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Example sentences for "campaigning"

Lexicographically close words:
campagnes; campaign; campaigned; campaigner; campaigners; campaigns; campanile; campaniles; campanili; campanulate
  1. His campaigning was not yet at an end, for in 1673 he was appointed by the stadtholder William III.

  2. About 1340 the king was overtaken by blindness, but he continued to lead an active life, successfully resisting the attacks of Louis and his allies, and campaigning in Lithuania.

  3. The king's troops which occupied Tiverton on 21 September on their way back, had doubtless suffered also, from the campaigning in wet fields and miry ways, and are known to have been discontented for want of pay.

  4. I went out into the yard, after pulling down my campaigning cap over my ears.

  5. For the only water which can be got for troops when campaigning is very often polluted, and the men get dysentery from drinking it, whereas this was necessarily quite pure.

  6. But the occasion supplies thoughts; and as a soldier accustomed to prompt brevity, he puts them down--quickly and briefly as a campaigning despatch.

  7. The drawback was that campaigning in Flanders depended upon the weather: a rainy season turned its flats into seas of mud, and the third quarter of 1917 was one of the wettest on record.

  8. The campaigning season was only about to begin; the Turks had decamped in disorganization towards Baghdad; and the temptation to follow proved irresistible.

  9. In my last letters I observed that from the commencement of campaigning I had not felt ill except from starvation.

  10. Campaigning has inured me to hardship, and it is quite immaterial to me whether I roll myself in my blanket and sleep upon the ground or anywhere else.

  11. He has toured Illinois and West Virginia in special trains, campaigning for temperance.

  12. It is gorgeous beyond that of [Illustration: A Capitan of Spahi] any other soldiery; and yet it is most suitable for campaigning after the Spahi fashion.

  13. The room on either side was filled by small tables, around which sat parties drinking, card-playing, singing or quarrelling as it might be, with a degree of energy and vociferation only campaigning can give an idea of.

  14. Merthyr, who was himself eating with a campaigning appetite.

  15. He is likely to recover, but his campaigning is doubtless over until some time in the future.

  16. Thoughts of her were last in his mind as he lay down to rest after a day's campaigning and the first to arouse him in the morning.

  17. It was his bold thought to assail Hooker and destroy him with all his superior forces, or at the very least to drive him back across the river and take into his own keeping the problem of where and how the campaigning of 1863 should be done.

  18. In the end, as we have seen, both armies fell back and fortified, and campaigning ended in the southwest for that season.

  19. Precious weeks of perfect campaigning weather were thus wasted, McClellan lying idly upon the north bank of the Potomac while Lee rested and reinforced his army near Winchester.

  20. Morgan and Negley were the active agents in this campaigning on the Federal side; Kirby Smith was the Confederate chieftain with John Morgan and N.

  21. Within a few days the concentration was complete, and Rosecrans was ready for active campaigning with a great army, inspirited by recent successes, strongly reinforced, effectively reorganized and full of hopeful determination.

  22. The Russian corps, under Commandant Alexis de Ganetzky and Colonel Prince Baratrion-Morgaff, was formed after all the men had been campaigning under Boer officers in Natal for several months.

  23. He too asked if you did not accompany me almost everywhere; so you see what an extended reputation for campaigning you have.

  24. I like campaigning with pack-mules much better than with wagons, leaving out the question of luxuries.

  25. His campaigning dress was so like that of an enlisted man, and his insignia of rank so unnoticeable, that the tongues ran on, indifferent to his presence.

  26. From that day to this I have never missed an opportunity when I was not campaigning of hearing him.

  27. By this time I had had about enough of campaigning of this fashion.

  28. You have not been campaigning for two or three years without finding out that the Persian money bags are the real weights that make the scales of fate go up and down.

  29. The last day of the year which had probably been the hardest and, as far as campaigning is concerned, the most eventful in the history of the Battalion, was passed amidst the peaceful surroundings of these villages untouched by war.

  30. You and North stated the terms of it, yourselves, when you were campaigning last election.

  31. And the pleasantry connected with Governor Lawrence North's custom in campaigning was frequently heard.

  32. Harry Symes proved an excellent servant on the line of march, and one might have thought he had been campaigning all his life, so smart and intelligent was he.

  33. I like these old weather-beaten sons of fortune, and enjoy their rough campaigning anecdotes.


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