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Example sentences for "visiting"

Lexicographically close words:
visited; visiter; visiters; visitest; visiteth; visitings; visitor; visitors; visits; visitt
  1. On visiting this lieutenant a pleasant evening was passed without any mention made of the business in hand.

  2. A newspaper from home was like a visiting angel.

  3. Colonel Burrell, with his officers and their friends, spent time and money, visiting various cities and towns endeavoring to have them join the Forty-Second.

  4. Visiting the hospital first, Private Cook was found laid out upon the grass beside a dozen others, having died from his wound.

  5. Through the colonel’s orderly, George Cole, I was usually the recipient of some dainties from his table, after an entertainment had been given by that officer to visiting friends.

  6. I suppose as you went visiting her, she would have had no objection?

  7. The shopkeepers there would stand in their doorways most of their time, or go visiting one another.

  8. We were visiting lakes and mountains, churches and picture galleries, cities and salt-mines," said the Duke.

  9. Had I a mother living would not Frank Tregear have come to visit her, and in visiting her, would he not have seen me,--and should we not have walked out together?

  10. He burned the great churches of Nazareth and Mount Tabor; and sought to awaken the zeal and enthusiasm of his soldiers in behalf of Islam by performing the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and visiting with great devotion the Mosque of Omar.

  11. The first day in Florence was spent in visiting the Pitti Palace, the basilica of San Miniato, which was of architectural value to the students, and then the Museo Nazionale.

  12. Fortunately, this day happened to be one of the visiting days at the old ruins, and they had no trouble in securing an entrance.

  13. My wife and daughter are visiting at Sir James Osgood's, I believe, but my visit there all depends on whether the Ashbys and my girls are included in the invitation.

  14. All the next day was spent in visiting the points of interest in Venice: the Palace of the Doges, the Museum and the famous old churches and palaces being on the list.

  15. Mrs. Alexander was the only member in the party who had no interest in visiting the Count, now.

  16. Yes; Mr. Fabian promised Anne and my mother to take good care of Polly and me, until he turns us over to his wife and Nancy, who are visiting Sir James Osgood, of London.

  17. She just told me that the teacher's wife and daughter are visiting a real English peer!

  18. Well, now she can go along with us, can't she Daddy, and get all the information she wants, from visiting the places we go to.

  19. The second day was given to visiting at the Piazzale Michelangelo, and to see the Cathedral Santo Maria del Fiore, with its beautiful facade.

  20. Such tactics often hopelessly upset the plan of battle of the visiting club unless this exactly coincided with the habits of the home team.

  21. He had made an exhaustive study of all the possible angles at which the ball might bound and had certain paths that he followed, but which were not marked out by sign posts for visiting right-fielders.

  22. Another method which has upset the "inside" game of many visiting teams is "doping" the grounds.

  23. He was sure death on hits to his territory, while usually wallops got past visiting right-fielders.

  24. You have been in the Eternal City now nearly twenty-four hours without visiting St. Peter's.

  25. Oh, I dare say, but it isn't the same thing as visiting Gibraltar decently.

  26. The more Irma thought about it the more certain she became that Marion hesitated about letting Aunt Caroline and Uncle Jim know that he was in the habit of visiting the steerage.

  27. Ah, well, I was there years ago, visiting cousins who lived there.

  28. Marion is too uncertain, and the hours for visiting the monastery are limited!

  29. But after driving a short time, Aunt Caroline herself suggested visiting the Oratory of San Bernardino, and one or two other churches where certain masterpieces of Sodoma and other great artists were to be seen.

  30. After leaving the car they rambled around the pleasant, shady roads of Fiesole for an hour or more, visiting the piazza and the old church.

  31. We can barely catch the train, after visiting the Temple of Ceres.

  32. Illustration: Frederick the Great visiting his People.

  33. Another famous scholar who was very fond of visiting Louvain was Erasmus.

  34. This picture shows Sir George Reid, High Commissioner of Australia, visiting the camp of the Australian contingent in Egypt.

  35. Finding his commands disregarded, Butler mustered his forces and withdrew, without visiting the lower part of the valley.

