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Example sentences for "commuting"

Lexicographically close words:
commutators; commute; commuted; commuter; commuters; commyng; commytted; como; comodities; comoedia
  1. The governor is invested with the royal prerogative of pardoning criminals, or commuting the sentences pronounced upon them by the courts.

  2. Scarcely separable from the practice of fines was that of commuting penances for money.

  3. They were all sentenced to death, and immediately after the Khedive's Decree commuting their sentence to banishment for life was read.

  4. A sentence of death was to be recorded on this plea, but a Decree should be signed commuting the sentence to exile from Egypt.

  5. Immediately afterwards the Decree commuting the sentence to exile for life was read.

  6. My first stop in the morning, after I had been careful to take a late commuting train in to the city in order to avoid business men who were sure to know and greet Winnie Tompkins, was the Pond Club.

  7. Well, you have a week-end coming up, so you might just as well go on commuting between your office and Bedford Hills as be pulled off the fast freight at Oneonta.

  8. Commuting brought them to Number Eleven Indiana Avenue, Pemberton Heights.

  9. She was the last of the commuting family to reach the house that evening, and on crossing the threshold was greeted with a sense of cheer.

  10. A good rule to follow in commuting a vow into something less is that more frequent reception of the Sacraments be the substitute ordered.

  11. Mendicants) have also the power of commuting; but those who have only the power of commuting may not change a vow into something that is of notably less value.

  12. You see, as we get out of commuting distance from New York, the rents'll get cheaper, and as soon as we find a house we want we'll just settle down.

  13. And play pinochle on the commuting trains.

  14. Commuting at first was very tiring for both Nan and Lucy.

  15. Here, thanks to the automobile and commuting trains, was the solution.

  16. Two people once spent years looking for a place within easy commuting distance of Philadelphia.

  17. Nor do all such cling to the commuting fringe of the larger cities.

  18. Since confession stories are just as fascinating in home building as in the lurid fiction of the woodpulp magazines, we cite the experience of a family that bought a home nearly two years ago within the New York commuting zone.

  19. Today's pioneer decides whether he will have a house and five or more acres in commuting distance of the city, a farm several hours away from it, or a sporting estate.

  20. But more and more people are taking to commuting and we look to that to save things.

  21. Because commuting is a tough and gruelling discipline.

  22. The custom of living in the suburbs, commuting as they call it here, hadn't begun in the seventies.

  23. The smug, complacent commuting folk we knew all had these moments of almost unendurable stress, yet they gave no sign.

  24. The cases then in which he would allow the Bank to do so, would be those of a country bank failing, or closing, or commuting its own circulation for that of the Bank of England.

  25. He used a favorite phrase of commuting captains of commerce: "Personally, I'd be glad to pay you more, but fifteen is all the position is worth.

  26. Pitt had intended to complete the Union by measures for admitting Catholics into Parliament, for commuting tithes, and for paying the Catholic clergy.

  27. The Duke of Bedford, in 1807, dwelt on the importance of commuting tithes into a land-tax, and ultimately into land.

  28. Pitt intended the Union to be immediately followed by measures admitting the Catholics into the Imperial Parliament, paying the priests, and commuting the tithes.

  29. I was commuting to work each day by bicycle.

  30. There is a certain charm about what is called, ridiculously enough, a "commuting town," which is altogether lacking in other communities.

  31. A "commuting town" is wholly a place of homes--not of homes diluted with offices, factories and shops.

  32. Commuting costs are largely eliminated when the young leave the nest, but only in the alcids does nest leaving occur long before attainment of full growth.

  33. Breeding Ashmole (1963) suggested that the clutch size of some oceanic birds is small and colonies occupy only part of the available habitat because food resources within efficient commuting distance of the breeding site are limited.


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