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Example sentences for "golfing"

Lexicographically close words:
gole; golf; golfed; golfer; golfers; golliwog; golly; gollywog; golosh; goloshes
  1. You will meet a golfing Venus some day," smiled Mrs. Chilvers, willing that her sex should be attacked so long as she was exempt.

  2. Let us see this paragon of all the golfing virtues without delay," laughed Miss Harding, and half an hour later our automobile stopped in front of the Bishop house.

  3. I am to have a portrait of myself done in oil, showing me in a golfing costume just about to knock the ball as far as I can, and the frame will be composed of golf balls I have found.

  4. I live here during the golfing season, and one is unfortunate if he cannot play nine months in the year in Woodvale.

  5. I told you then that some time you would meet a golfing Venus," she said triumphantly, and without waiting for me to make a defense left and joined Miss Dangerfield.

  6. Much interesting lore is contained in the Golfing Annual, in the Golfer's Year Book and in the pages of Golf, which has now become Golf Illustrated, a weekly paper devoted to the game.

  7. Nevertheless the new golfers were very loyal indeed to the club that had ever of old held, by tacit consent, the position of fount of golfing legislation.

  8. A very considerable increase, it is true, in the number of English golfers and English golf clubs had taken place before the discovery for golfing purposes of the links at Sandwich.

  9. The ladies have their annual championship, which they play on the long links of the men, sometimes on one, sometimes on another, but always on courses of the first quality, demanding the finest display of golfing skill.

  10. They have a Golfing Union which settles questions for them; but since this union itself accepts as binding the answers given by the Rules of Golf Committee, they really arrive at the same conclusions by a slightly different path.

  11. These, or just about these, were the years of the formation of the wandering teams, notably of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society, formed on the model of the wandering cricket clubs, such as the I.

  12. Certainly the latter did, and so would I too, had the old short course at North Berwick been my chief golfing haunt; for there the value of the pitch shot was out of all proportion greater than on the larger courses elsewhere.

  13. The only inland Club which was at this time of any weight in the general golfing councils was the Royal Wimbledon, which had seceded from the London Scottish, building itself a club-house at the opposite end of the common.

  14. But, except for this case of my own ball and that of Bernard Darwin's, I have never heard of another instance of the kind, though probably golfing history can furnish many.

  15. Sir Robert Hay and Sir Hope Grant, the former one of the finest amateurs of a past day and the latter more distinguished as a soldier than a golfer, came as guests, for golfing purposes, to my father's house.

  16. He had a temper which in its perfect serenity was a most valuable golfing asset to himself, and also most valuable in the charm of the companionship which it brought into a round of golf with him.

  17. All this while the only golfing playground at Oxford was still the cricket grounds on Cowley Marsh, and still there was no play at all in the summer term, when the cricketers occupied the ground.

  18. And then this thrill of new golfing life started at Westward Ho!

  19. Very likely, his golfing is more interesting because of the side bets than because of the exercise.

  20. He tries to counteract this with forced exercise in a gymnasium or a couple of hours golfing a week.

  21. But if she forgave neither of them, they would probably go on boozing and golfing together, and saying quite dreadful things about her, and not care very much whether she forgave them or not.

  22. This exhibition of golfing generalship on her part had removed his last doubts.

  23. His drive had not been anything to write to the golfing journals about, but he was picking up the technique of the game.

  24. He has just come back from a golfing holiday.

  25. As a rule, he confined himself to golfing by himself in the mornings and late evenings when the links were more or less deserted.

  26. Speaking of Marcus Aurelius and the golfing temperament recalls to my mind the case of young Mitchell Holmes.

  27. How few men, says the Oldest Member, possess the proper golfing temperament!

  28. Rupert Dixon was rather an unpleasant young man, but the worst of his enemies could not accuse him of not possessing the golfing temperament.

  29. His," said the Sage, "is the only case of golfing garrulity I have ever known where a permanent cure was affected.

  30. A man who could retain through his golfing career the almost scornful confidence of the non-player would be unbeatable.

  31. It is now three o'clock and this is the golfing season in New York," Gray told him.

  32. One of those golfing miracles, a forty-foot putt, would halve the match, to be sure, but in tournament golf miracles have a way of occurring on any except the deciding hole.

  33. They are occupied with the familiar Copenhagen round, golfing every day at beautiful Klampenborg, and are going to the Fryjs' magnificent place for a visit, and later to Norway chez les Loewenskiold.

  34. To-day what started out to be a little golfing lunch, gathered together by N.

  35. The course is laid over fine natural Golfing country.

  36. Her answer came to St. Andrews, at a jolly, golfing sort of hotel where I ought to have been as happy as the day was long.

  37. Illustration] Golfing is played with a club and ball.

  38. Very likely his golfing is more interesting because of the side bets, than because of the exercise.

  39. At Honolulu I spent a most enjoyable two weeks, golfing a little, surf riding, etc.

  40. The bracing atmosphere suggests golf and all other kinds of sport, and golfing there is of the very best kind.

  41. In the famous Happy Valley I had several days' golfing with a naval friend, and we played very badly.

  42. Each act was sportsman-like--a fine expression of the golfing spirit.

  43. She had seen the three many times during the summer from her bedroom windows, Aurora, Steve and McLemore, but the thought of Aurora having a tenderness for the golfing automaton had never for a moment entered her mind.

  44. A new golfing era has begun," said Patricia, with the air of a prophet.

  45. Above his dress trousers he wore a golfing waistcoat and a shooting jacket.

  46. Somehow I felt responsible for the golfing honor of my country.

  47. So, after a few more fruitless protests, I reluctantly laid aside the paper and pencils, changed to golfing regalia and, with my bag of clubs on my shoulder, joined the two young people on the lawn.

  48. At the first tee a man arrayed in the perfection of natty golfing togs was practicing his "swing.

  49. Ordinary walking and graduated walking or graduated hill climbing and golfing are good exercise for these patients.

  50. Anthony was golfing and Grace and Howard had motored out of town for luncheon.

  51. The locality begins to feel, as one might say, like a great golfing centre.

  52. Well, in the House he is always filling up his spare time with the development of some golfing idea or other.

  53. III Choosing a companion for a golfing holiday is at all times a serious business, and the light and thoughtless manner in which some young people perform the task is, in the interests of their own future golfing welfare, deplorable.

  54. He was right, M'Kellar's golfing cupidity was too much for him.

  55. I am told by my golfing directory that at Umtala, in Rhodesia, "the course consists of nine holes.

  56. He went out to play his round by day, and he foregathered the same evening with the others of his golfing society and celebrated the day as many persons say that a good day should be celebrated.

  57. And how the boys will go skating on Dunsappi Loch, and golfing over Bruntsfield Links.


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