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Example sentences for "wading"

Lexicographically close words:
waded; wader; waders; wades; wadies; wadis; wadna; wads; wadys; waeful
  1. I did believe, at one time, her people might be walking and wading on the coast of Cornwall; but I now believe they are more likely to try the sands of the great Desert of Sahara.

  2. Here, farther to the north, I distinguished three objects in motion, wading in the water, near the point where the rocks are never bare.

  3. Then Nelly went on with great animation and volubility to tell of the trapping of the bear, and the snaring of rabbits, and the catching of fish, and of Roy's peculiar method of wading into the lake for ducks, and many other things.

  4. It's quite plain that we can have no more wading after ducks, but the fish won't object to feed in cold weather, so we'll try them again after having had a bit to eat.

  5. Went northwards, wading across two miles of flooded flats on to which the Clarias Capensis, a species of siluris, comes to forage out of the river.

  6. Our man from Moamba here refused to go further, and we were put on the wrong track by the headman wading through three marshes, each at least half a mile broad.

  7. They crossed the rolling current of the Wabash by a tedious process of ferrying, and at last found themselves once more wading in back-water up to their armpits, breaking ice an inch thick as they went.

  8. Don't go wading till Jud comes," said Aunt Polly, when good-natured Jud had gone back.

  9. It was hard work, wading against the current, but they helped each other and by good luck reached the bush, just as they saw Jud starting out from the other side.

  10. When you are wading in a clear, cold brook with little dancing leaves making checkered patterns on the water, and a green forest all around you, you can not stay cross long.

  11. Better: Wading along the shore, the doe nibbles the lily pads by the way, and moves slowly around the point.

  12. Monotonous: The doe is wading along the shore.

  13. Our men wondered at them not a little, for you must know that the Swedes as a people always wading in water and having their greatest income from the sea, are divers exquisitissimi.

  14. But though our people have fallen low, though they are wading in sin, still in sin itself there is a certain limit which they would not dare to pass.

  15. Sometimes they were storm-bound and had to dig shelters in snow-drifts, at other times they were wading through deep slush; again they were compelled to take to the shore and climb the bluffs and make long detours overland.

  16. Deep snow was met, and in wading through it Jensen’s leg gave way, and he had to be carried on the sledge.

  17. The road was bad, several of the men were lame, and occasionally they were wading up to the knees.

  18. Her superstructure was crowded with interested spectators, while several of the crew, wading knee-deep, made their way to the submerged side of the monitor and stood by to pick up the derelicts.

  19. There were ominous sounds: those of huge creatures wading over the mud-flats.

  20. A part of his force went by sea, while the rest pushed southward along the shore with such merciless energy that several men dropped dead with wading night and day through the loose sands.

  21. Your boots, for instance--most excellent boots for wading through the swamps in the New Forest, but quite impossible in town.

  22. He knew nothing of the original Latin, but had purchased the volume, and was wading through the archaic material with apparent relish.

  23. During the Emin Relief Expedition, it was noted that every wetting, whether from wading a stream or a downpour of rain, invariably resulted in fever to man and beast alike.

  24. Then he took a couple of big wooden block letters, turned them upside down, and engraved illustrations for it, showing the victim wading out into the river with a stick to test the depth of the water.

  25. You will find in my 'memorable relations' that I spoke of a certain class of Jews and others wading through mud, quagmires and swamps, and being injuriously affected by them, and this for the purposes of punishment.

  26. We wandered on and on, wading through tributary brooks, stopping every minute to examine some new fern or plant, peasant women and children meeting us at intervals on their way into the town.

  27. I found the bridges washed away, and the roads over-flowed; but I soon got used to wading up to my waist in water.

  28. While wading his horse alongside the waggon, he had sneeringly said as much to Katharina, to get for his pains a look of reproachful scorn.

  29. Wading across the cabin I could see into his state-room.

  30. A sudden chilling of the teat in cold weather after the calf has just let it go, or after the operation of milking with wet hands or from an animal wading through deep water or tall wet grass.

  31. He said: "I reached home after wading in water to my neck and made immediate preparations to take my wife and three children where I felt their safety would be assured.

  32. When the water was still high Conductor Barr made an attempt to get back to his car from the hill, but after wading up to his arm-pits in the water he was forced to return to safe ground.

  33. About 3 o'clock in the morning the wind had changed and blew the water back to the gulf, and as we stood at the windows watching it fall we saw two men and two girls wading the street and heard Sidney calling for her mother.

  34. At one point, in a little cove behind the willows, I surprised some schoolgirls, with skirts amazingly abbreviated, wading and playing in the water.

  35. Beyond the borders of this lake, but only half visible in the gloom, stretched swamps and morasses, where he heard sounds as of huge beasts wading and trampling.

  36. The same instant he heard a wading sound, as of many people coming ashore, and then up over the headland he saw a boat's crew coming along.

  37. Some of these belong to Swimming or Wading Birds, differing in no point of special interest from modern birds of similar habits.

  38. The order of the long-legged Wading Birds.

  39. That way it is jolly, better than wading in a brook.

  40. Do you like playing and wading in the water and picking wild-flowers?


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bathe; bathing; crawl; diving; fin; flapper; flipper; floating; swim; swimming; wading