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Example sentences for "steeling"

Lexicographically close words:
steek; steekit; steel; steeled; steelhead; steels; steely; steelyard; steelyards; steep
  1. She sat at her window all that afternoon steeling her mind to the ordeal before her.

  2. The third preparation was as puzzling to the student as the first had been, and he was steeling himself to meet the inevitable when an unexpected circumstance turned the scale in his favour.

  3. Behooves us bury out of sight our dead Steeling our hearts and weeping but a day.

  4. Behoves us bury out of sight our dead, Steeling our heart and weeping but a day.

  5. I detected one of them in steeling a peice of lead and sent him from camp.

  6. Corn, the hunters killed 2 pheasents only- all our horses purchased of the oote lash Shutes we Secured well for fear of their leaveing of us, and watched them all night for fear of their leaving us or the Indians prosuing & Steeling them.

  7. But it is not only in the missionary field, or in any other form of ecclesiastical activity, that the steeling effect of love on the human will is manifested.

  8. If ever I knew a man whose resolution was "steeled," it was this honoured friend of my early manhood, and the steeling power was simply love.

  9. A cry of pain, a low cry torn from the soul, made him stiffen in his seat, steeling himself against the expected.

  10. I begin to have my doubts," said Gunther slowly, with the air of one steeling himself against a great calamity.

  11. McKenna, steeling himself under an appearance of surprise.

  12. Brice, sickened at the sight, but steeling himself with the knowledge of the captive's crimes and of the vast amount at stake.

  13. Gordon Craig, do you mean--" I turned to her, steeling myself to look into her appealing eyes.

  14. Is that not rather strange," I asked, steeling myself to the task, "after asserting that he was your husband?

  15. But, steeling himself, he kept on steadily.

  16. From group to group he went, answering greetings cheerily and steeling himself to the whole disgusting business.

  17. I rose and went into the smoking room, steeling myself to patience, resolved not to leave it until luncheon.

  18. Steeling their nerves, and with every sense alert, the searchers advanced into the secret room.

  19. Steeling his nerves, he grabbed the waiting container and held on grimly.

  20. But Hampstead, while he spoke, was steeling himself against the probable desertion of his congregation.

  21. It is a steeling of the internal for action upon the external, as the Passive is a steeling of the internal against the influences of the external.

  22. And she, steeling herself: "I am here, Percival!


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