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Example sentences for "going"

Lexicographically close words:
goggling; goggly; goil; goin; goiner; goinge; goings; gointer; goire; gois
  1. Meanwhile, everything had remained quiet at Mantua, though all that was going on elsewhere was being watched with eager interest by the Gonzagas and Mantegna.

  2. Are you going to keep Mr. Harrison much longer?

  3. I certainly do, and I'm going to get one," replied Gabe.

  4. Are you going to take back what you said about me?

  5. I declare, I don't know what's going to happen!

  6. Several old miners tried, with the best of intentions, to dissuade Gabe from going to those diggings, saying he would only meet with failure.

  7. He was not going to desert his brother in the hour of need.

  8. I'm going to head him toward the shore," the old miner said, after a moment's pause.

  9. You're not going to let them undertake that crazy plan, are you?

  10. The chase had led in a sort of irregular circle about the place where the packs had been lifted off the animals, the horse sometimes going up the trail, and sometimes down.

  11. What are you going to do, neighbor Crosby?

  12. Am I going to stand still and be called a coward?

  13. What are we going to do, daddy--sleep in the barn, in the hay?

  14. Then, calling to his imprisoned brother that he was going to begin soon, he brought up his pick and shovel from the packs.

  15. They want that gold," added Will, "but they're not going to get it!

  16. I'm going out there as fast as I can make tracks for the West.

  17. We have it from the best authority that he purposes going into the retail coal and tater line.

  18. He told me he was going to dine to-day at Buckingham Palace.

  19. He says he knows some gipsies on the common who have got scarlet-fever in their tent; and he is going to give them half-a-crown if they can bring it into the village, to be paid upon the breaking out of the first undoubted case.

  20. There is no description of tea to be had in the market now but gunpowder, which, by the last reports, is going off briskly.

  21. The coast being left clear, the villain and his accomplices enter, and we know something dreadful is going to happen, for the farmer's wife is gone out of the way on purpose not to interrupt.

  22. I'm going to seal a letter, Dick, Some wax pray give to me.

  23. Her husband had sent for the yacht, and they were going to Scotland, and in the winter to the Mediterranean and the Nile.

  24. Well," she demanded, "are we going to play?

  25. If he's going to marry your daughter, you have the right to ask about his past.

  26. Oh, what a mistake a woman makes when she marries a man with the idea that she is going to change him!

  27. That is what is going on among our boys," I said.

  28. I am not going to insult your ears," he said, "with discussions of her ideas.

  29. She had thought at first that it was going to prove a helpful talk--he had been in a fairer mood than she was usually able to induce.

  30. People supposed we were going to try to get through the crowd ahead--and there was no place where anyone could move.

  31. And when the mild laughter had subsided: "What I have to say is going to be addressed to one individual among you--the American millionaire.

  32. It's going on in every fraternity house, every 'prep school' dormitory in America.

  33. Do you think I'm going off and hide in a hole, while she spends his money and plays the princess up and down the Avenue?

  34. In that terrible storm, when we thought the house was going to be washed away!

  35. She was going in the launch, and was in a state of flustration, occupied in putting on her best false hair.

  36. He is going to Castleman County, and after he has stayed a week or so, he is going off on a hunting-trip, and not return.

  37. The truth is, she was going down so fast that already she seemed a different person; and she had been frightened by the thin-lipped old family lawyer, so that she was incapable of even a decent pretence.

  38. As they were going down the steps, Will turned and called, "Good-bye.

  39. I feel confident that it is going to be a grand thing for our town.

  40. They had turned toward home and were going down a hill at a rapid gait when one of the runners of the sleigh slipped into an icy rut, and the borrowed, dilapidated affair collapsed.

  41. What are the others, who are to play the part of men, going to wear?

  42. There was much whispering going on, but it ceased suddenly when Barbara and Fanny came from the dressing-room ready to go home.

  43. This was a sample of the talk that was going on all over Manville the morning after the "Big Show.

  44. Barbara sat at one of Mrs. Stout's front windows, thoughtful and silent, as she watched the people going home from church.

  45. Chapter XII Girl Talk "WHAT are you going to wear?

  46. The morning was cold, the coffee good, and Sam was grateful, and before he had gulped down the last of it Mrs. Darling knew all that was going on in town.

