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Example sentences for "slamming"

Lexicographically close words:
slaked; slakes; slaking; slam; slammed; slams; slander; slandered; slanderer; slanderers
  1. A sudden current of air whined around the corners of the line house, slamming the door violently and awakening the embers of the fire into a mass of glowing coals, which crackled and gave off flying sparks.

  2. He entered the building and slamming the door shut behind him, waited until the chorus was finished.

  3. He dropped the box and walked to the heavy plank door, slamming it shut.

  4. You see, I never forgot that three other people had been strangled in the bed close to me, and the fierce slamming of the door I had heard myself.

  5. But it was the door slamming that chiefly bothered the old butler.

  6. The door slamming was also another of his contributions.

  7. I dashed out, slamming the door and locking it.

  8. By this time, the door slamming had ceased, and there seemed, probably because of the contrast, to be an appalling silence in the house.

  9. This lasts some time, when there is the noise of a slamming door and then of footsteps approaching.

  10. With one last glare at him, she turns, opens the door and goes outside, slamming the door behind her.

  11. He left the house, slamming the door after him, which nearly broke the fanlight; and I heard him fall over the scraper, which made me feel glad I hadn't removed it.

  12. He went out of the house, slamming the hall-door.

  13. Over and over, Tom kept slamming the ship into sharp left turns, while the torpedo followed in an ever-narrowing circle.

  14. Captain Newton looked at the two boys piercingly for a second, then turned and entered the air lock, slamming the hatch closed behind him.

  15. A moment later a loud slamming and pounding indicated that the deserters were trying to close and barricade the door.

  16. I will," said Bob, slamming his cap upon his head and seating himself firmly in his saddle.

  17. Pécuchet left the room, slamming the door after him.

  18. He snatched up the candlestick and rushed out, slamming the door behind him.

  19. We were slamming up some husky looking steel structures like you see in the States, and believe me it makes me sick to think that we had to blow 'em all up again before the Boches got to 'em.

  20. At the same time, there came a muffled noise--not extremely loud nor yet very sharp--just a noise like the slamming of some large oaken door a good distance away.

  21. So saying, and before I could utter another word, he vanished, slamming the cabin door after him.

  22. There were a few drowsily muttered ejaculations in that direction, quickly succeeded by a volley of execrations, a scuffling of feet, the slamming of the hatch over the fore-scuttle, and Lindsay sang out that the schooner was ours.

  23. Then he went back for his silk hat, and left, slamming the door of his private office and carefully locking it.

  24. She ran with a laugh toward the door of the automobile and flounced inside, while the big man followed her, slamming the portal as the car moved on.

  25. Taking his silk hat from the bronze hook by the door, he closed the desk, after slamming the Bible shut with a sacrilegious impatience, quite out of keeping with his manner of a half hour earlier.

  26. So saying, he seized bewildered Tom, dragged him through the vestibule and hurled him outside, slamming the door after his nephew without even waiting to see what became of him.

  27. He was going to add a few more crushing remarks, but, altering his mind, went out, slamming the door so violently that all the typewriters engaged in sending out German propaganda were startled into an instant of silence.

  28. There are the girls slamming doors in the first jazz number," said Sally.

  29. Or perhaps worse-- likely worse," she was slamming book pages violently.

  30. It's over," eulogized Bobbie, slamming down her hat on Sally's camp chair and promptly sitting on it.

  31. My excellent mother, aroused from her siesta by the slamming of the door, dropped the Family Bible from her lap, and tottered in pursuit.

  32. When he saw men walk across the room for the express purpose of slamming it he began to cherish the idea that there was a conspiracy on foot to anger him and thus force him to bring about his own death.

  33. Her father re-read his paragraph for the thirteenth time and then, slamming the magazine on the floor, asked how many times he was expected to read ten lines before he knew what was in them, and went down to the bar.

  34. Tossing off the liquor and glancing at his howling friends, he shrugged his shoulders and strode out by the rear door, slamming it after him.

  35. Jane turned and ran, slamming the door behind her.

  36. It wasn't the echo of metal slamming against metal.

  37. Just when was this slamming of the door, at what time?

  38. He was not in the habit of slamming doors.

  39. Then with a whirl she was across the room, out of the door and up the stairs to Study 10, which she entered like a cyclone and rushed across into her bedroom, slamming and locking the door.

  40. Look at those," interjected Archie Carey, coming over from the letter window where he had gone to ask for the mail and slamming upon the counter beside the boxes of candy half a dozen plump letters.

  41. The three walked out, Mr. Ridgeway slamming the door sharply after him.

  42. Like turning off a top, O'Brien shut up, took what Mr. Ridgeway offered him and with a growl went out, slamming the door.

  43. Calcraft came in without slamming the doors as usual.

  44. He rushed after the pair to be mocked by the slamming of a gate, he knew not on what lonely street.

  45. Not a drop," and the double slamming of the street doors set Tekla humming Hunding's motif in "Die Walküre.

  46. The rain swished with it, and immediately there were all those sounds of windows being shut and doors slamming violently which accompany a storm.

  47. And, slamming the door in Meg's face, Aunt March drove off in high dudgeon.

  48. Me wants my Bhaer,' said the mite, slamming down her book, and running to meet him.

  49. Jo, slamming the stove-door open, and poking vigorously among the cinders.

  50. A slamming of doors and turning of keys, and a perfect Babel of voices shouting “Attention!

  51. This was a discharge of emotion akin, say, to slamming the door.

  52. He threw his body across hers, slamming her against the alabaster portico.

  53. The room was brought up sharp by the sound of the door slamming and a click of the lock.

  54. As the guard dropped down, his knee came up, slamming against the man's square jaw.


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