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Example sentences for "doctoring"

Lexicographically close words:
doctorate; doctored; doctores; doctoress; doctorial; doctors; doctorum; doctour; doctours; doctress
  1. She has just been reading these last pages, with meditative brown eyes, and not without occasionally reaching for the pen and retouching some sentence in which, she says, soot from my chimney-doctoring days has clogged the ink.

  2. His doctoring skill has pulled me round, I can tell you.

  3. They suffered doubt as to our powers to linger in their hearts while we were doctoring them.

  4. I would also require that patients be treated as men and women, and not as dumb beasts, in the manner of doctoring them; that the doctors should conform to the same rules that they would out of the institution in doctoring free agents.

  5. I expected this answer, for we were disagreeing about the manner in which they were doctoring me.

  6. My old uncle had been doctoring up by Genoa.

  7. They were farriers, and from shoeing they advanced to doctoring and bleeding horses, thence to drugging and butchering those of their fellow-creatures who naturally preferred brute doctors to respectable physicians.

  8. And there indeed it was; and the sight of it went well-nigh to cure Emon, better than any doctoring he could get.

  9. Nikolai Petrovitch, like all stay-at-home people, had studied doctoring and even compiled a homoeopathic guide.

  10. Levin with annoyance; "that method of doctoring I merely meant as a simile for doctoring the people with schools.

  11. Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase.

  12. Here there's been a general rush to him, and he's begun doctoring everyone.

  13. In two weeks Mrs. Young had got the store man to take the things back for half price because Professor Young had decided he wanted to study banjo playing instead of doctoring and had bought a banjo trimmed with silver.

  14. Let the public do itself the honor to read my experience in doctoring a cold, as herein set forth, and then follow in my footsteps.

  15. At the end of two days I was ready to go to doctoring again.

  16. Sickened with Californian life, he had crossed the Pacific once more, and was hard at work in the diggings, doctoring and gold-finding by turns.

  17. It simply meant tears or losing her temper; in which case, Mátaji would retaliate by doctoring her food with red pepper to sweeten her tongue.

  18. But I'm afraid there's more wrong with Roy than mere doctoring can touch.

  19. Insist upon having your boat fitted out at least a fortnight before the first race, as a new boat often requires no end of doctoring before her best trim is discovered.

  20. The doctoring of Jess had delayed us considerably, and while we were still busy at it the old chief came up to say that his scouts had returned and reported that there was no tiger to be seen, but that they thought the trap had been sprung.

  21. We've been doctoring the horse ever since, but I doubt if it will pull through!

  22. I have extensive practice in the doctoring line; bad eyes, of course, abound.

  23. My poor ragged crew were for ever calling out 'Yah Sara' for some assistance or other, hurt fingers or such calamities; and the quantity of doctoring I did was fearful.

  24. I had a straight labour, but I flooded afterwards, and if the doctor had not been there I should have lost my life; it caused me three months’ doctoring afterwards.

  25. We had not many doctors’ bills, as our children were all very healthy, and I don’t think I have spent a pound on doctoring for myself since I was a baby, for which I am very thankful.

  26. At midnight we reached the sufferer, who was, by wise doctoring and skilful nursing, restored in a week.

  27. I remember a week or so of doctoring on myself during our first residence at Lac-qui-parle.

  28. Doctoring was not such an easy job after all.

  29. And now we know just as much about doctoring as Warner did on the threshhold of his short medical career.

  30. It was true that the doctoring of horses was his hobby.

  31. But for his skill in horse doctoring the sick beast would have been cut loose, and Colonel Flowerdue's party would have met only a coach laboring through the snow and would not have halted to discover its occupants.

  32. I can get along till you're doctoring for yourself.

  33. Then a young fellow who carried a buggy whip and smoked a cigar said, "How does the doctoring go, Jason?

  34. Baseball men maintain that the acme of doctoring grounds was the work of the old Baltimore Orioles.

  35. But lately among the profession, sentiment and baseball legislation have prevailed against the doctoring of grounds, and it is done very little.

  36. The habit of doctoring grounds is not so much in vogue now as it once was.

  37. The Orioles did not stop at doctoring the infield.

  38. In 54, Nero's mother, by concealing the rightful heir to the throne for several weeks and doctoring the returns, succeeded in getting the steady job of Emperor for Nero at a good salary.

  39. He had about one year more to serve, and, with his doctoring on one side and the hostility of the enemy on the other, our regiment was wore down to about five hundred men.

  40. But a more remarkable case of feminine success in the doctoring line was that of Mrs. Mapp, who was a contemporary of Mrs. Stephens.

  41. A century ago when a man was ill they began by doctoring his body.

  42. Now, when a man's ill, they begin by doctoring his mind.

  43. Speke, however, won his favour by blistering and doctoring him.


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