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Example sentences for "recognising"

Lexicographically close words:
recognisance; recognisances; recognise; recognised; recognises; recognition; recognitions; recognizable; recognizably; recognizance
  1. Till this moment the uproar in Welbeck's mind appeared to hinder him from distinctly recognising his visitant.

  2. The Holy Spirit will deal with them as He does with us, and recognising them as fellow-workers together with God, we shall cease to hinder them by perpetual criticism and doubt.

  3. He had found in it a sign that Trix was yielding, coming to a sensible frame of mind, recognising what seemed to him so obvious--the power he had over her and her attraction towards him.

  4. Much the best way,' she agreed, recognising a stolid courage in him which commanded some admiration.

  5. And so recognising that the hatred between himself and his wife was irremediable owing to the influence of bitter enmity in a previous birth, he abandoned grief and bewilderment.

  6. When Hansavali heard that, she looked at them, and recognising that bard, she cried out with renewed grief; "Alas!

  7. And she gave him that citron, which was large and fine, and he, recognising it, asked her whence she procured it.

  8. And they took him before that king, and the king recognising him, supposed that he was again saying what was untrue, as he had done before.

  9. When Sumanas heard that, she uncovered her face and looked at him, and recognising her uncle, she embraced his feet weeping.

  10. One looked it well in the face, I seem to remember, this extravagance; and with the effect precisely of recognising the charm of the problem.

  11. Now and then he stretched out his neck, gazed down into the valley, and, recognising some of his kind below, uttered a shrill neigh.

  12. Judge my surprise on recognising in the horse the black stallion that was yesterday ridden by the cibolero!

  13. While recognising her as some one he knew, had Wallenstein thought of her in any close relation to himself?

  14. Had he sought to propitiate Wallenstein, and had Wallenstein, recognising his duty to the Emperor, taken this circuitous way of returning it to the messenger, knowing full well what penalty he might otherwise expect?

  15. They sprang to their feet, as one man, recognising the futility of any further attempt at concealment; and a chief named Lualamba came forward and modestly acknowledged himself to be the leader of the band.

  16. In recognising sympathy as a "purely disinterested" impulse,[57] Mr Bain breaks loose at an important point from the psychology of Bentham.

  17. The egoism of external prudence may indeed be transcended by recognising that the pleasures and pains of others are sources of sympathetic feeling in ourselves.

  18. Gabrielle, recognising from Charles's jealousy and Barillon's anxiety to what profit to himself he could put certain letters her Grace had had the imprudence to write him, refused to quit Whitehall.

  19. Among his many shining endowments he possessed the royal faculty of recognising and appreciating talent in others.

  20. Each one maintained his rights, while recognising another's.

  21. Two of the soldiers who were prowling over the field of battle, having come near the reformer without recognising him, "Do you wish for a priest to confess yourself?

  22. It was not until after I had learned who it was, that I succeeded in recognising a person who had been sitting with me that very morning.

  23. He suppressed a gesture of fright on recognising the horseman of whom we are speaking.

  24. Then I imagined their recognising with a blush and a shrug that she was unteachable, irreformable.

  25. I had now no difficulty in recognising my friend of whom I had bought the wine.

  26. The people here content themselves with recognising the clothes.

  27. I had no difficulty in recognising in him a countryman.

  28. The man was dressed in good clothes; and it was this that prevented me at first from recognising him as the person who had met my two companions at the station seven months before.

  29. No reader can peruse the following pages without recognising the true affection for his wife that is transparent in Borrow’s letters to her.

  30. We have no difficulty in recognising here the heroine of the Moll Flanders episode in Lavengro.

  31. They were unlike, as though recognising the difference set between them by the circumstances of their births.

  32. Many of the little tricks and affectations which became painfully obtrusive in Dickens's later works I had no difficulty in recognising under their Russian garb.

  33. Recognising that the danger could be averted only by inducing the peasantry to adopt a more intensive system of agriculture, it directed more and more of its attention to agricultural improvements, and tried to get them adopted.

  34. While recognising that there was much uncertainty as to the future, I was inclined, on the whole, to take a hopeful view of the situation.

  35. They remained undivided, partly from the influence of patriarchal conceptions, but chiefly because the proprietors, recognising the advantage of large units, prevented them from breaking up.

  36. Recognising her, he had stopped to enquire if she were still receiving her full salary.

  37. For a fraction of a moment John Dene gazed at the apparition in front of him, not recognising Dorothy in the white frock and large hat that shaded her eyes.

  38. At a little after four Marjorie Rogers knocked at the door and, recognising Dorothy's "Come in," entered stealthily as if expecting someone to jump out at her.


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