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Example sentences for "exploring"

Lexicographically close words:
explore; explored; explorer; explorers; explores; explosion; explosions; explosive; explosively; explosives
  1. I like the exploring end of the work best, anyhow.

  2. As she spoke, Jim's near mother was exploring the region within her gingham waist and finally she tugged out a chamois skin bag that bulged with bills.

  3. Mrs. Turvey was very agreeable, and allowed herself to be pumped just as much as she chose and no more until the exploring party returned.

  4. But he had resolved that morning that never again would he turn back in his exploring so long as it was possible to go on.

  5. On the third day, as Ned came in from an exploring trip, instead of the 'coon he found his old friend Tom, the lynx, sitting beside Dick with the air of a trained nurse.

  6. After exploring its mazes for miles, Dick and Ned found, near the northeast end of the bay, a tiny key marked by two tall palmettos, on which were the signs of an old Indian camp.

  7. You know how we have planned to do real camping and exploring together.

  8. The 'coon did come back the next day while Ned was out exploring the bay in the canoe and, although he did not eat out of Dick's hand, he came within a few feet of him and showed very little fear.

  9. They followed its shore for an hour, exploring every little bay that looked big enough to hide the smallest creek.

  10. We have now turned the last page of the story of those bold spirits who played no mean part in the making of Australasia by exploring the continent.

  11. Considering that his health was not robust, and that the work entailed was of a specially arduous nature, his personal share in exploring the country about the little settlement was noteworthy.

  12. Members of the Exploring Expedition, Geraldton to Adelaide, 1874.

  13. Mueller, and Wilson, taking seven horses and twenty days' rations, his object being to examine the country through which the exploring party would have to travel on their route to the interior.

  14. Beagle was lying in Port George the Fourth, awaiting the return of Captain Stokes, who was away exploring the coast.

  15. The Governor arrived at the recently-formed town of Bathurst on the 4th of May; but before his arrival Evans had been again ordered out on another exploring expedition to the south-west.

  16. Search was made for marked trees, but none found, nor were there any fragments of leather, iron, or other equipment of an exploring party, or of any bones of animals other than those common to Australia.

  17. On the date mentioned in 1830, Roe was in the field exploring in the vicinity of Cape Naturaliste.

  18. Though upon reaching Bathurst Mitchell was informed that the Lachlan River was dry, he started on his third exploring expedition in the best of spirits.

  19. It was called The Elder Exploring Scientific Expedition, and its main purpose was announced to be the completion of the exploration of Australia.

  20. This was the last exploring expedition sent out by the Queensland authorities, the country within the bounds of that colony being by that time all known.

  21. Yes,' he said; 'the last man of the exploring expedition.

  22. After exploring the playa, without seeing anything more than tracks, I succeeded in penetrating a short distance into the forest, where I was lucky enough to kill a fine, large bird, known as the paujil.

  23. After lunch we set out upon an exploring expedition along the deserted playa, which proved to be some three kilometres in length.

  24. After exploring the coast of Louis Philippe Land, the ship visited Weddell Sea in the hope of getting southward along King Oscar II.

  25. Land, and see what was to be done there, besides exploring the region around the Bay of Whales.

  26. The Jeannette carrying the American exploring expedition was in 1879 caught in the pack to the northward of Wrangel Island (Fig.

  27. To-day we have been exploring Zurich, a city famous in the history of the Reformation and dear to every Protestant heart.

  28. We have been exploring the town to find what of interest may be in it, though it is scarcely worth while for any man to look down for a moment while he is in Switzerland, unless he is on the top of a hill.

  29. Ichandau charmingly dropped down among the mountains, is an old town, but only remarkable as the point from which to set off on exploring expeditions into the interior of Saxon Switzerland.

  30. Two days before that, he had deserted me in the south country because I was overlong in getting back to the boat after an exploring trip.

  31. Gradually, some of them developed exploring tendencies and made their way to the wooded grounds of suburban residences.

  32. Shann knew that the other had knowledge, not only of the general countryside, but of exploring techniques which he himself did not possess, but to be reminded of that fact was an irritant rather than a reassurance.

  33. He had had the immunity shots given to all members of the team, and he had eaten game brought in by exploring parties and labeled "safe.

