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Example sentences for "driveling"

Lexicographically close words:
driueth; driuing; driv; drive; drivel; drivelling; driven; driver; drivers; drives
  1. But a plague of odes, and ballads, and driveling meditations, and novels with wide margins, pervades the sofas and the atmosphere.

  2. The bandit, suspecting nothing on the part of the driveling old man, readily committed his horse to his care, while he eagerly made his way through the hedge to secure the prize.

  3. The robber eyed Willie with a sort of leer, thinking he had fallen in with an old driveling fool, at whose expense he might amuse himself with impunity, and play a little on his simplicity.

  4. There was considerable of it, and Miss Miranda remarked, among other things, that so absent-minded a child was sure to grow up into a driveling idiot.

  5. She was a large-framed woman with a magnificent constitution, or she would soon have succumbed and become a driveling idiot.

  6. She was supposed to suffer from a mysterious disorder, and her driveling screams in the middle of the nights were attributed to pain.

  7. Except that she had grown more unwieldy, that her eyes were bleared and dim, and that her driveling mouth and hanging jaws gave her the appearance of a besotted hag, she bore no traces of a mortal illness such as Maxwell had described.

  8. From an inner room came the sound of driveling laughter.

  9. There are old men who marry young wives, and who pay the penalty by becoming martyrs to paralysis, softening of the brain, and driveling idiocy.

  10. Who but a driveling fanatic has thought of the necessity of protecting domestic animals from the cruelty of their owners?

  11. But the dullest pretender could discourse a jumble of pious bigotry, natural rights, and driveling philanthropy.

  12. And, driveling down his beard, his vest besmears!

  13. That only closed the driveling dotard's eyes, And sent his godhead downward to the skies.

  14. The bliss of solitude--how like a driveling ass of a poet!

  15. Driveling idiot that she is, I cannot think of her hiding somewhere and sneezing herself into captivity.

  16. As for the hole, that driveling idiot who dug it can fill it up tomorrow morning and no one be the wiser.

  17. Some driveling consumptive moralists—and poets especially—often call that thirst for life base.


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