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Example sentences for "satisfying"

Lexicographically close words:
satisfied; satisfies; satisfieth; satisfy; satisfyed; satisfyingly; sativa; satrap; satrapies; satraps
  1. A nice, quiet, contemplative evening beside the still waters may suit the requirements of some temperaments, but it was not just what Ella regarded as most satisfying to her mood of the hour.

  2. And, satisfying himself with good intentions, he put off the unwelcome day until the occasion was past, and till, finally, the friend whose honour had been entrusted to his keeping was beyond his power to help or to harm.

  3. The host's stentorian "Amen" was the signal for attack, and for a time the business of satisfying the demands of healthy hunger was paramount to all things else.

  4. I urge that this measure of satisfying the Loyals is one that presses and cannot well wait months to be settled.

  5. This abstinence, so remarkable in an Indian, when he possessed the means of satisfying hunger, at length attracted the notice of Heyward.

  6. Magua, after satisfying himself of the safety of the captive; "the sun must shine on his shame; the squaws must see his flesh tremble, or our revenge will be like the play of boys.

  7. It is feared, that in not satisfying certain individuals in this respect, they may give way to all their resentment.

  8. It was all-satisfying for him to realize that she had been compelled to give him a separate and distinct place in her mind.

  9. He determined, therefore, to make himself as agreeable as possible, satisfying her curiosity by giving her all the gossip of the town, in order to pacify the jealous mood, which he thought he had excited.

  10. His present object was sufficiently important to keep him on the alert, and prevent him losing the opportunity of satisfying his curiosity.

  11. The large room on the second floor, which was not far from his own, was locked every night, and consequently debarred him from satisfying his curiosity from thence.

  12. What, above all, meant that look of diabolical hate which shot out from his cavernous eyes towards Henry Rogers when he thought himself unobserved, just after satisfying a fresh claim on his purse?

  13. If, on the other hand, he had succeeded in satisfying himself, it was worse still, for then one had to endure the recital of the entire performance, down to the least trifling detail of composition or execution.

  14. His efforts were amply rewarded, for Aunt Rosalie, though not perhaps satisfying all his demands, generously wrote him down for large sums, of which she handed him the list, with great mystery.

  15. How much more satisfying than idle words was the joy of injuring each other--outside of business, of course.

  16. Well, then, the fakir affirmed that Fetish and man are one and the same thing, for every man makes his Fetish according to the strength of his interest in himself, and the will power he expends in satisfying it.

  17. But if the houses of even the well-to-do are small and inconspicuous, the interiors are of satisfying quality in materials and workmanship, and the family godowns bring forth surprises.

  18. Also it had the fullest and most satisfying assortment of whatnot curios and alum baskets and whale ivory and shell frames and wax fruit and pampas grass.

  19. But, as he pondered over it during the long drive home he realized that, after all, it was not by any means a completely satisfying answer.

  20. Madame von Blucher," whispered Scharnhorst, after satisfying himself by a quick side glance that Blucher was too far from them to overhear his words, "permit me to ask a question.

  21. We ate some of it, more for the purpose of satisfying her people, than our appetite.

  22. So Descartes, who doubted mathematics only because it was not satisfying doctrinally, regained in this case, as in that of his God or his material world, not exactly what he had lost.

  23. It is a splendid power, and ought to be more satisfying to the possessor than a gift of any other kind.

  24. After satisfying himself upon this head, the Jew stepped gently to the door: which he fastened.

  25. She is of proud and independent nature in all other matters, and to imagine herself a man who consents to be a slave gives her a more satisfying sense of humiliation.

  26. Quivers of self-satisfying joy ran up my spine and relieved the frosty mental bleach of the long-delayed Polar anticipation.

  27. It was the first satisfying sleep of the journey for me.

  28. There were elusive signs of land frequent enough to maintain an exploring enthusiasm, which helped me also in satisfying my companions.

  29. Here we saw the satisfying prospect of an easy breakfast if only the waves would cease to fold in white crests.

  30. After satisfying our desire for the hunt, we prepared to start for Annoatok, twenty-five miles to the northward.

  31. In a short time their satisfying howls told of the bear's captivity.

  32. The best that we can do is to say that the word is one of the smallest, completely satisfying bits of isolated "meaning" into which the sentence resolves itself.

  33. Neither exists as an independently intelligible and satisfying element of speech.

  34. The galloping horsemen were not a hundred paces from the stringer when the dynamite let go with a soul-satisfying roar.

  35. After satisfying himself that the weapon was fully loaded he stuffed it down inside the waistband of his trousers.


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