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Example sentences for "arranging"

Lexicographically close words:
arranged; arrangement; arrangements; arranger; arranges; arrant; array; arrayed; arraying; arrays
  1. On his return, Alvarado found the army-master, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, at Tiguex, arranging winter quarters sufficient to accommodate the whole force in this region.

  2. At least a fortnight would have been necessary for completing the organization of the force, and for collecting and arranging all the supplies.

  3. Sarah stood by the table, arranging a tempting breakfast.

  4. Mr. Sardonyx is with her now," said Mollie, "arranging matters.

  5. He remained a few days at the banking-house, and then absented himself on the plea of finally arranging his incompleted affairs in Oxford and elsewhere.

  6. He muttered continually to himself, and seemed to be arranging what he should say to the judge; for I heard him talking of things which I would just as soon not have listened to, if I could have helped it.

  7. Observe also in the village of Douglas and West Park on the West Side, just over the city line, the angular, humorous Peter Laughlin and Burton Stimson arranging a similar deal or deals.

  8. I have everywhere found, primarily, thieves and scalliwags arranging the nominations to offices, and sometimes filling the offices themselves.

  9. This torture of rhyme-finding seems to have occasioned a general affliction among modern poets; and an unhappy substitute was early found in arranging collections of rhymes, and which subsequently led to a monstrous device.

  10. The 7th of September we were occupied in arranging the presents, and providing little tables of sweet-smelling wood on which to carry them, according to the custom of the country.

  11. For some days after he left Brackenhill, Percival was busy arranging his affairs.

  12. This is the most usual way of arranging a marriage, but the manner formerly varied, and still varies, in places.

  13. You know perfectly well that you did not spend all that time arranging a pillow.

  14. She complained a good deal of her back, Sister, and I was arranging her pillows for her.

  15. We felt lonely for the balance of the day, although we were extremely busy in arranging our goods, and in selling.

  16. Then there is no way of arranging this little affair, is there?

  17. Germany and are sent to England, where girls are employed in sorting and repacking and arranging them, for the purpose of being sold wholesale.

  18. Thus the men unionists have had their way in arranging that their standard wage should not be lowered by the influx of cheap labour offered by women.

  19. A raised bed, on which to sit during the day and sleep during the night, is formed either by leaving a part of the snow-bank or else by bringing in blocks and arranging them as a solid mass.

  20. There is great difference in the length of the garments worn by the eastern and the western Eskimo as well as in the manner of arranging the strips of which they are made.

  21. If I succeed in arranging something according to his wishes, I hope that he will not again quit us.

  22. In a word, she proposed coming on to her admirer and, as she supposed, her victim, and having the satisfaction of giving him his cooling draughts and arranging his bandages.

  23. He came in with her last night and is arranging a public reception, talking like the business manager of a Greek goddess.

  24. For some time Mr. Lee had been in the city arranging for material, which would be shipped immediately.

  25. The elder Hojo, though a crafty and long-headed statesman, made a sad mistake while arranging the affairs of his son.

  26. It was with a tightening about the heart that Sampei watched her long fingers arranging sweetmeats on a tray, pouring water on the leaves, which straightway expanded, and turned the liquid of a pale straw colour.

  27. While O'Tei, with a ghostly revival of coquetry, was arranging her tumbled hair by aid of a silver mirror, the Abbess drew her son aside, pleading urgent and important business.

  28. However, the enemy made no attack either on that night or the following day, but they were occupied in arranging their forces and making preparations.

  29. Bruno needed no second invitation: he at once began arranging the dead mouse as a kind of sofa.

  30. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage, which now extends from the top of p.

  31. When Mrs. Gladney received the note, she was arranging the few knick-knacks she had brought.

  32. They were standing face to face arranging the flowers.

  33. I am arranging a little surprise for your father.

  34. That night we spent in perfecting the trenches and arranging entrances to them, doing about as much work as we had the preceding night.

  35. Here I found General Wood, who was arranging for the camping of the brigade.

  36. Whenever the Crown Princess received a personal gift of flowers, she immediately sent it off to the hospital, often bringing a bouquet and arranging it herself.

  37. One moment she is instructing him to write to a poet and thank him for a copy of verses; at another she is arranging a picnic party in her own little garden near the Palace.

  38. He said, however, that he was arranging to go away himself very shortly for about three weeks, and he hoped I should be able to stay on at the Cerro during his absence, and so look after things until his return.

  39. One of them was Mamerto Gomez, the man I had seen at the pulperia; I recognised him at once, and he seemed to be directing the others, as if they were arranging some plan or other.

  40. She hoped for an inspiration at the last instant, as Basil had taught her to do in arranging a difficult situation between hero and heroine.

  41. A man-servant in livery was on the top of the coach arranging a large number of parcels and boxes, those intolerable appendages of travel.


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