  34. Let one of their exploring flyers sight them, and the little group was finished.

  35. Later half the company stayed near their impromptu camp under the big elm tree that overhung the brook while the other half went on an exploring expedition, and when they returned the first half sallied forth.

  36. The four young women talked on until a long, clear trill announced the return of the other half of the exploring party.

  37. Exploring the suburbs of the capital, he found a place for sale at the top of Fontenay-aux-Roses, in a secluded section near the fort, far from any neighbors.

  38. As if exploring a sore tooth with his tongue, his mind sought for memories, but they all seemed clear, marshaled in line.

  39. You can check inside to see if they're full or empty and save us the trouble of exploring if they're all empty.

  40. I suppose my mind was full of what I had heard, or my coming dinner, or the probable behavior of three mischievous boys who had been busily exploring the premises while I was at the meeting.

  41. We did not recover from the fatigue of that expedition in several days, and we made no more experiments of exploring strange places without guides.

  42. With the cares of a large family I might, in time, like too many women, have become wholly absorbed in a narrow family selfishness, had not my friend been continually exploring new fields for missionary labors.

  43. Quite a body of these surveyors had built and fortified a camp near the Falls, and were busy in exploring the country, in preparation for the granting of lands as rewards for services to the officers and soldiers in the French war.

  44. Captain Smith having thus provided for the necessities of the greatly diminished colony, set out with a small party of men on an exploring expedition into the interior.

  45. On the twenty-second of December, Boone, with one of his companions, John Stewart, set out on one of their exploring tours.

  46. The two adventurers now set out on horseback for an exploring tour to the south-west.

  47. There was no lack of food and drink, and it was more like a prolonged picnic than an exploring expedition.

  48. Each day a company set out to explore, and sometimes Leif went with the exploring party, and sometimes he stayed at home.

  49. Now one December day Smith set out on an exploring expedition up the Chickahominy River.

  50. So he set about exploring the country, and decided as soon as fresh supplies came from England to move to a better spot.

  51. Long before the Louisiana Purchase Jefferson had wanted to send out an exploring party into this unknown west.

  52. So one August he gathered a company of friends, and set forth on an exploring expedition.

  53. But this done they found it difficult to decide just what would be the best place for their little town, and they spent a month or more exploring the coast round about.

  54. One native smeared Kaiser's face with an exploring paw and Kaiser gagged and pushed him roughly away.

  55. It had dropped Kaiser in the one remaining scout ship--the other seven had all been lost one way or another during the exploring of new worlds--and set itself into a giant orbit about this planet that Kaiser had named Big Muddy.

  56. Gale had gained her feet, keeping her head low this time so as not to bump it, and standing with her back to the window, her exploring fingers had encountered the window catch.

  57. Phyllis stumbled wildly over something and shrieked madly as her exploring fingers came in contact with something cold and hard.

  58. Her exploring fingers found the latch, consisting of a nail and a piece of string, and in a minute the shanty door swung to behind her.

  59. His hero, an Englishman of our own time, puzzled and distressed at the social misery and discord surrounding him, leaves England and joins an exploring expedition.

  60. I think you were in the Duprez expedition, exploring the tributaries of the Amazon?

  61. Flurry must have tempted Dot to accompany her on this exploring expedition.

  62. I had an inquisitive delight, I called it thirst, for human knowledge, in drawing out a stranger; no traveler exploring unknown tracts of country ever pursued his researches with greater zeal and interest.

  63. I’d like to go exploring in that mind of yours,” she thought.

  64. Certainly exploring a city of friendly people, many of whom smiled at her in a kindly way as she marched along in her spick-and-span uniform, could not be dangerous.

  65. Thrills she had experienced more than once came to her from exploring a strange city at night.

  66. That this type of exploring often leads to disaster she knew all too well.

  67. However, the trio continued toward the exit, knowing that it was too late to do any more exploring that night.

  68. You wouldn't be interested in exploring for its own sake?

  69. There ensued weeks of struggle and economy for the exploring party, to which had been added a chaperon in the large and reassuring person of Becky Zalmonowsky, the class idiot.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    exploring expedition; exploring party