  47. How are you going to dress for the part, Mrs. Tweedie?

  48. I mean, isn't it splendid to think that he is going to do something--be somebody.

  49. Miss Wallace is going to let me take her graduation cap and gown.

  50. After three days he is found; before going back to the palace, he secretly promises to the youngest sister that he will return.

  51. But battles are not always going on in the heavens; even the wild animals of the gloomy forest become tame and rest themselves; music fills the soul with calm sentiments.

  52. One day a young man predestined to the highest honours, before going to comb the king's head, receives from his mother a cake made of her own milk and flour.

  53. I listened to his complaint, and then asked him if he would spend five minutes in going about the building with me.

  54. I spent a number of Saturdays going from town to town to inspect the manual training equipment and courses of study.

  55. We talked a trois for three hours and before going away she took me into her night nursery.

  56. There is no lack of truth over here, but there is a lack of freedom, and I think the press which is kept informed of what is going on might do much more than it does with its powers upon this subject.

  57. These remarks are of little interest, but they tend to show how much some people and nations depend on the approbation of others and are the reason why I am going to finish with a short summing-up.

  58. If I die on the Mauretania going home,--which is more than likely as the sea seldom forgives bad sailors--I am certain of leaving something to my family that they can look at without repugnance.

  59. You won't believe me, but in this very hotel I heard one man say to another: "'I never read a line that is not going to profit me in commerce.

  60. They asked me if I would be back in time for Princess Mary's wedding; where I was going when I arrived in America, and if I looked forward to my trip.

  61. Had I but realised the great distances over here when I left England, I would have started earlier, and made a longer tour, but I am going home for my son's Easter holidays and have therefore been obliged to refuse much hospitality.

  62. I felt less sad at parting with my hostess as I knew I was going to spend from 7 a.

  63. Upon our arrival, a stranger came up to us on the platform and said he hoped we would let him take us and our luggage to any place we liked; that he had loved my book and was going to hear my lecture.

  64. It happened to be a fine moonlight night, and very dry, being a small frost; he therefore forbore going into any house to refresh himself, but made the best of his way to the house of a sister he had at Kirk-Merlugh.

  65. I laid me under a lind so green, My eyes they sunk in sleep; There came two maidens going along, They fain would with me speak.

  66. If any one is passing that hill by night, he will see the fire issuing from the top, and going in again at the side.

  67. On going home, he got a shivering and a fever.

  68. He thus kept going backwards and forwards from ten at night till four in the morning, by which time the horses were quite tired.

  69. Here, too, people frequently happen to get a sight of the underground folk, especially about festival-times, for then they have dancing and great jollity going on down on the strand.

  70. He was going home one night from one of these festive occasions, being under engagement for another in the morning, and, as it was in the celebrated Sierra Morena, he contrived to lose his way.

  71. Jack was really hungry, and it gave him no small pleasure to perceive a fine column of smoke rising from the chimney, announcing what was going on within.

  72. Soon after, they saw them going up to a place half a mile off, and then going out of their sight as if they vanished in the air.

  73. For before you have left the wood he will cause it so to rain on you, to blow, to hail, and to make such right marvellous storms, thunder and lightning, that you will think the world is going to end.

  74. A man was going one morning to the forest, and he took the precaution to have his breakfast, which he was taking with him, blessed before he set out.

  75. No, Sue, I'm not going to preach, but I shall never forget how that tired man and those hungry children enjoyed their supper.

  76. However, I wasn't going to say anything to make her nervous, and that was the way they had always had them.

  77. Something told her it would be useless; but still she was on the point of going in, when old James Gregory came by, and asked her to walk on with him.

  78. Like as not he's going to take it home to his own girl!

  79. Going on that theory, Pennsylvania ought to go as an elephant, and Rhode Island as a giraffe.

  80. Miss Cram asked me, as I was going by, to show you the geometry lesson, as you were not in class yesterday.

  81. I heard an awful fizzing going on, just before Deacon Bassett came in.

  82. It was that summer when father broke his arm and the potato crop failed, and everything seemed to be going wrong on the farm.

