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Example sentences for "intending"

Lexicographically close words:
intendency; intendente; intendere; intendest; intendeth; intendment; intends; intense; intensely; intenseness
  1. Some other information regarding the Boers and South Africa will be found interspersed in this study, which will be found of use to the uninitiated and to intending emigrants to that sub-continent.

  2. Intending to go to our office, we saw there was nothing to hinder our doing so.

  3. It was formed to be sent forth, to he entrusted to forces stretching beyond the intending mind.

  4. It recalled the tragic story of John's father who years before left for America intending to send for his wife and crippled son.

  5. I was letting the other fellow fill up the ranks, intending hazily to rally to the colors myself when the need seemed greater.

  6. They were probably intending a blow at Madrid; and Jack saw in a flash that this might have a direct bearing on the movements contemplated by Sir John.

  7. Then, as there was obviously no time to parley, he rushed to the door and slammed it, intending to turn the key.

  8. So he immediately took passage on an English brig bound for Panama; intending to proceed by way of the Isthmus to New York.

  9. But when he was intending to cross once more to subdue the power of Gotrik, he was summoned by Leo the Pope of the Romans to defend the city.

  10. The earnest entreaties of the youth prevailed on Hother, and he went to Norway with an armed fleet, intending to achieve by arms the end which he could not by words.

  11. When Grep heard of his coming, he hastened down to the sea, intending to assail with chosen and pointed phrases the man whom he had heard was better-spoken than all other folk.

  12. The word you I use in the plural, intending it for McPherson also.

  13. The General after that made no effort to capture Jefferson Davis, and regretted that he did not reach the schooner in which he was intending an escape to Cuba.

  14. He was strangled in his bedroom by one of his concubines, Marcia, with the assistance of others, all of whom he was intending to kill.

  15. Marius escaped from Italy, and, intending to go to Africa, was landed at Minturnae.

  16. Meanwhile I would drive to Charing Cross, and might yet be in time to intercept the couple if they were intending to depart for France.

  17. Captain Tarwell had constructed it with his own hands, intending it as a home for himself and his only son, Jerry.

  18. Snow White had circled the big black rock as if intending to settle on it.

  19. Lydia's going to Brighton was all that consoled her for her melancholy conviction of her husband's never intending to go there himself.

  20. They were of course all intending to be surprised; but their astonishment was beyond their expectation; and on the part of Mrs. Bennet and Kitty, though she was perfectly unknown to them, even inferior to what Elizabeth felt.

  21. Did he know of their intending to go off?

  22. Chapter 34 When they were gone, Elizabeth, as if intending to exasperate herself as much as possible against Mr. Darcy, chose for her employment the examination of all the letters which Jane had written to her since her being in Kent.

  23. Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.

  24. His most particular friend, you see by Jane's account, was persuaded of his never intending to marry her.

  25. I find myself tired, sir--and at the same time intending to get up.

  26. He took his hat once more intending to follow them out, but the mason, Thorein, and Chaffaroux stopped him as he was closing the door.

  27. Birotteau took him, and gave him a salary of a thousand francs, intending to make him eventually his successor.

  28. The painter who had come intending to have his bill settled, suddenly thought it more to his interest not to press Birotteau.

  29. He had counted on meeting Birotteau alone, intending to pose as the sovereign arbiter of his fate,--a legal Jupiter.

  30. There was a number of young chickens running around, and we had taken two of these, intending to leave word for Gran that the hawks had been about, and that the mice had been in the pickles and preserves.

  31. We were all pleased to hear him say this, and, though not intending it, Mateel let it be known that she was greatly interested in Jo.

  32. Daedalus' to-morrow for Malta; but, intending to visit Italy before their return, will not probably reach England for two or three months.

  33. I called in the evening, intending to ask her to accompany me for a walk, but she was surrounded by a brilliant company, among whom were several gentlemen, and all were paying her great attention.

  34. No answer being given, she went in quietly, intending to surprise Mrs. Thayer.

  35. Having thus disposed of his family, Kopri was now intending to join them.

  36. Guiding himself, therefore, by the stars, he struggled on for a while towards the hilly district south-westwards, intending presently to take refuge in some sheltered spot where he might pass the night.

  37. It was plain that he was intending to cross the strait now, for the man in charge of the launch was making preparations to start.

  38. Since that time he had been living on a few spoonfuls of meal a day, with frozen berries, and once or twice a ptarmigan, and when Ned found him was at the last extremity and had given up, intending to die where he was.

  39. Arthur had meantime been making a sled of birch, intending to pull it himself while the doctor and I pulled a Yukon sled borrowed from our friend the prospector.

  40. Yet he must be intending to strike at the English coming from Quebec?

  41. You cannot be intending to await these English!

  42. But supposing such a whim to have occurred to him, would he have set out on his walk evidently intending to be disguised--with a cloak wrapped round the fantastic costume in which he had been at the ball?

  43. I left that unhappy girl sleeping, intending to be absent from her but a few minutes.

  44. That he might have become tired of sitting still while she slept, and might have strayed away from her, not intending to quit her for more than a few minutes and a few yards, was also perfectly probable.

  45. It was three good hours later than she had supposed it to be; and she jumped up from her seat, intending to hasten home to Signora Orsola Steno.

  46. I reached it unmolested, but intending to throw any pursuer off the track, I dodged and doubled repeatedly on the way to my flat and arrived there about midnight, convinced that I had eluded pursuit--if indeed I had been pursued.

  47. He had actually passed out intending to return to his room, when he became aware of a slight draught.

  48. After a while the Tiger let himself down by a rope, butcher-knife in hand, intending to kill him.

  49. I thought he was intending to ask some of them to give us food.

  50. He clenched his sword with firm grip, and lay down on his bed, intending to keep awake all the night and see what would happen.

  51. They stole over toward him, intending to kill him, like the others who had been before him; but he was ready for them.

  52. Hodge faced toward this man, intending to fell him with the club.

  53. Pike was watching for a chance to escape, intending to make a dash for liberty at the first opportunity.

  54. But that worthy, believing that "he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day," was making tracks for the nearest window, intending to leap to the ground.


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