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Example sentences for "rounding"

Lexicographically close words:
roundels; rounder; rounders; roundheaded; roundhouse; roundish; roundle; roundly; roundness; rounds
  1. When, two hours later, on rounding a bend in the river, they sighted the camp of more than a hundred white men, their joy knew no bounds.

  2. Benito is rounding them up and cutting out the best ones.

  3. The stars had thickened and brightened, rounding the night sky into a glittering dome.

  4. Those Greasers are filling their jails with our people--rounding 'em up for the day of the big break--and the State Department knows it.

  5. For the structure is therein marked not at the Punta Campanella but, approximately, at Ierate itself, facing south, with the road from Stabiae over Surrentum rounding the promontory and terminating at the temple's threshold.

  6. On rounding a great bend, Fort Yates and the Standing Rock Agency were sighted.

  7. I pushed down on my course with all my strength in hope of finding the fire, and on rounding a sharp bend was rewarded by seeing a thin, blue streak curling up from the mountain side.

  8. A sudden change in the wind when they were rounding the point drove her into the breakers.

  9. Rounding a bend to the village street he observed a light burning brightly in a window.

  10. Lady Scattercash, as she caught view of the first batch rounding the corner to the front of the house.

  11. Rounding the turnip-hill beyond, the leading hounds were racing with a breast-high scent, followed by the pack in long-drawn file.

  12. Then they rode on, and were presently rounding Newington Hill themselves, the hounds packing well together, and carrying a famous head.

  13. I can't say as I ever was what you may call scar't after the first time rounding it, but it's not a pretty place.

  14. A shout of triumph from the pursuers, who were already rounding the head of the coombe, warned him that they had seen the catastrophe, and were prepared to take advantage of it.

  15. In fact, rounding the next hill, we discerned in the grassy valley below a number of black tents, two hundred yaks, and about a thousand sheep.

  16. It is like rounding off a corner that might otherwise be too angular or abrupt.

  17. Inside, the igloo was about ten feet in diameter, and rounding upward into a dome a foot or two above their heads.

  18. They were going toward an icy hill, and rounding this they saw at least a dozen bears.

  19. Having a steersman, gave our boat an advantage of rounding the Rock closely.

  20. A fresh trial found her again rounding the fact that Mr. Pole had not written to her, and again flying into consequent angers.

  21. She went out to the woods, and sat, shadowed by the long bent branch; watching mechanically the slow rounding and yellowing of the beam of sunlight over the thick floor of moss, up against the fir-stems.

  22. Rounding one of the rhododendron banks, just as he lifted his head from that acknowledgment of the lady's commendation, he had sight of Emilia with her hand in the hand of Captain Gambier.

  23. Rounding this they had sight of Brookfield.

  24. Rounding Ireland they headed first north and then west.

  25. Rounding Cape Farewell he explored the southern coast of Greenland and then made his way a certain distance up the west coast.

  26. Rounding Cape Race he visited once more the region explored in the previous summer, and then proceeded to follow the coast of our Nova Scotia and New England in search of Cipangu.

  27. Their heads, according to local legend, were cast into the Ebro, and, after floating out to sea and rounding the Iberian peninsula, are now preserved at Santander.

  28. Allow generously for this as it will have to be gathered in rounding the feet and head.

  29. This needs to be put on quickly as the plaster soon "sets" or hardens and in fifteen or twenty minutes it can be scraped and trimmed to a smooth, rounding surface.

  30. Rounding a shoulder of Gale's Ridge, he came in sight of Steele's shack.

  31. In a few moments they had passed through camp and, rounding the shoulder of old Dundee, settled down to the eighteen mile ride to the half-way house between Miners' Camp and Meeteetse.

  32. Looking towards the southeast, we saw the French cruiser rounding the headland which formed the eastern arm of the little bay, and she had already sent a shot across the water aimed at the brigantine.

  33. We hastened to our former position, reaching it just in time to see the brigantine again rounding the headland.

  34. The hides are trimmed at the rounding tables, and then bated in hen or pigeon dung for three days at 75 deg.

  35. A low, rounding doorway opened from the descending passage.

  36. Rounding a corner of the building, they were startled to hear a light tap on the window.

  37. He had not gone a mile when, upon rounding a cocoanut palm that overhung the water, he came in sight of two long, dark objects that lay close to shore, half concealed by foliage.

  38. Suddenly rounding a pile of moss-grown rocks, they saw the turkey.

  39. He would have given something to have an English ear near him as he watched them rounding under the mountain they were about to climb.

  40. Livia was a follower of the Red and Black and the rounding ball in the person of the giant captain, through whom she received her succession of sweetly teasing thrills and shocks, as one of the adventurous company they formed together.

  41. It was twilight when, on rounding a turn in the trail in a deep valley, they suddenly heard the barking of dogs.

  42. At the expiration of another period of travel, and not long before noon, on rounding a bend in the river they sighted another party coming toward them.

  43. In rounding a curve the car leans to the inside of the curve just as a bicycle rider does, and as a railway train is made to do by laying the outer rail of the curve higher than the inner rail.

  44. Two gyroscopes spinning in opposite directions are necessary to keep the car from falling when rounding a curve.

  45. Rounding Cape Atholl, we sailed into Wolstenholm Sound and turned our prow toward the Eskimo village on North Star Bay.

  46. Rounding Dundarave, the road lay straight before him till it thinned in the distance to a needle-point pricking the trees, and at the end of it was a cloud of dust.

  47. There might be an eye many times a-day on the Stron Point to see if a horseman was rounding it, and the cruisies were kept burning a little longer at night in case the news would come in the darkness like the Athol thieves.

  48. She was at the age that's a father's heartbreak, rounding out at the bosom and mellowing at the eyes; her skin was like milk, and the sigh was at her lips as often as the song.

  49. The first mishap occurred when the Armada was rounding the north of Scotland.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rounding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    backing; binding; bookbinding; bookcase; case; circling; circularity; circulation; circumlocution; cover; deviation; digression; excursion; gathering; gyre; indirection; jacket; lining; meandering; orbit; orbiting; sewing; signature; smashing; spiral; spiraling; stamping; trimming; turning; wrapper