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Example sentences for "hounding"

Lexicographically close words:
houms; hound; hounde; hounded; houndes; hounds; houp; hour; houre; hourely
  1. Whitney Stoddard is hounding you in every possible way to make you give up your mine, and after I refused to give back my stock he set out deliberately to ruin me!

  2. I'm going to break that man, Jepson, if only as an example to these upstarts who are hounding Navajoa.

  3. Who are these people who seem to be hounding you?

  4. If you disappear, Thessa, those German rats may become discouraged and give up hounding you.

  5. What business have Governments hounding down these women, tearing away their last shred of decency and obliging them if inclining to go wrong to sink at once to the lowest depths of infamy?

  6. An educated public opinion, freed from the legal and moral hounding of the prostitute, can alone help to ameliorate present conditions.

  7. Archie, even more than Flaherty, was driven to crime and death by the cruel inhumanity of his surroundings, and by the unscrupulous hounding of the machinery of the law.

  8. Why, hasn't your father been hounding me for months to get his hands on that stock?

  9. And as for hounding your father to his death, the Old Man never even knew about it.

  10. I'm not hounding you; Lawton never harmed you, and now he is dead.

  11. But your men are hounding me, following me, shadowing me!

  12. She don't mind a bit about my hounding her father down, because she sees how it all had to be, and the old man's a regular brick about it!

  13. What do you think to gain by coming here--by hounding me--by hounding me?

  14. But, glancing over his shoulder, he saw a hounding form behind, catching him as though he were walking.

  15. On these occasions, he twirled the wheel himself and seemed to take a savage pleasure in hounding the schooner along, and several times he had her with half the deck under lee water and threatening to jump the masts over the side.

  16. Around its splintered base the mighty combers of a world-around wind-hounding smashed themselves in acres of foam, roaring and hissing in sullen fury at the implacability of the rock which forever bars their passage.

  17. As a sailor, he was far ahead of the other two boys--thanks to Hinkel's hounding and Nickerson's drilling.

  18. THE storm and peril overpast, The hounding hatred shamed and still, Go, soul of freedom!

  19. She dared the scornful laugh of men, The hounding mob, the slanderer's pen.

  20. Present symptoms: Fixed delusions of a self-accusatory nature, delusions of persecution; accused a medical officer whom he had never seen before as being among those who were hounding him.

  21. He wants to expiate his crime to escape those who are continually hounding him.

  22. The writer circulated the first petition to get the law enacted prohibiting the hounding of deer.

  23. Now, under these conditions it was next to impossible to get any one who knew anything about the transaction to make a complaint, or even be a witness against those transgressors of the deer or hounding law.

  24. I wish to say right here, that I do not like this way of hunting deer but little better than I do of hounding and running deer with dogs.

  25. The woman you are still hounding and hating earned the money by the sweat of her brow that saved your life.

  26. But you--you with one man's baby on your breast went on hounding the wife of another who had won what you couldn't get.

  27. He kept a-hounding her to write to her father and nigh drove her crazy; so she left him.

  28. He had been following one of the members of the embassy staff, who saw he was being shadowed, turned suddenly on the man, and exclaimed, "Why are you hounding us still?

  29. Isn't it bad enough to hound him, without hounding me, too?

  30. Would you chuck me over if I were disgraced and all the world hounding me?

  31. Pole lived to make atonement for his liberalism by hounding on the persecutions in England, and Morone by becoming the champion of ultramontanism at the close of the Council of Trent.

  32. Bloody" Mary in England was hounding on her officials to burn Knox's co-religionists, and the Reformation, which had made so much progress under Edward VI.

  33. Moreover, all the power I possess will be devoted to hounding you out of that profession you have dishonoured.

  34. There was no howling hounding on of each other.

  35. He was hounding at the heels of the last smuggler, and the Gentleman was hounding at his.

  36. Kit saw it all as he had seen it then: the tail of Grenadiers, the pursuing Parson, the hounding Gentleman.

  37. The Grenadier, hounding with huge strides, was already almost there.

  38. The Gentleman was hounding at the other's heels, swift, silent, terrible.

  39. The grasping and hounding is at an end, and no competition is left (as so often now) without fruit, because with every stroke of labor an adequate supply of the needful is brought into the house.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hounding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggravation; annoyance; bore; bother; devilment; difficulty; dogging; drag; exasperation; harassment; headache; nuisance; oppression; persecution; pest; problem; pursuance; pursuit; sequel; sequence; series; shadowing; tailing; trailing; trial; trouble; vexation; worry