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Example sentences for "being carried"

  • At each corner of the frame is a small jointed leg, which can be hooked up when the cadge is being carried, and let down when it is to be deposited on the ground.

  • But when any hawk is being carried with a view to a flight the swivel will be detached from the jesses and the latter held tightly in the fingers of the left hand.

  • When the perch is being carried, it is simply grasped by the middle in one hand; and when it is desired to put it down, the four ends of the wire are rested on the ground, or pushed into the earth if it is soft enough.

  • M139) Side by side with this struggle another was being carried on, a struggle for the liberty of the subject against the tyranny and rapacity of the king.

  • We should remember that the Peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of "pacification" which began even before Munich, and which is being carried on under the new order of tyranny that seeks to spread over every continent today.

  • Industrial and commercial activities, being carried on for the most part by corporations, are taxed at a much higher rate than farming, which is carried on by individuals.

  • The greatest volume of freight traffic ever tendered is being carried at a speed never before attained and with satisfaction to the shippers.

  • The work of the Smaller War Plants Corporation is being carried on in peacetime by the Federal Loan Agency and the Department of Commerce.

  • These difficulties have, however, not proved insurmountable, and by various workers in various localities and countries culture-ripening is being carried on.

  • A metal screen in some measure takes its place, and holds back solid matter from being carried on to the beds.

  • Defn: The act of carrying, or state of being carried.

  • Defn: Capable of being carried by, or as by, post.

  • Defn: A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

  • To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

  • For fear of being carried away, we made ourselves fast to some stanchions near the pumps, so that we could reach the brakes, and worked away till we were both ready to drop.

  • The wind at last began to drop, and afraid of being carried to leeward, I was on the point of running up alongside when I heard a fearful roaring thundering sound.

  • A with a sheet of paper B fastened to it, the rollers R R' being carried in a rock shaft pivoted at X.

  • During the first three days after the body had been laid in the tower, it was thought to be in danger of being carried away by the devil.

  • Let us see, however, whether the analysis of the meaning of the name, that is, the breaking down of that meaning into several parts, admits of being carried farther.

  • Pegu, and the goods are there landed from the barks, being carried thence to Pegu in carts or wains drawn by oxen.

  • In the first place, came the queen of Martavan in a chair, her two sons and two daughters being carried in two other chairs.

  • The work is being carried on in connection with the propagation of other resistant stock, Chinese, Japanese, etc.

  • Experimental work is being carried on at Washington to test out the truth of this hypothesis, i.

  • While these important successes were being obtained on the southern side of the river, no less active and effectual operations were being carried on upon the opposite or northern side, against the citadel and town of Chinhae.

  • When there is a general movement of which all men approve, the regular way in which the attack is made upon it is to join in the approval and then get after the men and the methods by which the general proposition is being carried out.

  • The work is being carried on by various State Departments rather than by any single commission.

  • An examination of the list of field workers of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan throughout the United States reveals the fact that strong propaganda work is being carried on in cities where there is a large negro population.

  • The propaganda against the Jew is being carried on as viciously as against the Catholic.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being carried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being affected; being answered; being attached; being baffled; being borne; being buried; being concerned; being delivered; being discovered; being drawn; being formed; being good; being heard; being invited; being modified; being played; being possessed; being ready; being still; being sworn; being thus; being watched; being what; being willing; combining form; enchanted castle