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Example sentences for "trooping"

Lexicographically close words:
troope; trooped; trooper; troopers; troopes; troops; troopship; troopships; trooth; trop
  1. Then came the daisies, On the first of May, Like a banner'd show's advance While the crowd runs by the way, With ten thousand flowers about them they came trooping through the fields.

  2. The guests come thronging in once more, Quick footsteps sound along the floor, The trooping children crowd the stair, And in and out and everywhere Flashes along the corridor The sunshine of their golden hair.

  3. On the top of a mountain I stand, With a crown of red gold in my hand, Wild Moors come trooping over the lea O how from their fury shall I flee, flee, flee?

  4. Misty visions trooping sadly Glimmer through her tears, Shapes of men contending madly,-- Misty visions trooping sadly From the vanished years.

  5. Presently they will all come trooping in to breakfast, in coloured blazers and fancy blouses, laughing and grabbing at the food with mimic rudeness and bursts of hilarity.

  6. She moved on with her sister to meet the other guests who were trooping into the hall, and Foster found himself taking Mrs. Weatherbee's hand.

  7. They went trooping up the staircase, but Hollis did not hurry to follow.

  8. But after half an hour or so, to her dismay she heard a door open, and the whole gang of children come trooping into the hall below, where they soon made such a noise that reading or thinking was out of the question.

  9. We seemed to see them trooping into our beautiful Cathedral.

  10. The last thing one looks for, then, in the moss-trooping ballads is a strain of tender and pathetic sentiment.

  11. It may be called, indeed, the Moss-trooping Age, and the chief members of the Moss-trooping Cycle date from the latter years of the sixteenth century.

  12. There seemed to be no order or discipline among them, each trooping along at his pleasure.

  13. I fancy that will send them trooping off again, at once.

  14. The monotonous voice of the priest mingles with the jingle and chatter of the French cafe opposite, and Europeans, sipping their bock or mazagran, watch the devout Moslems trooping into the courtyard to wash before entering the house of Allah.

  15. I can still see when the plowing came to be done the whole Brotherhood trooping around the hill of Zion.

  16. What a flood of anticipations came trooping through the mind at the mere thought of a sail "Down the Rhine.

  17. Possibly the proper thing to do was to uncover and drop a tear as the memories of the glorious scenes thereon enacted went trooping through the mind.

  18. Those old impressions and associations were trooping in.

  19. The holidays were ended, and the girls came trooping back from their various homes or places of pleasure.

  20. One after another, men came trooping to the door.

  21. Did not the young clergy whirl too, in circles of asceticism or mutual devotion, or perhaps forbidden and secret pleasure, one trooping after another in the earliest days?

  22. You see that I have not altogether forgotten my days of the sabre and the signal-post; my telegraph works well, and I have them all trooping over here with the regularity of a squadron.

  23. How was he to know that there was a custom to be observed in this trooping out of chapel, that the order was determined by precedence?

  24. They wound up the evening by trooping downstairs in the dark, for the lights were turned out long ago, and marching up to the front campus, singing as they went.

  25. Rose and Eddy were to be married that winter in New York, a gigantic opportunity for the newspapers, for already half the world seemed trooping to the festivities.

  26. We have had quite a stream of fashionable, furbelowed dames trooping up the steps; very few of them people that papa and I cared to keep in touch with; you know his dislike for the merely pleasure-seeking side of life.

  27. The whole party was trooping to the vestry.

  28. As they drove home from town, the farmers of the land met the blackened colliers trooping from the pit-mouth.

  29. One after another they came trooping in, till the cellar seemed full of them.

  30. There they were beginning to congratulate themselves that all was over, when in came the creatures trooping after them, and the second act of their terror and pain began.

  31. The women and children, who often remain at home, while the men are out for many days together fishing, generally find some excuse for trooping off to the shades of the forest in the hot hours of the afternoons.

  32. Every afternoon, as the sun was getting low, I used to notice these gaudy sunshine-loving swains trooping off to the forest, where I suppose they would find their sweethearts and wives.

  33. Scant of breath and stiff in the joints, she viewed morosely the laughing women trooping to the tennis courts.


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