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Example sentences for "dispensing"

Lexicographically close words:
dispense; dispensed; dispenser; dispensers; dispenses; dispeopled; dispersal; disperse; dispersed; dispersedly
  1. In dispensing charity, many valuable acquisitions may be gained.

  2. Experience alone is incapable of explaining universal and necessary principles, and also incapable of dispensing with them in order to arrive at the knowledge of the sensible world.

  3. Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine, and more to employ a means of dispensing with the beam in converting the libratory into a rotatory motion, were made.

  4. I did mention to their manager that I was in want of some one to do a bit of rough dispensing and keep this place tidy.

  5. Perhaps the west-country custom of dispensing with the neuter pronoun and speaking of all inanimate creatures as if they were persons, made his solicitude for their welfare more noticeable.

  6. Experiments have been made from time to time with the view of producing transparent ice from distilled water, and so dispensing with agitation.

  7. In these mines a gutter is made in the inclined plane which carries off the water, thus dispensing with the necessity of a pump and the requisites to operate it.

  8. The friend looked infinitely relieved by the prospect of dispensing with atoms.

  9. A striking personal contrast confronted him, in the face of the lady who was dispensing the hospitalities of the table.

  10. The problem involves the dispensing of printing the ballots, the prevention of fraudulent deposition of ballots, the automatic correct counting of the same, and a display of the result as soon as the balloting is closed.

  11. He departed with the same grimaces, bearing himself with dignity and dispensing blessings all about him.

  12. To be sure, his recipe has one disadvantage: while dispensing happiness it destroys people.

  13. While her hand thus nearly touched the helm of state, it was busy as ever in dispensing private charities; and it was about this time also that she founded an establishment at Rueil which was the origin of "Saint-Cyr.

  14. But my eyes went back again and again to the group by the doorway, where Dolly was holding court and dispensing justice, and perchance injustice.

  15. We were beginning to perceive that charity did not consist in dispensing largesse after making a fortune at the expense of one's fellow-men; that there was something still wrong in a government that permits it.

  16. His renunciation of the dispensing power, 547.

  17. He therefore considered the Stamp Act as a nullity, as a document of no more validity than Charles's writ of ship-money, or James's proclamation dispensing with the penal laws.

  18. Next appeared the mock pope, dispensing blessings with his right hand, reaching straw to the donkey with his left, and distorting his painted face into all sorts of farcical grimaces.

  19. Nothing could have been more generous than this dispensing of patronage.

  20. Cheap-jacks was dispensing more volubly his two penn'orths of "sassaple.

  21. There has been a new system every day about the manner of dispensing the food and clothing to the sufferers.

  22. Now the whole matter of receiving and dispensing relief supplies has been placed in the hands of the Grand Army of the Republic men.

  23. He was dismissed six months afterwards for refusing to support the royal assumption of the dispensing power.

  24. Lovaina was a spendthrift, giving money liberally to relatives, lending it to improvident borrowers, and dispensing it with open hands when she had it, though always herself in debt.

  25. It was no fictitious effort, but she had already prepared soup and farina, and was dispensing it to the crowds of poor fellows lying thickly about.

  26. Calm, sweet and holy, the night seemed a very benison, dispensing peace.

  27. There is no duty so constantly enforced, both in the Old and New Testament, as that of charity, in dispensing to those who are destitute of the blessings we enjoy.

  28. Persons who have taken pains to inform themselves, and who devote their whole time to dispensing charities, unite in declaring that this is one of the most fruitful sources of indolence, vice, and poverty.

  29. It is offered at a reasonable price, and dispensing chemists should put before their Medical friends its well-known merits.

  30. There would be a little visiting among the dependents in the hamlet, and for the lady herself, in cold wet seasons, a great dispensing of herbal medicines for rheums and ague.

  31. On the other hand, people who eat well, drink moderately; the satisfaction of the appetite dispensing with the necessity for resorting to stimulants.

  32. The drunkard defies it, and arrogates the right of dispensing with forethought and self-denial,--throwing upon others the blame of his ultimate wretchedness.


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