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Example sentences for "pedalling"

Lexicographically close words:
pedagogy; pedal; pedaled; pedaling; pedalled; pedals; pedant; pedantic; pedantically; pedantries
  1. Duncannon gate they marked Billy Gaston, head down, pedalling along over on Maple Street, his jaws keeping rhythmic time with his feet.

  2. Panting and puffing, pedalling with all his might, straining his eyes to see through the dark the car that was flying along without lights, his hair sticking endwise, his sleepy hungry face peering wanly through the dark, he plodded after.

  3. He sprang aboard his cycle and disappeared down the high road to St. Gwithian, pedalling like a squirrel on a treadmill, the tails of his new mackintosh spread like wings on the breeze.

  4. As he walked on he presently came up to where the other stood, with one foot on the ground, balancing his machine and ready to go on again slowly, pedalling as Dick tramped.

  5. Evidently the little motor had broken down while he was some distance away from home, necessitating considerable walking up hill and hard pedalling on the levels.

  6. He was of a Godlike kindness when his mind inclined to music, and the pedalling was skilful and sure.

  7. We'll turn the piano so that seeing how the pedalling is done won't distract their attention from the music.

  8. The dark figure on the machine, pedalling suddenly forward, made his way in front of the carriage, dismounted lightly, and threw down the cycle upon the ground in such a way that the horses could not proceed without stepping upon it.

  9. But I'm dead beat; pedalling that heavy old machine nearly biffed me.

  10. His breath became audible, his steering unsteady, his pedalling positively ferocious.

  11. He did so with a horrible swerve, and went pedalling off, riding very badly, as he was only too painfully aware.

  12. The morning is ushered in with a stiff head-wind, and the fever leaves me feeling anything but equal to pedalling against it when I mount my wheel at early daybreak.

  13. He is pedalling ambitiously along, with his umbrella under his left arm.

  14. In his drive he had seen several people of seemingly good position pedalling cheerfully through the lanes.

  15. As dusk fell he was pedalling along to Dereham Old Hall.

  16. Swinging the little car onto the rails, he placed the oil can on the platform between the arms, swung the lantern over the handlebars, mounted, and was off, pedalling with all his might.

  17. Lorania was still in the saddle, pedalling from sheer force of habit, and clinging to the handle bars.

  18. Pedalling my very hardest--and I can make good time when necessary--I still kept pretty much at the same distance in front of him all the way to Fraunheim.

  19. Mr. Purdie, back-pedalling tremendously, clutching at the brake, winding at the handles.

  20. Lorania was still in the saddle, pedalling from sheer force of habit, and clinging to the handle-bars.

  21. It was Chopin who systematized the art of pedalling and showed us how to use both pedals in combination to produce those wonderful effects of color which are so necessary in the performance of his music.

  22. Without pedalling of the most varied sort this study will remain as dry as a dog-gnawed bone.

  23. Down the beautiful valley of one of the Danube's tributaries I ride on Sunday morning, pedalling to the music of Blaubeuren's church-bells.

  24. Jerry became so limp with laughter, that he nearly ceased pedalling altogether.

  25. And Jerry put his whole heart into his pedalling and bore her at the top of his speed.

  26. A commander of the gendarmerie mounts the hillside on his bicycle, pedalling with all his strength.

  27. A quarter of an hour passes before he reappears, a streak, now pedalling back into the valley.

  28. For those who have not cultivated the art of quick pedalling the useful range of gear under favourable conditions may be extended to say 90 in.

  29. A back-pedalling brake is most conveniently applied inside the hub, as in the coaster hub.

  30. With a back-pedalling rim brake the cycle cannot be wheeled backwards unless a special device is used to throw the operating clutch out of action.

  31. The transverse stresses on the rear frame due to the action of pedalling are more severe than those due to the vertical load.

  32. For this purpose, an "exhaust valve lifter" is usually fitted, by means of which the exhaust can be kept permanently open, in order to relieve the resistance to pedalling which the compression stroke would otherwise offer.

  33. As the engine cannot run steadily at low speed, pedalling is resorted to for starting and for riding slowly through traffic.


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