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Example sentences for "mounting"

Lexicographically close words:
mounte; mountebank; mountebanks; mounted; mounteth; mountings; mounts; mourant; mourir; mourn
  1. Mounting the steps once more, we come to the niche containing the pillar to which Jesus was bound when they crowned him with thorns.

  2. After once more mounting to the brim, we walked round a great part of the edge of the basin.

  3. On mounting to the deck this morning at five o'clock I could distinguish the island of Cyprus, which looks uglier the nearer we approach.

  4. Nothing is to be gained by mounting into this dark narrow receptacle but the glory of being able to say, "I have been there!

  5. Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods.

  6. Mounting the shore, he gives a long signal snort, which alarms every animal within hearing, and dashes away.

  7. The lark never perches on a tree, and sings only when mounting in the air, and builds her nest on the ground.

  8. He then threw down his purse on the table, bid them a farewell, and mounting his horse, took the road that led to the parish in which the worthy curate lived.

  9. There are two ways of mounting your specimens.

  10. He remembered every step of the way, what he might find if he could sweep off the snow or wait until June and let the mounting sun sweep it according to its own method.

  11. Now he was telling his own religious experience, with a mounting fervor ready to froth over into frenzy.

  12. For Dick, he thought again, what is known as love was a simple, however overwhelming, matter of the mounting blood, the growing year.

  13. All this, of course, began before you went away, and it continued in mounting volume.

  14. Then Raven, in a sudden mounting of desire to show Tira how sorry he was for her, said to her impetuously: "I hate to leave you alone.

  15. This was a day brightly blue, with mounting warmth, the road a smoothness of packed snow.

  16. He looked like a man far gone in age and misery, and Tira, returning from the bedroom, the child in her arms, felt a mounting of compassion and was no longer afraid.

  17. Nan felt the mounting of spirit due a healthy body, with the new day, and made her toast and her coffee with a great sense of the pleasure of it all.

  18. Raven felt the blood mounting to his face, she was so movingly beautiful in this scene of honest but unlovely mediocrity.

  19. Raven was not, if Nan could forestall the possibility, to be assaulted by mounting waves of family animosity.

  20. Swimming back, he drew on his clothes, and mounting to the garden, threw himself face down upon the grass, and fell asleep under the morning sun.

  21. But she was quick to reassure him, her courage mounting to sustain his.

  22. Men sat idle in their offices reading edition after edition of the papers, rage mounting in their hearts.

  23. But even as she moved, dismay visible on her face, the perverse devil which had been mounting in Stefan's brain attained the mastery.

  24. After running out through Portsmouth, I suggested stopping the car and mounting the downs above, on foot, for a look at the view.

  25. We were under Cadir Idris, mounting the pass high above a deep ravine; yet the blowing rain hid the mountain from our eyes as if he were the veiled prophet.

  26. The iron mounting of coach work requires the skill of experienced smiths, and gives scope for much taste and judgment in shaping the work, and providing strength suited to the relative strain to which it will be subjected.

  27. The mitring up of frames, the mounting and fitting up of paintings, engravings, &c.

  28. A very suitable method of mounting an electric motor is illustrated in Figs.

  29. Care must be taken in mounting the motor in this way.

  30. Then mounting on his milk-white steed, He, shaking his ears, was ready, And whip and spur he rid with speed To find out this crafty lady.

  31. As Lord Lovel was at the stable-door, Mounting his milk-white steed, Who came by but poor Nancy Bell, And she wished Lovel good speed.

  32. One thought was mounting in his brain- the scorn of Rose.

  33. Mounting Olympus, she inquired whether Ferdinand was within hail, as they were pledged to dance the first dance together.

  34. Virgil places the Heron among the birds that are affected by and foretell the approaching storm: “When watchful Herons leave their watery stand, And mounting upward with erected flight, Gain on the skies, and soar above the sight.

  35. They raised poor Charles Hawker up, and Sam, mounting Dick's horse, took the wounded man up before him, and started to go slowly home.

  36. I got up, and, mounting my horse, turned homeward.

  37. He turned towards the snow, and mounting his horse, which he had led up the cliff, held steadily westward.

  38. The Pallas was a frigate of thirty-two guns, and the Countess of Scarborough a single-decked ship, mounting twenty six-pounders.

  39. Meda cried, in mounting the flight of steps, "Long live Robespierre!

  40. The carcasses were packed on Ben's horse, both boys mounting Baldy.

  41. He sat looking at his glass full of the clear and luminous liquor while its light soul, its intoxicating soul, flew off in tiny bubbles mounting from its depths in hurried succession to die on the surface.

  42. DUSK Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress; Each chimney's vapour, like a thin grey rod, Mounting aloft through miles of quietness, Pillars the skies of God.

  43. So hearken thou like these, Intent on her, mounting by slow degrees, Until thy song's elation Echoes her multitudinous meditation.

  44. Mounting the steep hillside behind the Caves, Grôm turned into a high, winding ravine, and was soon lost to the sight of the tribe.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mounting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; accession; accumulation; addition; advance; aerial; airy; amplification; appreciation; ascendant; ascending; ascent; aspiring; axial; back; backing; backward; ballooning; bearing; boom; boost; buildup; bushing; career; chassis; climb; climbing; colossal; course; crescendo; current; descending; descent; development; direction; downward; drift; drifting; edema; elevated; elevation; eminent; enlargement; ethereal; exalted; expansion; extension; flight; flood; flow; flowing; fluent; flux; flying; fountain; frame; gain; going; growth; gush; haughty; high; hike; increase; increment; inflation; jet; jump; leap; leaping; levitation; lofty; monumental; mount; mounting; multiplication; ongoing; onrush; passage; passing; pedestal; plunging; production; productiveness; progress; progressive; proliferation; prominent; raise; rampant; rearing; refluent; reflux; regression; regressive; rehearsal; retrogression; retrogressive; rise; rising; rotary; run; running; rush; rushing; saltatory; setting; sideward; sinking; skeleton; soaring; spiraling; spout; spread; spring; spurt; steep; stream; streaming; sublime; superlative; supernal; surge; swelling; takeoff; topless; topping; towering; trend; tumescence; upcoming; upgrade; uphill; uplift; uplifted; uprise; uprising; upsurge; upturn; upward; vault; widening