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Example sentences for "ongoings"

Lexicographically close words:
onexpected; onfall; ongle; ongles; ongoing; ongrateful; onhappy; oni; onia; onian
  1. A bare uniformity of connexionaEuro"if A, then BaEuro"in accordance with the familiar ongoings of Nature and our common activities, is all that is assumed.

  2. Thus was the Captain's way made smooth to him, and the country side soon became as full of his ongoings with "the parson's girl" as ever it had been about his intrigue with Sally Wanless.

  3. Henry Slocome, for Thomas had but a dim recollection of it, his attention being too much occupied watching the ongoings of the farmers.

  4. We listen to tales of servants' misdeeds, we talk of clothes and the ongoings of our neighbours, and we never let on that we would rather talk of poetry.

  5. Mhor had no words to express his pleasure, but in an ecstasy of gratitude he seized the engine-driver's grimy hand and kissed it, leaving that honest man, who was not accustomed to such ongoings considerably confused.

  6. Religion may thus be made to steal unawares, even during ordinary hours, into the commonest ongoings of life.

  7. Intermingling with the lighter and more elastic footsteps of your Southron dames, the ongoings of our native virgins produce a pleasant variety of motion in the forenoon mêlée that along the Street of Princes now goes nodding in the sun-glint.

  8. But it is also true that we transfer our inward feelings to their outward condition, and with our religious spirit imbue all the ongoings of animated and even inanimated life.

  9. Not otherwise could all the ongoings of this world be continued.

  10. But when at home--which he often is for weeks together--he attaches himself to all the ongoings of rural life, as devotedly as if a plougher of the soil instead of the sea.


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