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Example sentences for "repassing"

Lexicographically close words:
repartition; repas; repass; repasse; repassed; repast; repasts; repatriated; repatriating; repatriation
  1. All the bridges are now open, the barricades are in most cases being blown up, and people are passing and repassing freely for the first time since the day following the memorable bombardment.

  2. She will undoubtedly alight, and contrive some means of passing and repassing him--of touching him, if possible.

  3. One point, however, she did realize, that it was imprudent, and even dangerous, to carry on this conversation in a hall where a hundred persons were passing and repassing every minute.

  4. It was the season of migration, and the Indians from various distant parts were passing and repassing in great numbers.

  5. The curtain was down, but it was so thin that he could perceive the shadow of some one passing and repassing between it and the light.

  6. His only consolation was to repair nightly to his post of observation, and listen to her warbling; and if by chance he could catch a sight of her shadow, passing and repassing before the window, he thought himself most fortunate.

  7. The Duke of Marlborough repassing the Scarpe, encamped in the plains of Lens, from whence he advanced towards Aire, as if he had intended to attack the French lines in that quarter.

  8. His general officers advised him to repass the Geete; but he chose to risk a battle, rather than expose the rear of his army in repassing that river.

  9. He therefore contented himself with laying the country under contribution, reinforcing the garrisons of Casal, Pignerol, and Suza, and making preparations for repassing the mountains.

  10. We followed the duke through the extensive and straggling place, frequently buried up to the ankles in sand, from which the vegetation was worn by the constant passing and repassing of the inhabitants.

  11. The boats continued passing and repassing from the junks to the shore, in quick succession, laden with booty, and the men besmeared with blood!

  12. An irregular path made by the passing and repassing of someone's feet led up to the door.

  13. In passing and repassing it that evening, Rowena had vainly ransacked her guileful brain for an excuse to invade it.

  14. The assailants were repulsed with the loss of four thousand men, some hundreds of whom perished in repassing the Paglion, which had swelled to a surprising degree during the battle, in consequence of a heavy continued rain.

  15. They contemplated set, formal battles with both fleets in line ahead, sailing on parallel courses, or passing and repassing each other on opposite tacks, exchanging broadsides as the guns bore.

  16. The passing and repassing of troops gave the only movement observable in the streets.

  17. The glow of exercise fled from her cheeks, and she began to feel chilly and faint, and to think of returning home; but she shuddered at the thought of repassing the beggar's mangled corpse.

  18. As rain seldom falls the streets become very dry, and the steady passing and repassing of mules and heavy ox-carts, laden with sugar and molasses, cause the calcareous sand to rise and envelop everything.

  19. The trees hung heavy with leaves over his head, a fountain played and overflowed at his elbow, and the lamps of the fiacres passing and repassing on the Avenue of the Champs Elysees shone like giant fire-flies through the foliage.

  20. He became conscious, as he searched with growing impatience the faces of those passing and repassing before him, of how much the habit of going to Miss Morris for sympathy in his unlucky love-affair had grown of late upon him.

  21. The passing and repassing of boats and barges below; and carriages, horsemen, and pedestrians, crossing the bridge, alternately attracted his attention.

  22. There was no making a retreat without being discovered and harassed in repassing the river.

  23. They are connected by a bridge, the central part of which can be swung open, to allow of the passing and repassing of ships.

  24. This peculiarity is very advantageous to the port, as the great body of water, passing and repassing at every tide, keeps the navigation of the Mersey always open.

  25. Undoubtedly she was strikingly beautiful, for men in twos and threes were passing and repassing solely for the purpose of obtaining a glance at her.

  26. At noon next day Count Castellani, the Italian Ambassador to the Court of St James, stood at the window of his private room gazing out upon cabs and carriages passing and repassing around Grosvenor Square.

  27. Pulpers are also equipped with attachments that automatically move the imperfectly pulped material over into a repassing machine for another rubbing.

  28. They, too, are made in combinations employing cylindrical separators, shaking sieves, and repassing pulpers, for completing the pulping of all unpulped or partially pulped cherries.

  29. They made their way to the corridor and strolled slowly up and down, passing and repassing others who were discussing the music.

  30. She paced again on the sand, passing and repassing in front of the darkness of the bushes.


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