Being unable to resolve upon any course at the moment, we retired, putting off the question till the morrow, when I went to see my mother, who was already up.
However, he being unable to gainsay so specious an argument, we got the king away.
For many days they ran on under bare poles, being unable to face it.
Vasco da Gama, irritated at being unable to punish the chief, put the pilot in irons to prevent his escape.
For two days the vessel remained in the greatest peril, short-handed as she was, being unable to return to her anchorage at Saint Mary's.
Though his lordship had hitherto been unsuccessful in his repeated applications for troops at Minorca, he continued still to offer new reasons why they ought to be sent.
The effect which this event, though not unsuspected, must have produced on his lordship's mind, is less difficult to be conceived, than expressed.
His lordship could offer nothing sufficiently substantial against such persuasive wisdom; and, being unablelonger to reason, he could no longer continue to resist.
Yet he always threw away the advantages which he gained, in following some chimerical scheme of further conquest, being unable to take proper measures for the present because of his eagerness for the future.
I awoke Jack, who started up in surprise, being unable at first to comprehend our situation.
I used often to wonder how poor Peterkin would have liked to be with us; and he sometimes expressed much regret at being unable to join us.
Being unable to sail above them, they held their course to the north; and taking a N.
Footnote 224: Mr Hately, being unable to rejoin his companions, was forced to land at Cape Passado in lat.
Being unable to pass to the north of these islands, they held their course S.
Being unable to subsist any longer in that bay, they set sail on the 18th October, and found a better bay about a league farther within the straits.
The Prince, however, who had been lulled into false security by the specious representations of Barbin, treated their caution with contempt, being unable to believe that Marie would venture to attempt any violence towards himself.
Being unable to prevent every thing, he does at least what he can: forced to send some reinforcements, he speedily withdraws them in a manner seemingly designed to render easy the attack on Fort Sumter and to discourage Major Anderson.
I nodded my head in token of assent, being unable at the moment to speak, and so shaken that perforce I leaned against the wall, my head sunk on my breast.
They hampered one another on the stairs, and fought in fetters, being unable to advance or retreat, to lunge with freedom, or give back without fear.
Being unable to suckle, it was fed first on diluted cow's milk.
Being unable to obtain any reliable information as to the probable size or shape of the object, I cautiously made several attempts to remove it through a slightly enlarged opening, but without success.
From the departure of my party, until their return, I spent a miserable time, being unable to leave the camp at all.
Pushkin, who had the bad habit of being unable to keep back what was in his mind.
Upon this, Agostino Fregoso, who had seized Serezana, being unableto defend it, gave the fortress to the Bank of St. Giorgio.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being unable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