  36. I am still visiting Ruth, as her neck is not yet right; the only thing to do seems to be to go on poulticing it.

  37. For the next few weeks my husband spent his time visiting the different shipping agencies and the docks, but to no purpose, as no ship would call at Tristan.

  38. Their plan after visiting Gough Island is to go on to the Cape and there sell the ketch.

  39. February had now set in, and we thought that the best thing to do was to take a small unfurnished house and wait in hope that a man-of-war would be visiting the island at the end of the year.

  40. Yours must be such a happy life, Miss Elizabeth," said Katie one night when she was visiting her friend, and they were sitting together after Mrs Holt had gone to bed.

  41. If she had been visiting her Aunt Maltha, he would have gone there to see her, he said, as though it were quite his right to do so, and a matter of course.

  42. We spent our time here in strolling around the city, visiting the tabernacle, bathing and fishing in the river Jordan, which empties into the lake, and in making sundry purchases for the continuation of our journey to the Pacific.

  43. It only remained for them to wait for the return of Mr. McCoy and his party, who had promised, after visiting Fort Walla Walla, to rendezvous at Fort Hall.

  44. Visiting slums, seeing death from want and misery on all sides, is certainly not the most pleasant way of spending the festive season.

  45. She was kept on her back in a room, covered up and undisturbed, for thirty-six hours, the members of the family occasionally visiting her to sprinkle holy water on her face.

  46. Domestic infelicity soon compelled them to keep the wives at different houses, and they alternated weeks in visiting each wife.

  47. Then, in the presence of the three visiting physicians, a sixth amniotic sac was delivered with its fetus.

  48. May he derive as much satisfaction from the present description of the mine, as we did from visiting the mine itself!

  49. While visiting these unfortunate men she caught the fever which raged among them.

  50. For a long time after his marriage Columbus earned his living partly by drawing maps, which he sold to commanders of vessels visiting Lisbon, and partly by making voyages to Africa, Iceland, and other countries.

  51. The boys spent some time further, examining the aeroplane, and visiting the machine shop, whence came the throbbing of a gasolene engine--the same sound they had heard when on their second visit to the camp.

  52. It struck him as a highly suspicious circumstance that while Lawless was on visiting terms with the woman he should have given him to understand that the relationship between them was the reverse of friendly.

  53. He left the magnificent basket of flowers he had brought with him, and scribbled hastily on a visiting card that he would call again on the morrow, and went away dissatisfied.

  54. There is no exception to this rule except in the case of German Officers, and also in the case of doctors visiting their patients.

  55. Systematically, the Germans were visiting every shop and warehouse in the shopping districts, and seizing everything eatable they could discover.

  56. On visiting the nets, we found six white fish, and two pike.

  57. Walpurga found an opportunity to tell her husband to use all the means in his power to dissuade the count from visiting their mountain meadow.

  58. She was afraid lest she might humble herself too much, and thus vex Hansei, who behaved as if Grubersepp had been visiting the family for years.

  59. Although it cost me an effort, I was obliged to insist upon his only visiting me during certain hours.

  60. Madame Gunther replied that, as Bronnen and their nephew were visiting them, and as there was much to look after in the house, Cornelia had gladly assumed these duties.

  61. Gunther's son, who owned the chemical works at the capital, had been visiting his parents for several days.

  62. A wealthy farmer visiting the cottage by the lake, and bringing his beer there of an evening--such a thing had never been heard of as long as the village existed.

  63. I often feel like visiting the picture-gallery and the collection of antiques.

  64. While at the baths, he had made the acquaintance of Baroness Steigeneck and her daughter and was now visiting them.

  65. By a fine star-light evening of the following day, which we had spent amongst the hills and in visiting the fortifications of the castle, we took our departure for Poitiers--the next great object of our interest.

  66. The same thing has been several times attempted in Bordeaux, but has always been abandoned, not meeting with encouragement, although it would seem to be a great convenience to persons visiting the South of France.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "visiting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    call; visit; visitation


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    visiting card; visiting cards