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Example sentences for "carrying"

Lexicographically close words:
carry; carryall; carrye; carryed; carryeth; carryings; cars; cart; carta; cartage
  1. It's properties of carrying sail, might even be enlarged, by the use of one or more out-riggers, as is done in various eastern countries.

  2. Machine, I would just indicate it's cover d e f g put on like the lid of a snuff-box, and carrying a case or tube f g, the use of which will be mentioned in a moment.

  3. The door spring now in use, is a barrel-spring, with an arm carrying a small roller which presses in a gutter-formed plate, screwed to the door.

  4. He is represented carrying a few ears of rice, and is symbolized by a snake guarding a bale of rice grain.

  5. The Boy on his part told him that he was carrying the goose to a christening-feast.

  6. But the lad was resolved on going, and nothing could prevent him from carrying out his purpose.

  7. After he had gone she came down again carrying a small hand-bag, 'phoned for a cab, drove to the Grand Central Station, boarded a 12.

  8. Ragged he was, with a split shirt front open to the wishbone; but the November breeze, carrying fine snowflakes, brought him only a grateful coolness.

  9. Do be nice and lengthy,' you said, and I am sure I am carrying out your wish.

  10. Richard came into the room that moment, and took possession of Tom, carrying him off to the garden and stable-yard, and trying to make the time pass in a less irksome manner.

  11. Where rivers are wide, with a swift current, they should always, if possible, be forded obliquely down stream, as the action of the water against the wagons assists very materially in carrying them across.

  12. Shortly after he dispatched a light one-horse cart, carrying 36 gallons of water; the horse and man were to drink at the hide and go on.

  13. No expedition should ever set out into the plains without being supplied with the means for carrying water, especially in an unknown region.

  14. As I have before remarked, the place of entering the river should be above the coming-out place on the opposite bank, as the current will then assist in carrying wagons and animals across.

  15. Several different methods are practiced in slinging and carrying fire-arms upon horseback.

  16. After a little practice the rider will be able to control it with his knees, and it will be found a very easy and convenient method of carrying it.

  17. Some of the frontier-men use a leathern sack for carrying water: this is porous, and allows the necessary evaporation without wetting.

  18. Many accidents have happened from carrying guns with the cock down upon the cap.

  19. This may be a convenient way of carrying the gun; I have never tried it.

  20. Carrying 117 pounds as lightly as a feather, Lieut.

  21. Fitzpatrick rode wide on the turn, carrying Blue Wing out, which enabled Ben Ali to take the rail.

  22. There it looked as any one of the first four might win, for Boola Boola was carrying the Camden colors with the speed of the wind and loomed up big and strong.

  23. Pebbles, also carrying the colors of the Eastern invasion, straining aching muscles, pursued the flying leader to the wire.

  24. A man in a blue blouse preceded them, carrying Tregellan's things.

  25. He rested a light hand on my arm, and we walked towards his lodging silently; the musician carrying his instrument in its sombre case, and shivering from time to time, a tribute to the keen spring night.

  26. No damage is to be done to the houses of former Catholics until further notice, and to ensure the carrying out of this order a guard is to be placed in them, and an inventory of their contents taken and sent to Marechal de Montrevel.

  27. Julien, who was carrying on the work of destruction with indefatigable vigour.

  28. Villas confessed that the conspirators had the intention of carrying off the duke and M.

  29. Carrying a sword and carbine proportioned to his size, the boy addressed the flying men.

  30. Captain Poul returned to Barre carrying with him his two heads and his three prisoners, and immediately reported to M.

  31. The shot missed the provost, merely burning a lock of his hair, but slightly wounded one of his servants, who was carrying a lantern.

  32. Having decided on a general plan, and agreed on a method of carrying on secret correspondence with each other, I went to Nimes to wait for the assistance which I had been promised from Turin, but which I never received.

  33. The Antelope fraternity first enters the square, preceded by a venerable priest carrying two bags filled with snakes.

  34. Carrying these helmets in one hand and the masks slung over our necks, we proceed towards the front.

  35. Now it is a familiar line of mud-hoppers carrying a load of dredged mud to some deep dumping-ground.

  36. A boat was lowered from the destroyer, and rowed over to us carrying a hawser.

  37. Carrying my hot lump of steel in my handkerchief I hurry over to the skeleton of the semi-erected hangar.

  38. We have been fulfilling and carrying out his predictions in coming here and since our arrival.

  39. He has given to us this command, and shall we, the sterner sex, submit to all the difficulties and trials entailed in carrying it out?

  40. The acting chief is the Vice-Chancellor, one of the heads of Colleges, who marches with the Bedel carrying the mace before him, and has been sometimes taken by strangers for the attendant of the Bedel.

  41. Prim, Olozaga, and the French party, against the Regent was, that instead of carrying Barcelona and other towns by storm, he fired upon them with muskets and with cannon.