  83. Miss Betsy Follansbee, who had not missed going to church in fifteen years, started on foot, after climbing out of her bedroom window to the shed roof and sliding down.

  84. I am not going to desert Mr. Micawber--I mean the Bay State.

  85. Next morning, as Mary Denison was going to her work, Lena rapped on the window, and called her attention by signs to the bodice she had on.

  86. The few "hands" who were at work here and there gazed after them in amazement; for the old man was dragging the girl along as if he had caught her in some offence, and was going to deliver her up to justice.

  87. And do you think I'm going to let it go through the duster, and then be thrown out, and somebody else get it?

  88. I finished your shirts this morning, dear; I'm going to begin on your slippers to-night.

  89. Lafayette, who was in Virginia, sent word to Washington that the British troops had landed at Yorktown (instead of going to New York), and that Cornwallis was strongly fortified there.

  90. Even the soldiers thought they were going to try to take the city.

  91. His colored servant was going to let down some bars for him, but he leaped over them and dashed into the midst of the fight.

  92. Washington was blamed for going into winter quarters and not driving the enemy out of Philadelphia.

  93. While this was going on, the British fleet arrived in the harbor.

  94. It was the first time Washington ever saw a regular, well-disciplined army and he enjoyed the sight, although he wondered how their orderly ranks were going to fight among the rocks and trees.

  95. After receiving the French reply, the party started back home, going as far as possible in canoes.

  96. Both banks are dotted with hippopotamus traps, over every track which these animals have made in going up out of the water to graze.

  97. A venerable-looking old man hailed us as we passed, and asked us if we were going by without speaking.

  98. We suspected that Muazi had sent them orders to refuse us food, that we might thus be prevented from going into the depopulated district; but this may have been mere suspicion, the result of our own uncharitable feelings.

  99. In going up the East Coast to take advantage of the current of one hundred miles a day, we would fain have gone into the Juba or Webbe River, the mouth of which is only 15 minutes south of the line, but we were too shorthanded.

  100. On the morning of July 3rd a herd of elephants passed within fifty yards of our sleeping-place, going down to the river along the dry bed of a rivulet.

  101. The mighty power of the water here seen gave us an idea of what is going on in thousands of cataracts in the world.

  102. On 2nd October we applied to Muazi for guides to take us straight down to Chinsamba's at Mosapo, and thus cut off an angle, which we should otherwise make, by going back to Kota-kota Bay.

  103. The disintegration of the rocks, now going on, does not round off the angles; they are split up by the heat and cold into angular fragments.

  104. The unbelievers were astonished, and could hardly believe their eyes, when they saw the ship float lightly and gracefully on the river, instead of going to the bottom, as they so confidently predicted.

  105. In going down it, the men sent by Sekeletu behaved very nobly.

  106. While this inquiry was going on, he bolted too.

  107. I felt sure he was going to decline, when he glanced across at me.

  108. I'm going down and arrest that policeman for disturbing the peace.

  109. You're not going to give her up, are you, Betty?

  110. He said he was going to play a practical joke on somebody and fell asleep in the middle of it.

  111. I am not going upstairs to face Anne and the rest of them.

  112. I am going to call him down, Bella," I said firmly.

  113. He--he was going to put his arm around you!

  114. The Mercer girls were going to cruise until the trouble blew over, the Browns were going to Pinehurst, and Jim was going to Africa to hunt, if he could get out of the harbor.

  115. I dream about those stairs, stretching above me in a Jacob's ladder of shining wood and Persian carpets, going up, up, clear to the roof.

  116. I quite got a headache from laughing; indeed I laughed until I found I was crying, and then I knew I was going to have an attack of strangulated emotion, called hysteria.

  117. You are going right home to unpack those new draperies that Harry Bayles sent you from Shanghai, and you are going to order dinner for eight--that will be two tables of bridge.

  118. Jim had painted Bella's portrait while they were going up the Nile on their wedding trip.

  119. But he came over while the lottery was going on and stood over me and demanded unpleasantly, in a whisper, that I stop masquerading as another man's wife and generally making a fool of myself--which is the way he put it.

