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Example sentences for "wielding"

Lexicographically close words:
wief; wield; wielded; wielder; wielders; wields; wierd; wif; wife; wifehood
  1. Before rising to conduct a composition then let him feel its tempo in the muscles of the arm and hand wielding the baton; for if not thus felt, the work will rarely be begun with a clearly defined rate of speed.

  2. Wielding as for war Two spears, comes Turnus in his two-horse car.

  3. This conclusion shows clearly that England, though still wielding an effective sea power able to control Spain, was not eager for a war merely in order to break down the rival navies.

  4. He was a man of an athletic frame, and might be seen striding along the battlements, armed with a Spanish buckler and cuirass, and in his hand wielding a formidable mace, garnished with points or knobs of copper.

  5. It is true that in part this attention might be interpreted as given politically to so many lieutenants, wielding a remote or inaccessible power for the benefit of Rome.

  6. Marry, he may be good enough wielding a sword, yet will prove the undoing of all who company with him in this adventure.

  7. Next she attacked her eyebrows, and skillfully wielding a thin silk cord left arches like pencil markings.

  8. The conception of gods as supernatural beings entirely distinct from and superior to man, and wielding powers to which he possesses nothing comparable in degree and hardly even in kind, has been slowly evolved in the course of history.

  9. This spirit is incarnate in the grand magician or pope, a person of great wealth and influence, ranking almost with the king, and wielding the spiritual, as the king wields the temporal, power.

  10. I saw you in front, but you should be wielding the baton.

  11. Jack, in the bare unfurnished room behind her, was noisily wielding a hatchet, opening the boxes and barrels of household goods which had followed them by freight.

  12. Phil looked from the pictures on the table to the original, standing in the kitchen wielding a rolling-pin under Mrs. Ware's direction.

  13. He is soon at work wielding the power of the gold.

  14. The man who will turn his back on love, and upon all the fruitful it, and will set himself single-heartedly to gather gold in an exultant dream of wielding its Plutonic powers, will find the treasure yielding quickly to his touch.

  15. Out of the past appeared clerks on high stools wielding quill pens and inscribing beautiful script for me to transpose into the story of one of America's most romantic and historic towns.

  16. Like Horace, he plays about the heart instead of wielding the whip of Lucilius.

  17. For now they must find outlet for their martial ardour in fistic combat with their school-fellows--or in the more risky line of trying how far they can trench upon the patience of a cane-wielding master.

  18. They ate their dry and scanty rations with one hand while wielding pick and shovel with the other.

  19. Accustomed, as you are, to wielding thunderbolts, you are best calculated for still governing it.

  20. The single patriarch had himself become a despot in wielding the tyranny of the civil despot as his chief instrument.

  21. Then his pleasant companions carried him down to the ocean flood, as he himself had bidden them, whilst the friend of the Scyldings was wielding words, he who as the dear Lord of the Land had ruled it a long time.

  22. The shield well protected life and body of the famous warrior for a lesser while than he had willed it if he was to be wielding victory in that contest on the first day; but Weird had not so fated it.

  23. Then the Prince of the Danes gave to Beowulf the wielding of them both, of horses and weapons; and bade him well enjoy them.

  24. We set to work upon the stockade at once, and soon were chopping away for dear life, even Marjorie wielding a light axe, and wielding it well.


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