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Example sentences for "strolling"

Lexicographically close words:
stroking; stroll; strolled; stroller; strollers; strolls; stroma; strond; strong; stronge
  1. I sat down and told him freely all that had happened from my strolling into Madame Riano's garden until that moment.

  2. Count Saxe, however, was strolling about enjoying the fragrance of the morning.

  3. You occasionally saw one of them strolling home with her.

  4. She had seen the workmen in their absurdly baggy corduroy trousers and grimy shirts strolling along arm in arm with the women of their class--those untidy women with the tidy hair.

  5. While strolling around, we kept the run of the moon all the time, and we still kept an eye on her after we got back to the hotel portico.

  6. A drowsy reposeful quiet reigned in the back streets which made strolling through them very pleasant, barring the almost unbearable heat of the sun.

  7. Desnoyers was enjoying an almost forgotten sensation, that of strolling through vast spaces, crushing as he walked the grains of sand under his feet.

  8. That afternoon, when strolling through the boulevards, he had stumbled across a friend considerably older than himself, an acquaintance in the fencing club which he used to frequent.

  9. Then he remembered that just a year before he and his companion had seen in the Ludovisi gardens a wonderfully beautiful girl, strolling in the train of this conspicuous couple.

  10. They agreed it was the earthly paradise, and they passed the mornings strolling through the perfumed alleys of classic villas, and the evenings floating in the moonlight in a circle of outlined mountains, to the music of silver-trickling oars.

  11. It 's the ideal--strolling up and down on the very spot commemorated, hearing sympathetic anecdotes from deeply indigenous lips.

  12. Christina reappeared as he spoke these words, strolling beside her companion with the same indifferent tread with which she had departed.

  13. To go and come back was only a matter of an hour, but Rowland, with the prospect of his homeward trudge before him, confessed to a preference for lounging on his bench, or at most strolling a trifle farther and taking a look at the monastery.

  14. One morning, about a month after his return from Frascati, as he was strolling across the vast arena, he observed a young woman seated on one of the fragments of stone which are ranged along the line of the ancient parapet.

  15. He occupied a fifth floor on the Ripetta, but he was only at home to sleep, for when he was not at work he was either lounging in Rowland's more luxurious rooms or strolling through streets and churches and gardens.

  16. We were strolling along the half illuminated Grosvenor street under the elms.

  17. Young Joe Warren, who had seen the main circus in the afternoon and who was strolling in and about the side-shows, suddenly found himself accosted by Tim Reardon, who gasped out a greeting as though the words choked him.

  18. Two hours later, Benny Ellison, strolling homeward, with gun over shoulder, and two pickerel dangling from a crotched stick, espied something gleaming in the grass by the roadside.

  19. Carpet-bag in hand, he happened to be strolling back that way.

  20. As for his adroitly playing the madman, invidious critics might object the same to some one or two strolling magi of these days.

  21. In 1646 he set out on a strolling tour through the provinces, and was absent from the capital for nearly thirteen years.

  22. A poet of great gifts, the latest of the vagabond school of Villon, was Albert Glatigny, who lived as a strolling actor, and died young.

  23. But during the first quarter of the century the theatre was exceedingly popular, and the institution of strolling troops of actors spread its popularity all over France.

  24. It is the unfinished history of a troop of strolling actors, displaying extraordinary truth of observation and power of realistic description in the style which, as has been said, Le Sage and Fielding afterwards made popular throughout Europe.

  25. After a while I returned to the strolling branch of the profession, and started anew as the proprietor of a traveling pantomime and vaudeville company.

  26. By strolling along the slopes of the ridge a little way inland there is another scene where hills roll on after hills till the last and largest hides those that succeed behind it.

  27. Kestrels are almost common; I have constantly seen them while strolling along the road, generally two together, and once three.

  28. These excursions, for they were indeed such to the boy, sowed deep in his heart the seed of a determination to become a nomad, and it was not long until he started out as a strolling sign-painter, determined upon the realization of his ideals.

  29. After much effort, I finally obtained employment from the man with whom I had passed so many afternoons strolling up and down the little streams in the neighborhood, trying to fish.

  30. He learned in his travels and journeys, in his hard experience as a strolling sign-painter and patent-medicine peddler, the freemasonry of poverty.

  31. I waited for a while, strolling about the deserted garden, where a few poppies turned their crimson disks towards the setting sun, and a peony lay dead and smelling rank, with the ants crawling all over it.

  32. Mrs. Rummel, when Dina is out of the room, explains to the ladies that the girl is the daughter of a strolling player who years before had come to perform for a season in the town.

  33. LYNGE: There was a company of strolling players, who, I was told, played many pranks.

  34. In 1645 he suddenly appeared upon the stage as a member of a company of strolling players, and later, through the recommendation of influential friends, his company gained permission to act before the King.

  35. There Little was strolling one summer morning, meditating on a new top with concealed springs.

  36. Perhaps it was rather that, ever since I had elected to be saintless, I had got into the habit of strolling off into the background, and amusing myself with what I found there.

  37. In the calm evening air the voices of Mrs. Fyne and the girls strolling aimlessly on the road could be heard.

  38. In a very short time the odious fellow appeared again, strolling, absolutely strolling back, his hat now tilted a little on one side, with an air of leisure and satisfaction.

  39. Almost at once Fyne caught me up and slowed down to my strolling gait which must have been infinitely irksome to his high pedestrian faculties.

  40. A strolling pastor delivered a lecture on cremation.

  41. The two friends took frequent walks out to the suburbs, strolling through the forests of Feucht and Fischbach, or climbing the high hills about the city.

  42. They had again reached the front door; they had been strolling back and forth for two hours.

  43. It was impossible to resist a feeling of depression upon strolling around the environs of the town and regarding the barren aspect of the distant country.

  44. A brother hidden in the crypt, opened the door where the inferior members were strolling till the initiation was over.

  45. During this work, which was so quietly done that women were strolling about the groups with their children, Lafayette arrived with his special guard, who were paid troops.

  46. Strolling in the shrubbery near the house, where for some time they had been anxiously awaiting his return, he met his eldest sister and Miss Torrington.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strolling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambling; ambulatory; cautious; circumspect; crawling; creeping; deliberate; discursive; drifting; easy; errant; faltering; flagging; flitting; floating; footing; footwork; fugitive; gentle; going; gradual; halting; hiking; idle; indolent; itinerant; journeying; languid; languorous; lazy; leisurely; limping; locomotive; lumbering; marching; meandering; migratory; moderate; moving; nomad; passing; pedestrian; peripatetic; poking; poky; progressing; rambling; relaxed; reluctant; roaming; roving; shifting; shuffling; slack; slothful; slow; sluggish; staggering; straggling; straying; strolling; tentative; toddling; tottering; touring; tramping; transient; transitory; traveling; trudging; unhurried; vagabond; vagrant; walking; wandering