  120. You are not going to take those back, are you, Max?

  121. I am going right upstairs and tell her the truth, tell her who you are, what I am, and all the rest of it.

  122. He's going to drive out here a little later, with Geoffrey at the wheel, because he wants to see you people.

  123. I believe things are going to happen to-night!

  124. I'm going to spend mine on another trip over here in the spring to visit you girls, and I'm going to bring mother with me.

  125. But I want to investigate the thing pretty thoroughly, and the only way to do it is to get into that bungalow and see what has been going on inside.

  126. I'm going to get it right away and make another try at opening it.

  127. But how are you going to lock that door after you?

  128. There isn't a bureau-drawer with a key in the whole bungalow--so what am I going to do?

  129. I have carried them about with me for several years, and now I am going to give them to you young folks--one to each of you, as a little token of my gratitude for your invaluable help!

  130. Phyllis Kelvin, are we going crazy, or is there some strange connection in all this?

  131. It was all very mysterious, but while we couldn't make much out of it, at least it showed that something concerning the affair was going on and that the place must be closely watched.

  132. And I'm going to get out of the window and go over and explore Curlew's Nest by myself!

  133. They just calculate on few people going out or even looking out of their houses on that kind of a night.

  134. He wants all my interest and influence going out for the honor and the glory of God; He wants me to give myself up.

  135. When dinner was brought upon the table, he ate of it, and that was all he knew of what was going on in his house.

  136. And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.

  137. Oh, think of that wonderful thing that is going to happen in the great eternity.

  138. May we regard this joy of the Holy Ghost, not only as a beautiful thing to admire, not only as a thing to have beautiful thoughts about, but as a blessing that we are going to claim.

  139. And are you going to believe that, apart from any experience, and apart from any consciousness of strength?

  140. We find the same going on in private life; for instance, a man has less conscience when in love than in any other circumstances.

  141. Eastlake: "In the year 1830, as I was going to publish in Latin the same treatise which in German accompanies this letter, I went to Dr.

  142. This step was hailed by the public as going a long way towards the settlement of labor disputes by arbitral boards.

  143. But we are going to leave no stone unturned to put a stop to anti-American activities among workers.

  144. We have our credentials written out, signed, and sealed and will present them to any committee of the conference for scrutiny and recommendation, but we are not going to sign such a card.

  145. More than this, he expected to have with him the Spaniard, Doranez, the fellow who had said he was going to Spain to visit his relatives.

  146. Going to uncover some more freight thieves?

  147. If you are going to make a society call you want your necktie on straight," said Sam.

  148. You can never guess who is going there, too.

  149. But we are going to capture them if it can be done," he added, sturdily.

  150. When the revolutionists carried them off they said they were going straight back to Central America with them.

  151. A little more conversation followed, and then the Rover boys asked Slade where he was going to stop, and said they might see him later.

  152. Hullo, Aleck, going to see your best girl?

  153. He said he was going straight home would telephone from Lockville for the carriage to meet the last train," said Tom.

  154. For the present I am going to keep you a prisoner," and a few minutes later he had Wingate handcuffed and placed under lock and key in a small storeroom.

  155. I put it in my bunk room when I got it and ate it on going to bed.

  156. I-I am afraid something is going to happen.

  157. I am going after that and leave you where you are.

  158. We used to put up with a whole lot from Dan Baxter before he reformed--I am not going to put up with as much from Sobber.

  159. He says he is going to take at least four strong men whom he can trust.

  160. Oh, just going to take a little sail around, to test the engine," was the apparent indifferent answer.

  161. If you cannot enlist a gardener, and are going to make your own garden, you must learn to dig it over properly, and for this you will want a strong spade suited to your height.

  162. You must not disturb plants that are just going to flower, but all the strong kinds will stand division and transplanting when they have only sent up young leaves.

  163. We are only going to tell you about the common Polyanthus, which grows in big clusters, and about the coloured garden Primrose, which is mostly found with single flowers, like the yellow Primrose of our fields and hedges.

  164. Every day this month you should visit your garden with a pair of scissors, and cut off all dead flowers and all annuals that are going to seed.

  165. It may be that a flat, sunny border cannot be spared for you, but that if you choose you may annex a grass-grown bank or slope of a hill going up to a stone wall or to shrubs.

