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Example sentences for "eying"

Lexicographically close words:
eyestrain; eyewitness; eyewitnesses; eyght; eygre; eyne; eynes; eyot; eyots; eyrie
  1. And Mrs. Gray sat back in her chair and rocked violently to and fro, eying her hostess with the evident consciousness of having presented a poser.

  2. Hamilton Haley, eying the steamer from a distance, suddenly uttered an exclamation of amazement.

  3. And then he added, eying the stranger with a different expression, "You're a good sort, after all.

  4. Haley waited some moments, eying the mate as if to read his mind.

  5. Must have been extraordinary intelligent oysters," murmured Mr. Spoopendyke, eying her with suspicion.

  6. Mr. Wharton, turning the bundle over to examine its envelope, and eying it rather suspiciously.

  7. Cuthbert spoke with a forced calmness which gave his words weight, and for a moment even the angry man paused to listen to them, eying the youth keenly all the while, as though measuring his own strength against him.

  8. She held in her hand a piece of paper which she was eying with many a scornful sniff.

  9. While I thus sat alone, I observed one of the waiters eying me a little impertinently, as I thought, and as if he saw something queer about me.

  10. They would sit on their chests, forlorn and moping; with a steadfast sadness, eying the forecastle lamp, at which they had lighted so many a pleasant pipe.

  11. You are quite a sportsman I see," said the captain, eying the great buttons on my coat, upon each of which was a carved fox.

  12. Bowles turned round and leisurely floated on the surface of the water, eying his pursuer as if he were anxious to get hold of him; but Wallingford began to swim round the desperado.

  13. About the latticed porch, which ran around the sanded yard with its feeble fountain and futile evergreens, other groups were eying one another, or engaging in desultory conversation, oppressed with the heaviness of the night.

  14. Across his eyes, drawn and haggard with pain, flashed a look of joy that Rhoda, eying the bandage, did not see.

  15. And Kut-le sat beside the spring, eying his visitors grimly.

  16. Kut-le stood with his back against a cottonwood eying the slender figure with frank delight.

  17. Then she sat in helpless misery, eying her blue-veined foot.

  18. Eying her reflection in the mirrored walls of the elevator, she felt as pinkly blown as a rose, and looked it.

  19. Selden followed; together they dragged the wreck up high and dry; then they sat down on the sand, eying one another.

  20. Mr. Gammon took the letter rather eagerly, read deliberately through it, and then looked up at his fidgety partner, who stood anxiously eying him, and smiled.

  21. Gammon stood for a moment or two eying him with a keen scrutiny.

  22. Titmouse, on hearing him inquired for in the manner I have described, and stood at a yard or two's distance, eying the two with a truculent dissatisfied look, wondering what on earth any one could want with one of his young men.

  23. Snap sat silently eying him like a terrier a rat coming within his reach!

  24. McGillivray groaned and rested his head against the back of the chair, eying Sevier half humorously, half angrily.

  25. While they waited, the two men stood with the table between them, eying each other in silence.

  26. They stopped as Ike rode up, eying him uncomfortably.

  27. Then she turned to Banker, who had been eying her with furtive, speculative eyes, cautious and suspicious.

  28. Climb in, Wainwright," said I, eying the youngster unfavorably.

  29. She dropped her blanket from her head and let it fall about her calico-covered shoulders, smiling affably about her, but eying the breakfast things appreciatively.

  30. Calmly eying the surrounding crowd, he was searching for some familiar face among the scowling warriors.

  31. It is," replied he, eying her with cold cruelty.

  32. It is a beautiful bouquet," said Kaunitz, eying it critically, "and very peculiar.

  33. But Miss Belle went on at once, eying me steadily with a hard, stony look.

  34. You get out of here, Burke," I said, without heat, eying him steadily.

  35. She stood at bay, eying me, uncertain but defiant.

  36. Brandon sat speechless, eying the mortified face of the courtier with a malicious complacency, and there was a pause of several minutes.

  37. With this Ned turned to the stables, and soon disappeared among the horses; but Clifford, eying the disappointed and eager face of the culinary sage, took ten guineas from his own share, and pushed them towards his quondam tutor.

  38. He handled the pipe very gingerly, turning it over and over, eying it with all his eyes.

  39. While I was still eying it with jealous scrutiny the door reopened, and Tress came in again.

  40. The latter stood in groups, eying each other suspiciously, while regarding the rest of the world with that indulgent air they assume at musicales.

  41. Billy, eying the piles of sandwiches, the veal loaf, the whole cake and the can of pears which graced the paper napkins on the grass.

  42. This very rowboat," said Mr. Sloane, eying it with affection.

  43. He was stationed on the bank, eying the canoe and the girls in it in a very threatening way, and most plainly only waiting till the boys came back to bite them.

  44. There was a moment--just the fraction of a minute--when each clutched a corner of it, eying the other grimly.

  45. Hosey Brewster took to eying them as Mrs. Brewster had eyed the women.

  46. The doctor stood apart, separated from Lady Eleanore by the width of the room, but eying her with such keen sagacity that Captain Langford involuntarily gave him credit for the discovery of some deep secret.

  47. There was one of the guests, however, who stood apart, eying these antics sternly and scornfully at once with a frown and a bitter smile.


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