Tucking his legs under him and dropping his head he sat down on the cold ground by the wheel of the cart and remained motionless a long while sunk in thought.
Marya Dmitrievna, tucking up her sleeves and puffing heavily.
Sonya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran after Natasha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face and light, joyous steps.
When I went in, he was tucking away something in his pocket.
I lost my wallet this morning, and Tim Bunker says he saw you tucking something into your pocket," replied Farmer Whipple, proceeding to detail all the circumstances.
Then, lifting her into the sleigh, and tucking the bear skin about her, he drove briskly over the road toward home, not allowing the horse to slacken pace until he reached his own door.
Nothing could make Randy's departure less hard for little Prue, and she had evidently found a bit of comfort in tucking the little bag into a corner of the lunch basket, thus contributing her mite toward Randy's pleasure.
Taddy looked eagerly round, but saw nothing new or interesting, except some curious-looking papers which Mrs. Ducklow was hastily tucking into an envelope.
He assisted the girls into the sleigh, tucking the robes well about them.
The last I saw of her in the dusk she was tucking her flowers into the fresh sod as one tucks a coverlet about a child.
Baring the leg" implies a grievous calamity, probably borrowed from the notion of tucking up the skirts and stripping for flight.
Then Abdullah set down the tray in a comer and tucking up his sleeves, loosed the first dog, which began to struggle in his hands and put its muzzle to the floor, as it would kiss the ground before him, whining the while in a weak voice.
Imagine a moonlight night--low water at midnight--when the tucking begins.
Ah, the mockery of that "tucking up" in the vast spaces of a bed which reckoned its chronology by centuries!
She might as well have talked of "tucking up" a mouse under the dome of St. Paul's.
Tucking her little thin sharp hand under his arm, she said quietly: "My dear, don't brood over it.
Having given and received another hug, he mounted the window-seat, and tucking his legs up under him watched her unpack.
Mrs. Nitschkan had seized a pair of scissors and cut the pocket from her skirt, tucking the roll of bills which it contained into her man's boot.
Another night she carried home a small bottle, tucking it beneath her coat as she emerged to the street.
She caught her by a rear leg as she leaped back, wild to rollick, tucking her under one arm, administering three diminutive punishments on the shaggy ears.
Little Peggy had an adorable way of turning her back on her mother and tucking her face away under Majendie's chin.
He had already surrendered her prayer-book, tucking it gently under her arm.
For, just as I was twisting the bine of my very last faggot, before tucking the cleft tongue under, there came three men outside the hedge, where the western light was yellow; and by it I could see that all three of them carried firearms.
This one sprang up and insisted on giving Lilian the chair, tucking the pillow behind her with an unceremonious friendliness very grateful to Lilian.
Sara had settled Ellen comfortably on the broad window-seat, and was solicitously tucking pillows behind her back, apologizing the while for Augusta's absence.
Then he fastened the knife by tucking the haft under the rope.
She drew a sudden, deep breath and sat erect, tucking back some stray wisps of hair from her forehead.
Tucking Denis into his coat a little later, she said, "I pity her.
They're lovely," she said, tucking them into her soft folded belt.
It covered the roof with a smooth white counterpane, tucking it in neatly and carefully round the edges; it put a tall conical cap on top of the pump, and laid an ermine fold over his long and impressive nose.
The birds flew to their perches, and each, tucking her head and one leg away in some mysterious manner, became suddenly a very queer looking creature indeed.
But already Renee was neatly tucking into a corner of the wardrobe her warm, comfy slippers and was hanging her nightgown upon a hook, so, although Patricia had opened her lips to utter a protest, she closed them, suddenly ashamed.
Pat, folding her precious note and tuckingit away in her pocket.
It was a rather vivid modern Turkish one given her by Logotheti, and she wrapped it quickly over her disordered hair, like a sort of turban, tucking one end in, and left the room almost without glancing at the glass again.
He had taken a very small and fine handkerchief from his sporran and was carefully tuckingit into his collar with some idea of protecting his throat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tucking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
