We are all in imminent danger of falling under human influence--of shaping our way according to the thoughts of our fellow-man, adopting his cue, or mounting his hobby.
He was moulding his conduct and shaping his way according to the standard which God had set before him.
Herr Duehring takes some universally known expressions, pastes the Duehring label on them and calls them "fundamentally original results and views, system shaping thoughts, profound science.
This is a remarkable, clever, and system-shaping discovery of our system-shaping philosopher.
It is indeed system-shaping until we find six lines further down that Herr Duehring has transformed the soleness of being by means of our idea of unity into its one-ness.
More subtle in a way and yet not beyond the comprehension of the school-boy is the part which character plays in shaping events and moulding the story.
If the individuals are trained to think for themselves, each will judge the views which are presented in class, and will make them his own by shaping and modifying them.
The man or the woman into whom the school-boy or girl is to grow will in shaping life be guided chiefly by the feelings.
I had got back to the sort of thing I could do, and to the work that had been shaping itself for so long in my imagination.
We may be shaping immortal things, but we must sleep and answer the dinner gong, and have our salt of flattery and self-approval.
At that time, though the shadow of my scandal was already upon me, I still seemed to be shaping for great successes, and he was glad to be in conversation with me and anxious to intimate political sympathy and support.
The entire social and economic history of the world is now shaping itself around the struggle for dominance between them.
The rain still fell--descending in spoonfuls rather than drops; the wind kept shaping itself into long hopeless howls, rising to shrill yells that went drifting away over the land; and then the howling rose again.
During the previous fifteen years the causes had beenshaping through the development of the use of the trails, the opening of the mining territories, and the agitation for a continental railway.
The factors of most consequence in shaping the course of the great plains during the Civil War were those of mixed population, of ever present Indian danger, and of isolation.
The controlling influence of the frontier in shaping American problems has been possible because of the construction of civilized governments in a new area, unhampered by institutions of the past or conservative prejudices of the present.
I'd never try to make a design for a fire-dog, and I doubt you'd make a poor job at shaping an earthen bowl.
Master," he said to the old huchier, who was planing and chipping and shaping a piece of Spanish chestnut, "here is a boy who has fallen in love with your trade.
Black Strand had left the hands of the dilettante school and was in the grip of those vigorous moulding forces that are shaping our civilization to-day.
Through the sleeping camp they made their way and, shaping their course north by east, they rode out into the great silent desert, being joined by a small escort, on reaching the outskirts of the camp.
His machine may be said to consist of two parts, connected in the same frame; the one for shaping the shank of the nail, the other for cutting it off and heading it.
By sliding the block along this bench, it is applied to the saw, which cuts off its angles, as is evident from the figure, and prepares it for the shaping engine.
The ends of these shapingpunches fit into and over each other, as will be seen by the detached figures of the punches designed for forming the shank first described.
This last-mentioned mode of producing button shanks and backs he prefers when such metals are employed as require annealing between the operations of shaping the backs and forming the shank.
And now he was shaping his course for Hurst Dormer.
God grant you may be turned out a man fitted by Sacrifice for Service when the shaping is done.
There is enough merit in him worth the shaping Sunrise will give him, however, and I must do a man's part, anyhow.
And now, after he has been shaping Elinor Wream's life until she is ready for college, he sends her out here to me, frankly declaring that she is too much for him.
Art is knowledge in its applications; and to apply our experience and our knowledge to the shaping of a higher social justice is also an art.
After more than an hour spent in shaping conjectures, and building hypotheses, they had arrived no nearer to a rational belief, than when commencing their speculations on the subject.
Holtspur, conjecturally, shaping her purpose to his wishes.
Then she became decidedly heavy and sluggish in her movements, which showed us that it would be hopeless to dream of shaping a course other than to leeward, or at best with the wind abeam.
It was nearly six weeks after the appearance of the junk when at length I felt strong enough to resume my boat-building operations, and even then I was only able at first to do such comparatively light work as shaping and planing planks.
Little, however, could all that avail in shaping his public conduct.
It resides in the synthesis of details to the end of shaping a complete whole.
Twice, thrice, his lips moved without shaping a word.
Mysie was feeling sick, and already the thought was shaping in her mind that she would never be able to continue.
He had taken hold of them as crude material, and was slowly shaping them into something like unity.
Use manila paper instead, by all means, and take great pains in shaping your wooden foundation.
Now take the animal down, stand it upon the floor, cut slits in the sides, as directed in the previous section, and through them finish the filling and shaping of the body.
Now wind stout linen thread around it, shaping it all the time by pressing it between your left thumb and forefinger, until at last you have a firm body, smoothly wound, of the same general shape and size as the natural one.
Merriam's method ofshaping a skin is certainly, so far as looks are concerned, the best yet devised.
I hold that it is best to set the eyes at once, before the bird dries, in order to secure the greatest degree of elasticity in shaping the eyelids, and thereby have a more perfect mastery of the situation.
Then begin at the feet and sew it up with short, strong stitches in the manner already described, shaping and filling out wherever necessary, as you go.
But the Blast pauses, and their shaping spirit Is fled: the mighty Columns were but sand, And lazy Snakes trail o'er the level ruins!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