  166. We are not going to tell you much about fruit and vegetables, because a child is not likely to want his little garden to be a kitchen garden.

  167. Before you replant it you must consider whether what you are going to plant would like a little manure beneath its roots, or as a blanket on the top.

  168. You will see many operations going on in the large garden that you cannot imitate and need not understand until you have learned to cultivate your own.

  169. If it is going to flower in a few weeks, you may as well give it a good place at once and leave it alone.

  170. If you are going to make your path yourself, you must now take your spade and dig out all the earth to the depth of ten inches.

  171. When a plant is not going to flower till next year, you would rather keep it out of your show border this year, so if you have a nursery border you let it grow up there.

  172. If you are going to grow it as a tree, and not against a wall, you must tie it to a strong stake directly it is planted.

  173. But if you are going to have many bedders, you will save yourself a great deal of trouble by putting them out in showery weather towards the end of May.

  174. The hardy perennials we are going to describe will flourish in any English garden that has good, well-dressed soil, and is open to the sun part of the day.

  175. I am going to get that rhododendron," he said.

  176. He was going over a little knoll now, and he could see the creek that ran around his house, but he was not touched.

  177. She had known it from the first, he said, and I guessed then what was going to happen to him.

  178. I went up the ravine with him and I climbed up behind him--Grayson going very deliberately and whistling softly.

  179. Some soldiers revolt at Madrid, without going any length of insurrection, or at all endangering the Government.

  180. We are now almost daily expecting large supplied from Kent and Sussex, as picking is now going on rapidly.

  181. Bill Brown knew perfectly well why every one was running; there was going to be another explosion in a couple of minutes, maybe sooner, out of this hell in front of him.

  182. It was hard, he said, going off a spring-board into empty air.

  183. It's queer how people get wind of a thing; the crowd seemed to know in a minute that I was going to use dynamite, and before I was twenty feet up the ladder a police officer was after me, ordering me down.

  184. Besides, how are you going to hitch fast the rope that will pull it over?

  185. Ain't any bridge-man going could have kept his head there.

  186. Then he nursed the flame in his hands, got his pipe going good, and walked on across the timber.

  187. Well, those Keene riflemen weren't going to be bluffed by a showman.

  188. Honest, I thought I was going to be killed, but I got through all right.

  189. As to my going up on the swing there was no difficulty.

  190. We could see the whole thing was going to make a fine bonfire in about three minutes, and it looked as if Dave would be in it.

  191. Thus, at break-neck speed, we come out of Chicago, all slow-going city ordinances to the contrary notwithstanding.

  192. Indeed, in going about from engine to engine I found the following dialogue repeated over and over again: "Ever in a collision?

  193. I'm going to set up the Displacer myself.

  194. Obediently his two crewmen flattened out, going immediately Shapeless.

  195. I don't see how I'm going to spare myself for a whole week just when everything is growing so fast.

  196. Before going to Bettie's, however, Jean ran over to Dandelion Cottage to tell the other girls about it.

  197. I'm not going to let that extra place do any waiting for me.

  198. I don't just see what we're going to do about it.

  199. Mrs. Crane looked, as Marjory said afterward, for all the world as if she were going to cry.

  200. The girls might have known that nothing short of an ambitious project for saving the cottage from the Milligans would have kept the child away when so much was going on.

  201. Somehow, I don't think they're going to be very nice people," said Mabel.

  202. Mr. Barlow is going to be married to a young lady he's been writing to for a long time, and I'm going to lose him because he wants to keep house.

  203. Previous to the Priests going there, I was his intimate friend,--his confidant.

  204. After first arriving at the Columbia River, they straggled and struggled along the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver--a few driving cattle, going overland by the Indian trail from near The Dalles to Oregon City.

  205. About twelve or fourteen years ago the Hudson Bay Company blasted a canal a few feet to conduct water to a mill they were going to build, the timber for which is now lying at the falls rotting.

  206. There was great difficulty in going from the Upper Cascades to the Lower Cascades.


  207. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "going" 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:
    going about; going abroad; going ashore; going away; going back; going beyond; going concern; going down; going everywhere; going forth; going forward; going from; going home; going north; going out; going over; going right; going thither; going through; going west