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Example sentences for "comings"

Lexicographically close words:
comics; comida; comin; coming; cominge; comis; comission; comitatu; comitatus; comite
  1. For Sandy, even when in after days he went a-courting, was noways partial to having many comings and goings with a basin of cold water.

  2. They were ill-mannered rampaging lowns with little sense, and I desired no comings and goings with them.

  3. I agree that he does seem to take more than a passing interest in my comings and goings.

  4. What do you mean that he seems to take an interest in your comings and goings?

  5. If he were to be taken at his neighbors' valuation, why was it that he watched her comings and goings from his notch in the hills?

  6. The goings and comings of his servants, the remarks that were made about him in the kitchen, the basket of fruit and vegetables brought every morning from the kitchen-garden to the pantry, were objects of continual investigation.

  7. Her attitudes are reproduced in the cushions of her couch, and one can follow her goings and comings between the mirror and the toilette table in the pattern of the carpet.

  8. On examination, we shall find that all the graces of the Spirit arise from faith, and all our sins and short-comings from unbelief.

  9. How has my heart been affected with my short-comings in obedience and duty?

  10. The court outside was full of comings and goings.

  11. Few eyes were there that did not pursue his every movement, few hearts that did not bound at his approach, few tongues that did not chronicle his daily comings and goings.

  12. For a week sometimes, these attacks heralded their comings with little jabs, like the pricks of an exploring needle.

  13. Zinie Shadd called after him to know if he had heard that voice from the sea yet, in his comings and goings.

  14. And the whole time there were comings and goings, a phantasmagoric array of eerie figures continually passed to and fro before my hazy eyes.

  15. The man who sat behind a pigeon-hole, and regulated the comings and goings, was for a moment absent.

  16. As a rule their comings and goings were discussed with perfect confidence, but on this occasion they both felt that there was intent in her silence as to her destination.

  17. As if I kept an account of Mark's comings and goings!

  18. It has nothing in the world to do with his robbery of you; and as for Sandy Flash, I wish to the Lord you'd get hold of him, yourself, instead of trying to make me accountable for his comings and goings!

  19. There was no neighborly electric road in Rhode Island in those days, and the comings and goings were fatiguing.

  20. In place of the long meditations on philosophy and metaphysics, we have brief notes of comings and goings, of speaking and preaching, writing and reading.

  21. The Comings of Age of Children All this inculcated adult docility, which wrecks every civilization as it is wrecking ours, is inhuman and unnatural.

  22. The busily trampling cohorts in sack-coats and derby hats were, from here, subdued by distance to an aesthetic inoffensiveness of mere ant-like comings and goings.

  23. A further factor in her temporary feeling of alienation from him was the mere physical fact that she saw him much less frequently and that he had nothing like his usual intimate knowledge of her comings and goings.

  24. How could a man hope to conceal his goings and comings and secret actions?

  25. The proceedings were unlike Randall, who in his goings and comings loved the domestic brass-band.

  26. We need there an agent who will keep us informed of the traffic of the ports, of the goings and comings of the vessels in order that our submersibles may know where to await them.

  27. The frou-frou of her skirts and the frequent little clashes that he had with her in her comings and goings, perturbed the apostle.

  28. Smoking there in his chair beside the dining-room window, rain the unrelenting threnody of the day, Nicholas, fed, closed his eyes to the rhythm of their comings and goings through the swinging door that led to the kitchen.

  29. Comings and goings on my ceiling until I couldn't sleep, not because they were so noisy, but because they were so soft.

  30. For a week, sometimes, these attacks heralded their comings with little jabs, like the pricks of an exploring needle.

  31. But only partially, for Seth has much else to do, or seems to have, for he has many comings and goings which take up time.

  32. But that any one could have slept on undisturbed by those piercing screams and by our own comings and goings seemed unbelievable.

  33. I knew how many and unexpected were the demands upon his time; and I always found a lively interest in watching the comings and goings at the station across the way--where, alas, the entrances far exceeded the exits!

  34. Pray produce the texts, for Ezekiel helps you nothing: he speaks only of the pattern of the house, the goings out, and comings in thereof.

  35. He was charitable in the extreme toward others for any laches in principle; always ready to find an excuse for the short-comings of others.

  36. His talents were indisputably of the first order, and, whatever may have been his short comings morally, none can say his political life was stained with selfishness or corruption.

  37. Emily knew most of the comings and goings of Alexina and her mother.

  38. She was surprised, for he never had seemed conscious even of her comings and goings.

  39. Those who still held by the ship were visited at all hours, and the comings and goings of the tempters were not even checked by the Mate.

  40. To a convenient wharf the gigs of each ship came every morning, and from then to untold hours of the night the jetty steps were well worn by comings and goings.

  41. For that reason parents and guardians should know all about a boy's comings and goings.


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