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Example sentences for "consorting"

Lexicographically close words:
consonant; consonantal; consonants; consort; consorted; consortium; consorts; conspecific; conspectu; conspectus
  1. Any respect, however, which he showed either to Phila or to his other wives did not go so far as to prevent him from consorting with any number of mistresses, and bearing, in this respect, the worst character of all the princes of his time.

  2. The very Parthenon itself saw Demetrius consorting with harlots and debauching free women of Athens.

  3. It was consorting with golden plover in a turnip field.

  4. A smaller species of wild goose has been occasionally noticed by Mr John Munro consorting with the grey-lag goose, but it has not been identified.

  5. Now if he hearken unto thee and desist from his consorting with sinners, or if his kinsmen lay gentle hands upon him, then we are willing that he should suffer few stripes; but if not, many stripes will be needful.

  6. Laddie, if I'm waxing too poetical, just consider that Mademoiselle Jeanne Bossière is not the ordinary woman the British private soldier is in the habit of consorting with.

  7. He multiplied them just as he did the voices in his choruses, consorting a choir of oboes and bassoons, and another of trumpets of almost equal numbers with his violins.

  8. There was a rogue consorting with this herd, and it was necessary to be particularly cautious in the attack.

  9. They could not approach nearer, as a notoriously vicious rogue elephant was consorting with the herd.

  10. A bronze statuette of Savonarola stood on an ebony pedestal between two windows, consorting somewhat oddly with the velvet draperies which swept down on either side.

  11. You know you are dead, and you have no business consorting with the living in this way.

  12. Unhappy child of thy mother, with thy happiness marred by consorting with this bed!

  13. In this way they fulfill their boast of consorting with all men in "harmony and fragrance.

  14. They knew me as consorting with profligates and criminals, and accused me of having stolen a young girl from the Marchese Semifonte, upon whose estate she had been born and bred.

  15. I could not tell whether I was consorting with a very refined profligate or (forgive me) a very singular fool.

  16. Her oracular moods always interested me, consorting so oddly with her youth.

  17. I that always was your sweetheart, to see you consorting with a mis-shapen squinting Whig of a Nonconformist like that.

  18. Chingachgook is a Mohican by blood, consorting with the Delawares by usage, as is the case with most of his tribe, which has long been broken up by the increase of our color.

  19. If we weren't among Americans, I should say we were consorting with Russians," said a fellow-countryman in my ear.

  20. We are consorting with sixty of the Sahib-log in the quaintest hotel that ever you saw.

  21. Then he sat in the shop, selling and buying and consorting with none of God's creatures, in accordance with his father's injunction.

  22. O my lord,' said she, 'hast thou forgotten thy fathers injunction and done that from which he forbade thee, in consorting with lewd folk?

  23. This Duck probably pairs for life; in the breeding season it is certainly social, many males consorting together, and many females making their nests within a small area.

  24. Sociable at all times, and freely consorting with other Limicoline species on the coast, in winter, especially, the Redshank becomes very gregarious.

  25. A form or variety of the Brent Goose, with the under parts below the breast nearly white, is commonly found consorting with birds of the typical colour.

  26. King--"was consorting with De Montfort, was fighting at Evesham, not contrary to your allegiance?

  27. Being a stranger to you, she might ask whom I was consorting with and whither I was going.

  28. Which I myself must taste in great degree, ‭ And date as endless, for consorting thee.

  29. Why, there was he, consorting with gentlefolks--gay as a lark!

  30. Now I bethought me of Umslopogaas, but merely looked blank and shrugged my shoulders, saying that I was not in the habit of consorting with evil-doers.

  31. For the rest he thought that she was a very unhappy woman who "lived with her own soul mourning the dead" and consorting with none upon the earth.


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