winning rewards. [5]
- For you bear a kind heart in your breast, and the sweet and winning spirit that charms away all hostilities and animosities, and makes of your enemy your friend and keeps him so. [5]
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