Then, too, she had been probing her young doctor, and had made interesting discoveries about him.
Do you think if you wentprobing into their secret affairs, you'd have had much pleasure in their company afterwards?
She suspected this young man of not telling all his ideas to his multi-millionaire patients, and she was entertained by the prospect of probing him.
And then, with her old untrained probing after reality: "How do I know I am not dreaming?
She took her daughter's face between her hands, her eyes probing and yearning down into the brilliantly blue ones.
We had lost our medicine chest in the wreck; we had only little packages of bandages for skirmishes; but noprobing instrument, no scissors, were at hand.
Von Mackensen's "Phalanx" was advancing two mighty tentacles guided by a master mind, remorselessly probing for the enemy's strongest points.
But when it came toprobing into and reading the whole mind, into its past thoughts and knowledges, no.
Hanlon had been probing Abrams' mind all this time, but had been unable to get any clue as to a plot that might upset the peace of his world, or the Federation.
But Hanlon's mind-probing was receiving approbation now.
Hanlon, probing the other minds present, was secretly amused at their astonishment at his temerity .
His mind-probing had not yet reached an answer to those important questions.
He was still probing with everything he had, but still getting nothing important.
His mind-probing had convinced him they were high enough in the scale of evolution to know the meaning of gratitude, and he could tell they were repaying his kindness with co-operation.
I want you to consider this very seriously," he said slowly, grimly, and Hanlon's probing mind caught the aura of importance in his manner.
The emperor sat upright, his face showing the utmost incredulity, but Hanlon's mind-probing had prepared him for the reaction, so he was not surprised to note neither dismay nor regret.
Franklin looked fixedly at her for some time as though probing what there must be of pain for her in this avowal.
She found herself that afternoon, when she and Helen were alone at tea, sounding her, probing her, for reassuring symptoms of warmth or affection.
From time to time, one of the sextons, almost always a male, comes out and walks round the animal, which he explores, probing its velvet coat.
Her eyes, which were greenish-grey, and often ironical lest they should reveal her soul, seemed probing a blue gown displayed in that window, to the very heart of its desirability.
Probing brought nothing out, and I did not ask a single question.
Probing along with the oar I found a cove and a shallow bottom, and there I beached our craft with a great shove.
Ato's instruments were probing space for a sign of the Old Ship.
When power enough was available she began probing the dust-cloud as though nothing had happened.
It was impossible to trace its depth further than the 3d rib, although probing was resorted to; it was therefore considered a simple wound, and dressed accordingly.
You need scarcely hope to see the probing performance because earth-worms, like mice, come out of their holes after dark, which is why snipe are most active then.
Whenever you see little groups of clean-cut holes dotted over the earth in low, wet ground, you may know that either the woodcock or Wilson's snipe has been there probing for worms.
The rest of the family who drill holes in a tree harmlessly, even beneficially, do so because they are probing for insects.
Be sure the crow is pulling corn, and not probing for grubs, before you kill him.
The reason for it was that through all the probing which these gentlemen were trying to pick up little pieces of evidence in the form of shell fragments, they were unable to locate any.
Did any doctor make any statement about the results of his probing effort?
He even took to probing the darkness in a strange hope to catch the glimmer of the eyes of Donnegan as he moved to the attack.
Indeed, she seemed to be probing him, searching with a peculiar hope.
He lowered his hand with the same slow precision and folded it with the other, all the time probing Donnegan with his difficult eyes.
Belle had been studying, analyzing, probing the things that were coming down through that hellish tube.
Probing into and through various buildings, he learned that groups of people were quitting work at intervals of about fifteen minutes.
The tip of another huge arm snaked out and for some seconds stroked his body, probing curiously.
They thrashed the shadows with their beams, probing each inch of water--clearing their way even as a tank hoses machine-gun bullets before its clumsy body.
How could Sophy tolerate these stupid people," Fuchsia asked herself, "with their sharp, probing questions and heavy jokes?
To her it seemed that Sophy's confidences were frozen; she rarely mentioned her aunt, and gave evasive answers to her friend's probing inquiries.
If partial probing could achieve so much, what was the ultimate power of this remarkable mind?
The conflict of his soul communicated a severity of earnestness to his voice and manner which made Agnes tremble, as he put one probing question after another, designed to awaken some consciousness of sin in her soul.
Presently he meets with an empty shell, and, after probing it carefully with his claw to be sure it is not tenanted, he pops into it back foremost in a twinkling, and settles himself in his new house.
With this object undoubtedly in view, the Germans indulged in a succession of feints up and down the whole frontier, feeling and probing the line at all points.
For a month the Germans had been hammering and probing at Loos, Givenchy, Armentières, and other points with the evident object of finding a weak spot.
He was probing for her thoughts with keen, narrowed eyes.
Norton's eyes, probing into every square foot of the chamber, took stock of Jim Galloway, and beyond him of Kid Rickard, slouching forward in a chair and rolling a cigarette.
Norton allowed himself the luxury of a mystifying smile as Pete Nuñez lifted probing eyes to his face.
As their hands met for a little she saw a new, deeplyprobing look in his eyes, a look to be understood.
Some one was probing my soul, speculating on my spiritual worth or worthlessness, with an intensely earnest yet cold calculation.
Some penetrating influence was probing me through and through, with a quiet but intensely powerful directness.
Throughout the day, CEO's routinely talk to other corporate leaders as friends, acquaintances, for brain picking and G2, market probing in the course of business.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "probing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
