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Example sentences for "detesting"

Lexicographically close words:
detestable; detestably; detestation; deteste; detested; detests; deth; dethe; dethrone; dethroned
  1. They died (say the Protestants) in the faith of Jesus Christ, and detesting the errors of the Papists.

  2. She seems attentive to their pleaded vows, Her heart detesting what her ear allows.

  3. Retz, Fouquet, Pomponne) in disgrace and detesting their persecutors, seeking the favor of court for her children.

  4. Detesting all the statesman kind, Contemning courts, at courts unseen, Refused the visits of a queen.

  5. Speculatively, she had held Margaret Naylor in the highest esteem; actually, she found herself detesting her with all her might.

  6. For whence was that dream whereby Thou comfortedst her; so that she allowed me to live with her, and to eat at the same table in the house, which she had begun to shrink from, abhorring and detesting the blasphemies of my error?

  7. But to be without praise, and therein essay our powers, must we live ill, yea so abandonedly and atrociously, that no one should know without detesting us?

  8. Having been lovers, is that a reason for detesting each other when we cease those relations?

  9. This would be a solution of the problem, that she was a girl of extraordinary inward energy, who, both aware of her mother's intrigues and detesting them with an equal hatred, had planned to precipitate the two men upon each other.

  10. Detesting riches, now in woods he lives, And rural dales; with Pan, who still resorts To mountain caverns.

  11. She died detesting herself, shrinking at her own body, her own loathsome body that she gave to another man!

  12. Ethel was not even curious as to his reasons for avoiding the Marlow house; detesting May cordially, she found it quite natural that Jimmy should prefer to go his own way.

  13. He seems by it to ascribe sense to the element, by which he discovers the finger of God visibly detesting the obstinacy of the undertaking, and a renewal of the eruption so often, till it overcame the rashness of the most obstinate.

  14. But whate'er English to the bless'd shall go, And the fourth Harry or first Orange meet; Find him disowning of a Bourbon foe, And him detesting a Batavian fleet.

  15. One may interpret it differently," said Perior, detesting himself.

  16. But the Sabines, detesting her treachery, or not disposed to gratify her avarice, chose to understand, that her request related to their bucklers, and flung them upon her in such numbers as to kill her.

  17. But whate'er English to the blessed shall go, And the fourth Henry or first Orange meet, Find him disowning of a Bourbon foe, And him detesting a Batavian fleet.

  18. But whate'er English to the blessed shall go, And the fourth Harry or first Orange meet; Find him disowning of a Bourbon foe, And him detesting a Batavian fleet.


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