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Example sentences for "facing the"

  • Facing the breeze, her shadow she doth watch, Who's meet this moonlight night with her to match?

  • Suddenly Antoinette stopped in the middle of the floor, facing the candle, her hands clasped, her eyes wide with fear.

  • And something of the agony of the woman's soul as she lay in torment, facing the wall, thinking of her son under the same roof, of a life misspent and irrevocable, I pictured.

  • In this town, facing the sea, is a street lined with quaint houses painted in yellows and browns and greens, and under each house the kind of a shop that brings back to the middleaged delectable memories of extreme youth and nickels to spend.

  • The first operation is that of facing the side of the flange and end of the hub with tool No.

  • Three Methods of Facing the Ends Square] =Facing the Ends of Centered Stock.

  • The fourth operation is that of recessing the bushing, and the fifth operation, facing the end to remove the rough surface left by the cutting-off tool.

  • By facing the flanges in this way, they are finished square with the bore.

  • Facing the river is a large balcony from which the Governor views the yearly boat-race that takes place on the birthday of the King.

  • The condemned are then made to stand upon the old sea-wall, and, facing the sea, await their doom.

  • Walking onwards by the King’s Cross Road we soon come to the point where Exmouth Street joins it from the east, facing the south-east angle of the House of Correction.

  • It can only be done by facing the difficulties, thoroughly understanding the dangers, and asking ourselves repeatedly whether we are prepared to face the ordeal in war.

  • At the second command, the guides of the other companies take posts, facing the center (right or left), so as to prolong the line.

  • The points of the compass can also be ascertained by facing the sun in the morning and spreading out your arms straight from the body.

  • Within a dozen feet of Lawler he halted, facing the corner.

  • Lawler swung around in the bunk and sat on its edge, facing the men.

  • From the second story of a brick building that stood on the southern side of the street, facing the station, Gary Warden could look past the red station into the empty corrals beside the railroad track.

  • Her dowry, monsieur," he added, facing the Englishman, as he laid the packet down on the table by the side of the Countess Laure.

  • This is really the gate of the city, facing the shrine of Benten by the land approach; but it is only the third torii of the imposing series through Katase: we did not see the others, having come by way of the coast.

  • The Union Hotel here mentioned is the identical building erected for a hotel by a company in 1805, and now owned by the Journal de Quebec, facing the ring.

  • Here the One Hundred and Ninetieth deployed as skirmishers, and advanced into the woods, facing the south-west.

  • How far we advanced up the Quaker road I am unable to say; but we finally turned to the left, and formed line of battle, facing the west.

  • France, facing the Bay of Biscay on the W.

  • He laughed with a satisfied air, and sat on the yellow couch with his back to the light, facing the fireplace.

  • Facing the juror, in a terrible voice vibrating with passion and despair: "Villain, monster, murderer!

  • Facing the citoyennes' room was another of very modest dimensions containing three beds, where the men of the party were to sleep, in such comfort as they might.

  • The simplest is any tight enclosure, covered with a glass roof at an angle of forty-five degrees, facing the south, and kept warm by artificial heat.

  • A house covered with glass at an angle of forty-five degrees, facing the south, will answer the purpose.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "facing the" 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:
    blessed them; clearly shown; drink from; facing each; facing page; facing the; four quarters; higher learning; intestinal tract; its value; less important; little talk; long after; moist sugar; national defence; particularly true; peach orchard; provide evidence; public elementary; railway companies; room telegraph; sell again; the constitution; turn them