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Example sentences for "choosing"

Lexicographically close words:
chooser; choosers; chooses; choosest; chooseth; chop; chopped; chopper; choppers; choppin
  1. It employs none of the devices by which lightness is achieved, choosing as its aim, rather, the representation of a plastic quality that exploits rather than denies the meatiness of flesh texture.

  2. The very method of choosing the leaders of great civic choreographic spectacles insured the association of people of consequence, for these leaders were always selected from the highest rank of citizens.

  3. Now she rejoiced that her wealthy father imposed no restriction upon her in the management of household affairs, for she need spare no expense in choosing the animal she intended to offer as a sacrifice.

  4. Who else in Alexandria would consult the daughter long, when he was choosing her future husband?

  5. There is some apparently congenital defect in the Indians, for instance, that keeps them from choosing civilization and Christianity.

  6. But Ocean and River and Lake have certain relations to the periods of human life which they who are choosing their places of abode should consider.

  7. What should decide one, in choosing a summer residence?

  8. And so, in choosing your clergyman, other things being equal, prefer the one of a wholesome and cheerful habit of mind and body.

  9. The poor man was greatly perplexed in choosing a name for her.

  10. Such is the difference of the languages, or such my want of skill in choosing words.

  11. In contrasting such a poem with "Hiawatha," we see the wisdom of Longfellow in choosing an antique vehicle, or rhythmic style.

  12. It is far superior to any mere committees of its own choosing and it is weighing the entire railroad situation as perhaps it never before has been weighed.

  13. He asked to see some that suited Alla ad Deen in size; and after choosing a suit for himself which he liked best, and rejecting others which he did not think handsome enough, he bade Alla ad Deen choose those he preferred.

  14. He drew out five or six very large fishes; and the caliph choosing the two biggest, tied them together by the head, with the twig of a tree.

  15. The jeweller, not choosing to receive a stranger into his house, rose up, and went to speak to him.

  16. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in the soul.

  17. And this not for the sake of sharpening the intellect, still less of generating that self-satisfaction which is the closest attendant upon criticism, but for the sake of choosing the best path and the best companions upon it.

  18. After this period there were fewer of such in Shakspere's life; and if there had been more of them they would have been of less import as to their operation on a mind more fully formed and more capable of choosing its own influences.

  19. But in choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states and not per capita,[78] the representation from each state having one vote.

  20. The Legislature may determine the time of choosing and assembling the Electors, and the manner of certifying and transmitting their votes.

  21. The Legislature may determine the time of choosing the Electors, and of their giving their votes; and the manner of certifying and transmitting their votes--But the election shall be on the same day through-out the U.

  22. But in all his scenes Giotto has succeeded, not only in choosing the most appropriate figures for illustrating his meaning, but in seizing the very moment which is most significant.

  23. By choosing incidents like these from real home life, Giotto, through his painting, humanized the mysteries of faith, and brought them close to common feeling.

  24. Some way back I made some allusion to the way in which many of the penguins were choosing sites up the precipitous sides of the Cape at the back of the rookery.

  25. I know not how I shall offend,' Shakespeare now wrote to him, 'in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden.

  26. As owner of the manuscript Thorpe exerted the right of choosing a patron for the venture and of supplying the dedicatory epistle.

  27. One of the least reputable of these efforts of Nash survives in an obscene love-poem entitled 'The Choosing of Valentines,' which may be dated in 1595.

  28. Although it pleased God that I should be born in the rank which I this day occupy, still I can not forbear admiring the bounty of Providence in choosing me, the youngest of your daughters, for the noblest kingdom in Europe.

  29. For my part, I look on Mr. Allan's choosing my favourite poem for his subject, to be one of the highest compliments I have ever received.

  30. Concerning the choosing of a day for marriage, or for planting, or sowing.

  31. Now, will any one bring forward this, that in choosing certain particular days for particular actions, men bring about certain new destinies for their actions?

  32. Can a man be said to change by an act of choice that which has already been determined for him, whilst that which he himself has determined in the choosing of a day cannot be changed by another power?

  33. He stayed a little while after that, but he read aloud, choosing a humorous story and laughing very hard at all the proper places.

  34. He felt that he had to make his own case clear, or he might have noticed with what care she was choosing her words.

  35. These were the lay and ecclesiastical princes in whom was vested the right of choosing the Emperor.

  36. You got my note," he said, choosing to ignore the result of his observations.

  37. When a man chooses the methods of Judas it seems to me there need be no picking or choosing of words.

  38. On standing in again Hillyar prepared to anchor, but ordered the "Cherub" to keep underway, choosing a position whence she could most annoy their opponent.

  39. Men like me, before choosing a bride, should have a paradise to offer her, and a paradise in Madrid is worth as much as a man’s eye.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "choosing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    choice; choosing; constituent; decision; discriminating; eclectic; election; elective; particular; pick; preference; selection; selective; volition; will