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Example sentences for "doing right"

  • One of 'em fetched a small plate and took my cup and set it on the plate.

  • It tells me I'm doing right now, and I mean to listen to it.

  • I am sure I am doing right," she thought, "and what is there to be afraid of?

  • And I am doing right--God will take care of me.

  • A hard question, since no one attempts to say it is far otherwise; but after all, everything in this world is nonsense, except as a means of doing right or wrong.

  • Then again came his words, "every thing in this world is nonsense, except as a means of doing right or wrong.

  • And you do not think I made this nonsense a means of doing right?

  • Who so entirely treated, as well as spoke of, the world as nothing except as a means of doing right or wrong?

  • Tell him I'm happy, too, for I know I'm doing right.

  • It's what we're doing right now--stopping to pick blackberries.

  • She repeated to herself, "I am doing right — God will take care of me.

  • And I am doing right — God will take care of me.

  • I am sure I am doing right," she thought; "and what is there to be afraid of?

  • If you can't believe in my doing right--" "What were you in such a hurry for?

  • If I persist in doing Right--still with a capital--then nothing but right can come of it.

  • There's nothing to be afraid of in doing right," I declared, a little sententiously.

  • I have felt the pains of doing wrong, and I now deliberately choose the pains of doing right, let them be what they will!

  • I am not called upon to do wrong simply because I see that I am not wholly unselfish in doing right.

  • You do not know how glad I am to have you think I am doing right.

  • But in your future state, for countless billions of the human race, there will be no reform, no opportunity of doing right, and no possible gleam of sunshine can ever touch their souls.

  • All I insist is, if there is another life, the basest soul that finds its way to that dark or radiant shore will have the everlasting chance of doing right.

  • The word OUGHT, if it means anything, must have reference to some kind of interest or motives; and what interest a government has in doing right, when it happens to be interested in doing wrong, is a question for the schoolmen.

  • What did the Reviewer mean by saying, that a government could not be interested in doing right because it was interested in doing wrong?

  • We do not mean to say that the Gospel ignores altogether the personal results of doing right.

  • The liberty to which we are called in Christ, is not the liberty of devils, the liberty of doing what we will, but the blessed liberty of being on the side of the law, and therefore unrestrained by it in doing right.

  • Doing right is opposed to overdoing the thing, and to underdoing it.

  • Though capable of doing right, they are quite incapable of doing so philosophically.

  • Doing right is taking what it suits a rational nature to desire, and eschewing what is unsuitable under the circumstances.

  • I do not doubt you think you are doing right, but, I repeat, the whole thing comes from want of faith in God.

  • Not with any anxiety, however, if only I know that I am doing right.

  • All that we have to think of is to do right--not the consequences of doing right.

  • After all, in that house she might have a chance of doing right; and they ought to take her.

  • I suppose not; but I hope very much that I am doing right.

  • If Mr. Aspray owed her father money, it was but fair that he should bring Nan up; and there would be no Augusta there to taunt her and keep her from doing right.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doing right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    crumb them; dark horse; direction from; doing anything; doing business; doing everything; doing good; doing justice; doing nothing; doing things; doing this; doing well; doing what; doing work; doing wrong; early settlement; not surprising; present tense; scrofulous disease; social unit; thousand little; trades unions; true story; what else; what went; world began