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Example sentences for "replenishing"

Lexicographically close words:
replant; replanted; replanting; replenish; replenished; replenishment; replete; repletion; replevin; replica
  1. Meanwhile the crew were hard at work replenishing the coal-bunkers, filling up wood and water, taking in fresh provisions, and effecting the necessary repairs after the late cruise.

  2. Within this time the viceroy will succeed in replenishing his coffers.

  3. I myself, I confess, am at a loss to devise new means of replenishing my empty coffers.

  4. Boil it very fast for an hour, or more, after it has commenced boiling; replenishing the pot from a kettle of boiling water.

  5. It will bake very well, (replenishing the heat by throwing on from time to time a fresh supply of hot ashes,) and when taken out of the paper they will be found sweet and good.

  6. As soon as the loaf or pie is in, put on the lid of the oven, and cover it all over with hot coals, replenishing it with more live coals as the baking proceeds.

  7. By replenishing our great fires once an hour we spent the night comfortably.

  8. What I am concerned about is how to get something substantial to eat, for I foolishly came away from Granger's bungalow, where I stayed last night, without replenishing my stores, which had run low.

  9. He rose gently several times during the night, however, partly for the purpose of battling off his tendency to sleep, and partly for the purpose of replenishing the fire and keeping the soup warm.

  10. Meanwhile Captain Bunting had proceeded a considerable way on his solitary hunting expedition into the mountains, bent upon replenishing the larder with fresh provisions.

  11. Meanwhile, the steward took the opportunity of surreptitiously replenishing Ralph's pannikin, and still more surreptitiously emptying his own upon the ground.

  12. A third was replenishing his pouch from that of a dead comrade, with grim apologies to the corpse.

  13. I occupied in writing up my notes, working out computations of astronomical observations, classifying the botanical and geological specimens collected during the day, and replenishing my cameras with new plates.

  14. I certainly spent not less than twenty minutes constantly replenishing the magazine, and not a single cartridge went off.

  15. It is a carriage attached to the locomotive, of which the purpose is to contain coke for feeding the furnace, and water for replenishing the boiler.

  16. So soon as they begin to simmer, throw off the first water, replenishing with hot, and stew until they are boiled to pieces.

  17. Stew gently for an hour, keeping the water at the original level by replenishing from the tea-kettle.

  18. Boil slowly four hours, replenishing with boiling water should the broth sink to less than two-thirds of the original quantity.

  19. Cook in this one hour with the onion, replenishing from the kettle as it boils away.

  20. When they have boiled slowly two hours, and been often skimmed, put in the sliced vegetables and herbs, and cook three hours longer, replenishing with boiling water as the liquid sinks.

  21. I had a splendid chance of replenishing our larder, and, fool that I was, I missed it.

  22. Upon her devolve the extra tasks of filling out the ranks of workers in the war industries, in addition to caring for the children and replenishing the war-diminished population.

  23. She was replenishing the ranks of the prostitutes, furnishing grist for the criminal courts and inmates for prisons.

  24. In mining, as already suggested, the business is one of selling off the stock in trade without replenishing it.

  25. The beaux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it.

  26. While moderate in personal expenditure, Julius resorted to objectionable means of replenishing the papal treasury, which had been exhausted by Alexander VI.

  27. No drop of that clear stream its way shall miss To thy Sire's heart, replenishing its source[ph] With life, as our freed souls rejoin the Universe.

  28. I regard our immigrants as one of the principal replenishing streams which are appointed by Providence to repair the ravages of internal war and its wastes of national strength and health.

  29. By restraining the streams in flood and replenishing them in drought they make possible the use of waters otherwise wasted.

  30. With modern machinery a tramp can go to the ends of the earth without replenishing her coal supply.

  31. By the use of fresh feed water and replenishing it from the condensers, salting was prevented and the life of a boiler greatly increased.

  32. He leaned over to the woodpile from time to time, replenishing the blaze.

  33. A medley of snores resounded through the vast hut and from time to time he saw the squat figures of warriors replenishing their fires, murmuring to each other for a moment or two, then retiring again to their apartments to sleep.

  34. It's a perfect way of replenishing our food supply," and quite seriously both he and the Big Business Man laid aside some of their food.

  35. In a few minutes more they were at the edge of the river, bathing their wounds in its cooling water, and replenishing their drinking-bottles.


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