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Example sentences for "transpiring"

Lexicographically close words:
transpierced; transpiration; transpire; transpired; transpires; transplant; transplantation; transplanted; transplanting; transplants
  1. From the observatories which they have established on every peak they can see through their powerful telescopes what is transpiring down on the plain as readily as though they were circling above it in an airplane.

  2. Had the party possessed the power of seeing through partitions of solid timber, they would have been able to behold within that room a scene transpiring which must, inevitably, have filled them with uneasiness and even alarm.

  3. As for Roy, he lay on the floor of the chassis unaware of what was transpiring without.

  4. Red Bill and his companions were noisily convivial, and paying no attention to what was transpiring at the lower end of the valley.

  5. What strange things have been transpiring since I left?

  6. His daughter was greatly rejoiced to see him and, after the joy of the first greeting was over, told of all that was transpiring and of the threats of Mr. Parris.

  7. It was observed by many writers in the Middle Ages that the Jews knew more of what was transpiring in Europe than the governments did.

  8. This too affords a vantage from which the average editor can view what is transpiring in this country.

  9. But she was insane, and was sunk in such depths of melancholy as to be almost unconscious of the scenes which were transpiring around her.

  10. While these storms were sweeping over Hungary, events of scarcely less importance were transpiring in Bohemia.

  11. While these events were passing in Bohemia, scenes of similar violence were transpiring in Hungary.

  12. Those men were in Washington, out of reach of and apparently out of sympathy with, the events transpiring at home.

  13. These facts demonstrate the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, and Benevolent Being; and every event, transpiring in the government of the world, proclaims an omnipresent Jehovah.

  14. The first thing necessary now, was to see how affairs stood in town, and we accordingly ascended a hill immediately back of it, where we could see, not only all that was going on in Hamburg, but much that was transpiring in Augusta.

  15. While this was transpiring on the right, the thunder of battle still reached us from the left.

  16. While this was transpiring on our right, the heavens appeared rent by a sudden crash, and the earth trembled beneath a steady, rolling sound.

  17. No thought occurred to her that a strange event was at that moment transpiring within those walls, or that something unusual was about to happen.

  18. Again Basil Hurlhurst turned to the portrait, paying little attention to what was transpiring around him.

  19. While all this had been transpiring on the right, Lee, to keep his opponent busy, and prevent his sending re-enforcements to the flank Jackson was thus threatening, had been continually tapping at the lines in his front.

  20. Nor can blame fall upon him in as full measure as upon Hooker; although he seems illy to have construed what was transpiring in his front, and what he reported may have seriously misled his chief.

  21. It is natural that men should speak in this, as we should call it, loose way, of what is transpiring under their very noses.

  22. While the Senate was thus actively entering upon the labors of the session, a somewhat different scene was transpiring in the other end of the Capitol.

  23. I wish to Heaven that I too could take to my bed and shut my eyes to all that is transpiring around us!

  24. While all this was transpiring at the market-place, an imperial state-carriage had been hurrying through the streets until it stopped before a gloomy house, of which the doors and window-shutters were all closed.

  25. It was an awful spectacle to the Spaniards, for they well knew the scenes which were transpiring on that lofty altar of idolatry.

  26. The scenes transpiring far away in the wilderness of the New World, important as they were, could claim but a small share of his attention.

  27. Who would not discover the impropriety and absurdity of treating of events now transpiring within the empire of the United States, as if falling out within the limits of the original thirteen as they existed in 1776?

  28. Giraffe, holding the boat steady in the current by means of his push-pole, while with his companions he watched to see what was transpiring over on the further shore.

  29. Before entering upon the narrative of my own observations, let us take a look at events transpiring in the city on Sunday.

  30. As there were no indications that McClellan would follow Lee into Virginia, I hastened to Kentucky to observe the events transpiring in that department.

  31. But while this was transpiring on the left there was a terrible sacrifice of life at the foot of Maryee's Hill.

  32. While they were secretly preparing for war, they anxiously inquired of the traders who came among them, what was transpiring in regard to the Mexican prisoners who had wantonly murdered their brave.

  33. Soon after the two volunteers came in, Fremont resumed his journey and continued it without anything transpiring to disturb the equanimity of the party until they reached a point on the Virgin River where the Spanish Trail leaves it.

  34. A few years subsequent to the transpiring of this murder and the skirmish which succeeded it, we traveled near to the spot under the same officer who had the command of the above expedition.

  35. To these taunts no reply was made; but to keep up the decoy, the few soldiers who were exposed to view, remained stationary, while word was passed to the rear of what was transpiring in the advance.

  36. Then there was the Magic Crystal Ball, in which the gazer could behold whatever he wished to, that was then transpiring on this earth, or any of the planets.

  37. I congratulate myself on having deceived "Jim," a spirit operating in the fourth dimension of space, and supposedly cognizant of all that was transpiring at the seance.

  38. In 18-- he was a newspaper man in New York, and was sent by the Graphic to investigate the alleged Spiritualistic phenomena transpiring in the Eddy family in Chittenden, Vermont.

  39. The citizens were becoming aware of what was transpiring in their midst, and were recovering from their surprise, and rallying to contest with the robbers.

  40. Meanwhile, an exciting scene was transpiring in the street in front of the bank building.

  41. The facts in the life of nature that are transpiring about us are like written words that the observer is to arrange into sentences.

  42. Meanwhile events were transpiring which seemed to add to Napoleon's naval strength and to the difficulties of his foes.

  43. Meanwhile, at the other extremity of Europe, events were transpiring that served as the best excuse for our harshness towards Denmark.


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