  42. Auguste was still carrying out their instructions, and sowing distrust of England in the mind of Nicholas II.

  43. On the way I interrupted a man in uniform carrying an envelope in his hand.

  44. Do you mean to say that you didn't know you were carrying out the instructions of Wilhelm II.

  45. Wearing my pilot's dress, but carrying these and other papers in my pocket, I presented myself at Finkelstein's office, and asked to see him.

  46. It appears she had got out of him that he was carrying a paper of some kind, and so she said that unless he gave her this paper to keep till they reached Dalny or Port Arthur, she would not believe in him, nor have anything more to say to him.

  47. I shrugged my shoulders, pinched the burning end of the cigarette, which I retained in my mouth, and sauntered with an air of supreme indifference after the man who was carrying my bag.

  48. Many were arched over, for carrying the engines of war.

  49. Miller came to me and asked if I would like a job of carrying dispatches from there, either to Jacksonville or to Ashland, saying: "The Chronicle man has not found a man yet that he could trust the dispatches with.

  50. The reporter had told Mr. Miller that he would pay one hundred dollars for carrying the dispatch, and in case he was first to the office, he would also pay one hundred dollars more in addition to that.

  51. Among them were the three reporters, all well pleased with the time their bearers had made in carrying their dispatches, and that night we all had what in those days we used to term "a-way-up time.

  52. They did not walk in line, but ambled along of their own free will; some with loaves of bread or rolls strapped to their knapsacks, and one carrying a roast of beef under his arm.

  53. Two chambermaids entered the room, carrying between them a tin pan about two feet in diameter and six inches in depth.

  54. Such a method of carrying on an organized government seems incredible and, trivial as was the question at issue, a case such as this throws light on one of the causes of Spanish decadence.

  55. When, in 1706, Madrid was captured by the Allies under Galloway and Las Minas, the court fled to Burgos, carrying the Inquisition thither, but its stay was short and it soon returned to the capital.

  56. Pedro Juan Rejaule, a judge on the criminal side of the Audiencia, arrested him, taking away his weapon and carrying him to Dr.

  57. Those who remained in Fez built a great Jewry for themselves of houses of straw; one night it took fire, burning all their property and fifty or a hundred souls--after which came a pestilence, carrying off more than four thousand.

  58. This time the offender was the viceroy, the powerful Duke of Cardona, who had imprisoned a familiar for carrying a pistol and refusing to surrender it, and had arrested two servants of the receiver, fining one and discharging the other.

  59. Bull's perusal of the Horatian carpe diem is acute as that of the cattle in fat meads; he walks like lusty Autumn carrying his garner to drum on, for a sign of his diligent wisdom in seizing the day.

  60. At midnight the King and his family led a procession through the galleries of the palace, lighted by footmen carrying torches.

  61. Take it, Captain Hawksley," said Cleek, lifting it between his thumb and forefinger and carrying it to him.

  62. It's downright scandalous to be carrying on like that at such a time.

  63. From morning to night he was at her side, at her beck and call, doing nothing that was different from the doings of yesterday, save that at evening he locked the mongrel dog up in his room instead of carrying him about.

  64. What can you learn from this statement about the kind of business which the bank is carrying on, and its power to withstand a financial storm?

  65. Note any habits of friends that result in their carrying more or less money than others of the same income.

  66. What percentage of reserve is it carrying at the end of these operations?

  67. This helping consisted in marching proudly out from behind a screen of bushes, carrying three gay little May poles, decked with flowers and colored paper streamers.

  68. The others all retired into the next room and came back shortly, wrapped in raincoats and sou'westers, each one carrying a knobby package.

  69. Balancing peanuts on a knife blade and carrying them thus from one end of the room to the other is another way to execute the test.

  70. The name called was James Mott, and it was borne by a highly reputable drummer who had made sales for many years to houses carrying general merchandise, including that of Balfame & Cummack.

  71. Mrs. Cummack had run up ahead and was carrying two suitcases from the large closet to the bed as they entered.

  72. And is not Millet a sort of French Wordsworth who in a barbarous Breton dialect has told us in infinitely touching strains of the noble submission of the peasant's lot, his unending labours and the melancholy solitude of the country.

  73. The Salon is now like to a library of Latin verses composed by the Eton and Harrow masters and their pupils; the Champs de Mars like a costume ball at ElyseƩ Montmartre.

  74. The handling is woolly and unpleasant, but handling can be overlooked when a canvas exhales a deep sensation of life.

  75. Suddenly a shepherd passed driving before him a long flock of sheep, silhouetting with supple movement upon the water whitening under a grey sky at the end of April.

  76. And now, looking through the material deep into the heart of the thing, is it a paradox to say that No.

  77. The ordinary perception of the artistic value of a picture does not arise above Mr. Smith's.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carrying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aid; airlift; anticipating; armed; backing; bearing; bracing; burdened; carriage; carry; carrying; conveyance; expecting; freight; gravid; great; hauling; heavy; holding; maintenance; packing; parturient; portage; pregnant; reliance; shipment; shipping; subsidy; subvention; supporting; supportive; sustaining; sustenance; teeming; transit; translation; transmission; transport; transportation; transshipment; upkeep; waft


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carrying away; carrying capacity; carrying the