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Example sentences for "leaning over"

  • Don't take it all so seriously," he said, leaning over as if he might plead with her.

  • Leaning over a plate, with a desperation quite unlike himself, he took an enormous bite.

  • He may lie sitting up in bed; he may be standing, leaning over a chair; he may be sitting in a chair leaning over a table or leaning over the back of another chair; but he is using every auxiliary muscle he possesses to respire.

  • A bullet even ploughed his shoulder; but Kennedy, leaning over, and discharging his rifle with one hand, brought another of the enemy to the ground.

  • Joe, leaning over, saw the savage that had clung to the car whirling over and over, with his arms outstretched in the air, and presently dashed to pieces on the ground.

  • Bill, leaning over to thump him on the back, while Tom clutched the Osprey with both hands, determined that she should not escape.

  • As he finished speaking the young marauder, leaning over to the other boat, undid her painter, and hitching it to his own boat, shouted to his companions to row off again.

  • Stilwell inquired, leaning over in the tensity of his feeling, his tanned face growing pale, as if the thought of such atrocity turned his blood cold.

  • A spurt of speed and Morgan was beside him, leaning over, demanding the gun.

  • Morgan thrust the brand into the fire, piled wood around it, leaning over it a little in watchful intent.

  • And, leaning over Agatha, she breathed painfully and hard.

  • There was a light movement among the listening group, as Miss Valery was found quietly to have joined them, and to be leaning over Nathanael's shoulder.

  • At the bridge we stopped, leaning over, shoulder to shoulder, each of us under the spell of the silence which visited us, and afraid of the test that words would bring.

  • We broke out laughing and, leaning over, struck hands with a resounding clap.

  • A flash of gold on the gray scarf she had left behind her caught my eye and, leaning over, I picked up a little brooch I had always seen at her throat.

  • Ellen replied, leaning over her, and kissing her.

  • The boy let her hand go immediately, and stood up, leaning over her.

  • He drew his chair still closer, and, leaning over, touched with his stubby forefinger the rings on her outstretched hand.

  • She motioned to Slade, who, leaning over, blew out the remaining candle, while a little hysterical cry was heard from Mrs. Cheever.

  • But hereupon the fussy gentleman, leaning over, taps Mottle-face upon the shoulder.

  • Oh dem silver dishes,' hummed Rose gaily, leaning over to look, too.

  • Leaning over, he filled the cup with water, tilted his head back and drank.

  • Betty patted the puppy's head, leaning over so that Bob did not see the strange light in her eyes.

  • A girl, in a wonderful white dress, was standing there, leaning over to admire the great bunch of creamy-white blossoms, whilst a waiter respectfully held a chair for her.

  • There was a small miniature inside; Helene, leaning over, recognised it at once.

  • I tell you that little Pepper girl is going to make a sensation when she comes out," leaning over for a better view of the King party, "and the best of it is that she doesn't know it herself.

  • Don't tell me they are gone," cried the girl, leaning over to look for herself.

  • Leaning over him, on the other side, was Nannie, the old woman who had admitted them into the house.

  • Leaning over him, raising his right arm, as gingerly as if it had been a piece of delicate porcelain, she placed his dreadful, helpless fingers somehow about a pen.

  • She went still nearer, so that, by leaning over, she could examine him in detail.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaning over" 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:
    feel that; few hundred; formal garden; give evidence; good speech; great word; just above; leaning against; leaning back; leaning forward; leaning over; little rabbit; looking place; medical treatment; might happen; moral improvement; naval architecture; perfectly right; said concerning; small dose; space suit; then taken; west transept; what can; with every