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Example sentences for "motoring"

Lexicographically close words:
motorcar; motorcycle; motorcycles; motorcyclist; motored; motorist; motorists; motorized; motorman; motormen
  1. We'll see about that; you wouldn't have had that wild motoring expedition if I had been on the spot, you young madcap!

  2. In another minute they had passed the great gates and were motoring up the laurel-bordered drive to the house.

  3. It had nearly broken his heart when his master decided to give up the horses and take to motoring instead.

  4. Did Rosenberg make love to you that day you went motoring with him?

  5. The rain which had so interfered with Rosenberg's plans, and spoiled the close of the motoring day, seemed to mark also the end of summer.

  6. Nine-year-old Virginia waited, all that terrible day, and part of the night, for the return of the motoring party.

  7. He wants to have one good day's motoring for the last, and as the driving does you so much good, I have arranged to stay with Pansy and leave you free to go with him.

  8. But presently Char came downstairs in her fur coat and heavy motoring veil, carrying a huge sheaf of papers and a small bag.

  9. Char, pacing up and down the sheltered platform with the fur collar of her motoring coat turned up, and her hands deep in its wide pockets.

  10. A trailer goes ahead with the servants and outfit, so that when the motoring party arrives on the scene all is in readiness for their comfort.

  11. Once while we were motoring we came to a disused railway spur, and were surprised to find a large and fussy engine getting up steam while a crowd blocked the road for some distance.

  12. No, we can't close the house and go motoring for a week, because there is no one with whom to leave the puppies.

  13. Illustration] THE GYPSY TRAIL A friend of mine once wrote an article on motoring in Southern California for one of the smart Eastern magazines.

  14. Nor is motoring particularly expensive, for an excellent seven-passenger car of a well-known American make can be hired for forty dollars a day.

  15. In many respects, motoring is more comfortable than railway travel.

  16. His color was a little high, his eyes, beneath the peak of his motoring cap profoundly apologetic, but he was easier in manner than Diane.

  17. His visitor was sadly white and tired, with heavy lines about his sullen mouth and the dust of the highway upon his motoring rig.

  18. She went motoring with Strathdene late one night in a car he had hired.

  19. If Gilfoyle could catch Dyckman taking Anita motoring across the State line into New Jersey or Connecticut he could arrest them or threaten them.

  20. They had a little imitation honeymoon and went a-motoring on Sunday out into the lands where June was embroidering the grass with flowers and shaking the petals off the branches where young fruit was fashioning.

  21. And on this night you went motoring with defendant?

  22. The other house-guests were motoring or darting about the twilit tennis-court or trading in the gossip-exchange at the Casino.

  23. If motoring with Jonah to Huntercombe, and playing golf all day, is not incompatible with taking a stall on Thursday, I will sell children's underwear and egg cosies with eclat.

  24. You've gone motoring when you should have been in the gym and after the ball.

  25. Now, with spring here, they will be motoring and forgetting us for awhile.

  26. And, Anthony, dear, will you bring me my motoring bonnet?

  27. Anthony pointed at the motoring bonnet lying on the table next to the rose basket, wherein, hidden by the stalks and leaves, was the morocco letter case.

  28. Those who like motoring perhaps go for a drive, or to a neighbor's house for bridge, or neighbors come in for tea.

  29. There is no etiquette of motoring that differs from all other etiquette.

  30. Watching Wibley when he came down to Hythe, Quarles found he had a liking for motoring on the Dymchurch Road.

  31. The Elizabethan house, built on to the partial ruins of an old castle, has no doubt attracted many of you when motoring through South Berkshire.

  32. Mariette had brought coffee to her mistress's stateroom very early, but Carmen was not averse to the suggestion of breakfast at the hotel before motoring over the mountains.

  33. But somehow she contrived that Miss Dene should not be of the motoring party for the Seventeen-Mile Drive.

  34. That will save Nick motoring here and back, and give him a chance to keep his engagement at six, with those men, and no danger of a breakdown with his car.

  35. If a woman is at all inclined to be nervous she had better not try motoring in Japan, even in a car, except on well-known roads.

  36. Motoring is just beginning to be popular in Japan.

  37. I was by this time very definitely aware that I had my fill of winter motoring in the mountains.

  38. Illustration: I was by this time very definitely aware that I had my fill of winter motoring in the mountains.

  39. Two men and one old woman made gestures of abject vassalage, and my uncle replied with a lordly gesture of his great motoring glove.

  40. I wore sealskin motoring boots and gloves, and a motoring fur coat over my tweeds, and I controlled the engine by Bowden wires and levers forward.

  41. He had wired, it seemed, to say that he was motoring down that night.

  42. Motoring was a new excitement, for at home it was forbidden; and a meditative rapture shone in her wide eyes above her sudden little nose.

  43. They met seldom, it is true, for most of his day was spent in motoring and speaking, and most of Courtier's in writing and riding, his leg being still too weak for walking.

  44. The two spent their time in a little summer-house close to the sea; lying out on the beach under the groynes; and, as Miltoun grew stronger, motoring and walking on the Downs.

  45. Lord Boredom," he said, "is motoring Miss Moover to Town just in time for her performance.

  46. Next day they were going back to London, they were dining with Jimmie, motoring with him.

  47. I have often felt a little strained and uncomfortable in the knees when motoring for more than an hour or two.

  48. Motoring as practiced in Great Britain to-day (and the northern continent is little better) is the direct and intentional abrogation of the Golden Rule.

  49. But even so, this is on the heights of motoring generosity.

  50. They dragged the man's body on to a chair, wrapped a huge coat around him, tied a motoring cap under his chin, fixed goggles over his eyes.

  51. No one will see him inside the car, in that motoring coat and glasses.

  52. What in the world has happened to send him motoring down here at ten o'clock in the morning?

  53. Bert fiercely, pulling off his coat and tossing his motoring cap after it to the ground.

  54. Motherly Mrs. Bentley laid aside her motoring dust coat and marshaled the girls for the various tasks to which she assigned them.


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