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Example sentences for "vieing"

Lexicographically close words:
vieil; vieillard; vieillards; vieille; vieilles; vieja; viejos; viel; viele; vielen
  1. Winnie, as she came into the breakfast room, her cheeks vieing with the red of the rose; "how happy I am!

  2. His most extensive work was produced for the hall of council, where he had a companion and rival in Schedone, assisting him in those pictures which they undertook in conjunction, and vieing with him in his separate works.

  3. The two principal approaches from the city are lined on each side, for a mile, with fine pagodas, some almost vieing for size with Shoodagon itself.

  4. They became in turn the comforters of the missionaries, vieing with each other in trying to convince them that the cause was not yet desperate.

  5. And now the fruits of combined science appeared in the elegant arrangement of the breakfast-table, the highly polished plate vieing with the snowy whiteness of the cloth, and the pyramidical napkins encircling around.

  6. They were gorgeously attired, vieing with the rainbow in the colour of their clothes.

  7. With most impudent effrontery they gathered around us, each vieing with the others in casting ridicule upon us; nor were witty sallies alone the extent of their teasing; many of the coarsest personalities were indulged in.

  8. And, as if vieing with each other, they were singing the most beautiful songs, at which little fish, glittering like diamonds, danced up and down in the rosy ripples.

  9. Doubtless, dear reader, you have at some time or other found yourself in some circle composed of fair ladies and talented men, which might be likened to a fair garland of many-tinted flowers, vieing in colour and perfume.

  10. The long form of breastplate necessitates only three taces, which are escalloped, and two large tuilles, vieing in size with those of Henry Parice, are appended.

  11. People are vieing with one another to do you honor.

  12. Although no special announcement had been made, the evening was evidently looked upon as a festival occasion, and every one was attired a la grande toilette, the ladies vieing with one another in the richness and brilliancy of their dress.

  13. Any one, however, who may visit their country under the protection of one of their chiefs, they are ready to protect to the utmost with their lives, each noble vieing with the other in paying their guest attention.

  14. The gathering was democratic in the best sense of that word, political lines were erased, Republicans and Democrats vieing with each other in giving the distinguished man a fitting reception.

  15. The soldiers of each vieing in reciprocity, as with "a union of hearts and a union of hands" with fragrant flowers they bedeck historic sod.


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