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Example sentences for "displaying"

Lexicographically close words:
displacements; displaces; displacing; display; displayed; displays; displeasant; displease; displeased; displeases
  1. Then she smiled broadly, displaying rows of even white teeth, and Mary grasped the situation in a moment.

  2. I say," she said, dropping off her rain-coat and displaying a suit of manly black beneath, to match the short brown wig above.

  3. Then they all began to notice, suddenly, that in bed Grammont was displaying rather nice qualities, such as you would not expect from a joyeux, a social outcast.

  4. A wandering sunbeam took her hair, displaying its amber, translucent quality.

  5. Displaying the most complete inaptitude for every other form of diligence, she was ready enough to learn any amount that any one liked to give her.

  6. He had a full measure of the religious bigotry which belonged to the age; and he had melancholy scope for displaying it, as chief of that dread tribunal, over which he presided during the last ten years of his life.

  7. In this way he frequently multiplied difficulties; but difficulties seemed to have a charm for him, by the opportunity they afforded of displaying the energies of his soul.

  8. At one end of the apartment was an alcove, where the rich velvet curtains were looped away with heavy cords and tassels of gold, displaying a smaller room, where was a bed with hangings of crimson satin embroidered with gold.

  9. The True Church is not a flaunting queen who goes boldly forth among men displaying her beauties, but a veiled bride, a dove that is in the cleft of the rocks, whose voice is known only to the Beloved.

  10. I again mounted the driver's box, for all around us Nature was displaying her attractions in the plenitude of her magnificence and beauty.

  11. Her right hand displaying an olive branch; at her feet lay the honors of harvest; the background was filled with flourishing cities; ports crowded with ships; and other emblems of an extensive empire and unrestrained commerce.

  12. The temple showed thirteen arches, each displaying an illuminated painting.

  13. He knew that he was displaying weakness, but he compounded with his austere self by arguing that he was more likely to arrive at the truth if he avoided anything in the nature of precipitate action.

  14. The vase before us is a typical case; the porcelain loses nothing of its own loveliness in becoming the medium for displaying the beauty of the metalwork.

  15. Encaustic tiles, also, which were introduced in the early days of heraldry, afforded another means of displaying the insignia of warriors.

  16. At the displaying of a Duke's banner, L20.

  17. At the displaying of the King's banner in any campe .

  18. Edgar saw that she would not be put off with an inadequate explanation, and he was a little surprised that she did not seem to mind displaying her interest in George.

  19. George knew she was addicted to displaying a needless anxiety about her husband's health.

  20. Pomeroy had other talents beside his skill in chemistry, and soon became a popular citizen of the village, displaying one accomplishment that was perhaps not so rare then as now in being an expert in the exposition of the Bible.

  21. While Cooper was descanting eloquently upon this strange phenomenon, the darkey, suddenly rolling up his eyeballs, and displaying all his ivory, sprung spasmodically into the air, and then tumbled back in his seat.

  22. We buried poor Wilkie in the glacis, near the breach, the whole wreck around us displaying the veriest monument ever reared to the memory of a soldier!

  23. The dead lay in heaps, numbers of them stripped, and displaying the most ghastly wounds.

  24. He selects such stories from the Bible as suit his purpose, and adds freely from legendary sources, displaying considerable art in the selection and use of his materials.

  25. On the continent the modern use of coronets is not ordered in the precise English fashion, men of gentle birth displaying coronets which afford but slight indication of the bearer's rank.

  26. The final annoyance to him was that everybody except himself seemed to consider that Ruth was displaying singular ingenuity, originality, enterprise, and goodness of heart.

  27. He had lavished an enormous amount of brains and energy to the end of displaying himself in this refined and novel attire to the gaze of two hundred persons, and yet his secret wish was to deprive his mother of the beautiful spectacle!

  28. They laugh who win," he whispered, undoing a single button of his jacket, and displaying a corner of the wash-leather belt.

  29. Great numbers of statues were erected displaying him in the garb of Hercules.

  30. Bonaparte bears tribute to "that rare loveliness of temper and tact in displaying the good qualities even of rivals that were potent weapons in Recamier's quiver of charms.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "displaying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    demonstrative; evidential; expressive; indicative; showing