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Example sentences for "baling"

Lexicographically close words:
balefully; baler; bales; balete; balik; balis; balista; balk; balked; balking
  1. Applehead went grumblingly in search of some baling wire to wrap the tongue.

  2. Down the dry wash where Applehead had hunted for baling wire she went swiftly, with the straight-backed, free stride of the plainswoman who knows not the muscle-bondage of boned girdle.

  3. He couldn't find any old baling wire, though he had long been accustomed to tangling his feet in snarled bunches of it when he went forth in the dark after a high wind.

  4. But in proportion as the foundation was deepened, the rock was found to be much more hard and difficult to work, while the baling and pumping of water became much more troublesome.

  5. The sea ran exceedingly high, and we shipped water from stem to stern every time we settled in its trough, in such a way that the baling never ceased.

  6. Two of their number got into her, and commenced baling with their hats, while the others remained in the water, supporting themselves by the gunwales.

  7. This chute leads into a large bin or baling machine below, from which the material is carted away.

  8. White stock should be kept separate from colored and where the quantity will warrant the cost, all waste should be baled in a baling press.

  9. The sea still rose, and the fatigue of baling became very great.

  10. The sea flew over us with great force, and kept us baling with horror and anxiety.

  11. But before you start baling the boat, I'll ask you to note that the third water-breaker is stove, and it was the only full one.

  12. So drop you that, prompt, and start baling her.

  13. In the course of the night two of the pumps were for some time rendered useless, one, however was repaired, and we continued baling and pumping the remainder of the night and every effort was made to keep her afloat.

  14. The scheme of the topsail was now laid aside, and every soul fell to baling and pumping.

  15. In my despair, I commenced baling out the water with my hands; but I had not made half-a-dozen strokes before I felt that she was going down.

  16. I thought of baling her out, but I could find no vessel.

  17. Benedicto, who had been entrusted during the journey with the baling out of the canoe, was beginning to find his job too much for him--a job which he had volunteered to do at first when the canoe was not leaking.

  18. Then came the job of going back to fetch all the baggage and bring it down, baling the water out of the canoe, and starting off once more.

  19. There was poetry in the scene--frequently disturbed, perhaps, by the inconceivable oaths of the man to whom was entrusted the heavy task of baling out the water from the canoe, which leaked badly.

  20. The inhabitants were busy baling water from inside their dwellings.

  21. We had hardly finished baling the water out on resuming our course than, 1,500 m.

  22. I reminded him that when we were travelling on the river he had complained of baling the water out of the canoe and preferred to travel overland; now that we were travelling overland he had a new complaint to make.

  23. After the attempts at baling out the water had proved futile--as there was more coming in than it was possible to fling out--the people in resignation barricaded their doors and windows.

  24. The blacks, and all not immediately engaged in mending the pump, had been baling away all the time with buckets.

  25. The boat was very much disabled, and appeared to be sinking gradually, notwithstanding their efforts to keep her afloat, for they were now baling rapidly; but I thought it best to make sure of her, so once more loaded and fired.

  26. I saw three or four figures rouse themselves on board her, and recommence baling feebly; but their efforts were useless; she sank lower and lower, and at length rolled heavily bottom upwards, throwing her wounded crew into the water.

  27. The shell passed through her stern this time also, and exploded; there was a shrill scream from more than one agonised throat, and the baling and pulling ceased altogether; every man in her was wounded, if not killed outright.

  28. I thought to sweeten it by opening the place with a shovel, and baling a lot of the stagnant water out; but it was irreclaimable, and the horses could not drink it.

  29. In a crevice between two of these Jimmy showed us a small orifice, which we found, upon baling out, to contain only three buckets of a filthy black fluid that old Jimmy declared was water.

  30. As it was, they were kept hard at work baling with a tin scoop belonging to the punt, and fending off from the buoy.

  31. He was, at one time, constantly employed in baling the boat, and would often have given way but for her.

  32. We had an exciting time of it, baling out the water as fast as it ran in; for somehow, the drain running underneath our boarded house had got stopped.

  33. In a lively sea the blacks sit back, tilting up the stem to meet the coming wave, and then put their weight forward to ease it down, paddling, manoeuvring with the line and baling all the time.

  34. No one attending to baling her out, the water was rapidly gaining on her; its ingress being expedited by the shot-holes lately made.

  35. Had it not been for that, we should have remained bound and helpless; but in order to allow us to work at baling out, the pirates had set us free.

  36. Mr. Smith and myself in the meanwhile were baling away, and Ruston was striving with the steer oar to keep her head to sea, for the instant she got the least broadside on the waves broke over her and she filled again.

  37. Most of the hands were employed all the time in baling out the water, while Nettleship's whole attention was engaged in steering the boat, for he well knew that with the slightest want of care she would have filled in an instant.

  38. The men received his address with a faint cheer, and turned to again at the pumps, while those employed in baling passed the buckets to and fro with greater alacrity even than before.

  39. He went on baling till no more water could be thrown out, and the boat drifted slowly on with the tide.

  40. His orders were so sharp and fierce that I found myself obeying them directly, and went on baling while Bob whimpered, and Bigley kept on hectoring over us, as I ladled out a little water now and then.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.