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Example sentences for "depending"

Lexicographically close words:
dependencies; dependency; dependent; dependents; dependeth; depends; depenses; dephlogisticated; depict; depicted
  1. You cannot know how much was depending on the success or failure of this play.

  2. He had fallen into that habit, not feeling like depending on some one else to do it.

  3. It may vary from this to 12 or more, depending upon the depth of the fireplace.

  4. Thus the efficiency of fireplaces may be materially increased, the degree depending upon the character of the air duct installed.

  5. Most of them, depending on the fact that hot air rises, deliver air heated in or around the fireplace through a register, located above the fire, into the upper part of the room, which is always the warmest part.

  6. Depending persons would have been told in plain terms, that it was a "service expected from them, under pain of the public business being put into more complying hands.

  7. Thirdly, What is really and truly meant by that phrase of "a depending kingdom," as applied to Ireland; and wherein that dependency consisteth?

  8. The second paragraph, which it is said will be taken notice of as a motive to find the bill, is, what the author says of Ireland being a depending kingdom.

  9. Therefore by this expression, a "depending kingdom," there is no more understood than that by a statute made here in the 33d year of Henry 8th.

  10. Depending chiefly on the river for subsistence, they do not wander so much as those who hunt the kangaroo and opossum in the higher country near our colony.

  11. This power they acquire chiefly by ascending trees from infancy, their mode of climbing depending as much on the toes as the fingers.

  12. Thereupon, mounting the steps of the dais and reseating himself in his chair, he carefully donned his robes of state, composed his features, and gently pulled a golden tassel depending from a silken cord at his elbow.

  13. A silken canopy, depending from gilded chains fastened to the ceiling, swung just above their heads.

  14. The commander must make his choice of methods, depending on his troops and on himself.

  15. But this charge, depending on a moral effect, will not always succeed.

  16. There could not have been developed an organism depending on offensive and defensive movements for food and life without an interest in what we call a dangerous or precarious situation.

  17. In the meantime, there are persons who, not waiting for the evolution of the race, are beginning to manifest this power in a greater or lesser degree, depending much upon favorable circumstances, etc.

  18. The phenomena of Psychomancy may be divided into three general classes, depending upon the nature of the "seeing," as follows: I.

  19. The tide had nearly reached its lowest, and the Blue Wanderer lay half in, half out of the water; her stern perched high, her bow with the useless anchor rope depending from it, dipped deep.

  20. So I am depending for my pleasure on your companionship, you see.

  21. The utter futility of depending upon oral suggestions during the class hour, when the pupils are supposed to be doing individual work, is easily apparent on a moment's reflection.

  22. Mark it, The sceptre, nor a law-giver; the legislative power depending on the sceptre of the kingdom, shall not depart from Judah till Shiloh come.

  23. If any shall count my papers worth the scribbling against, let him deal with my arguments, and things immediately depending upon them, and not conclude that he hath confuted a book, when he hath only quarrelled at words.

  24. These things therefore Adam was to learn from his calling, that he might neither think too highly of himself, nor forget to live by faith, and depending on the Lord God, to be blessed of him.

  25. One chief objection to the Indian origin of these works is, as already stated, that their builders must have been sedentary, depending largely upon agriculture for subsistence.

  26. The only occasional exception is with young girls depending on the needle for support, inasmuch as the competition here is so severe.

  27. An important benevolent association, depending solely on its voluntary contributions from individuals, will always be weak and incomplete in its machinery.

  28. There is no doubt that a lad with a trade feels a peculiar independence of the world, and is much less likely to take up dishonest means of living than one depending on manual labor, or chance means of living.

  29. A man may travel from one end of the Andes to the other, depending altogether on the good people he meets.

  30. The wave-movement has a rate of from twenty to thirty miles a minute, depending on the elasticity of the rock and the elevations on the surface.

  31. It was a comfort, too, to see Those dogs that from him ne'er would rove, And always eyed him reverently, With glances of depending love.

  32. After the sheets (schedae) had been dried and bleached in the sun, they were rid by scraping of rough places and trimmed into uniform sizes, depending upon the length of the strips of pith.

  33. The commonest form of gambling was our "heads or tails," coins being used as with us, the value depending on the means of the players.

  34. The hot air from the furnace was not conducted into the rooms directly, as it is with us, but was made to circulate under the floors and through spaces between the walls, the temperature of the room depending upon its proximity to the furnace.

  35. This follows at once from what may be called the moral argument for the Existence of God, or that depending on man's free will.

  36. The shafts are from five to twelve inches in depth, and from one-half to one and a half inches in diameter, depending largely upon the age and size of the spider.

  37. Some of their structures are finished early in winter, others not until spring, everything depending on the weather and the condition of the birds.

  38. These are the men in whose custody even now are the accumulations on which you, Mr. Policy-holder, are depending to take care of your wife and little ones, should you die.

  39. It also proves my contention that the "System," while depending on burglary for its largest returns, does not despise the small profits of the pick-pocket.

  40. Whitney assured me that his arrangement with Rogers was tentative, depending on whether he could get the charter and could carry out his other plans.

  41. Prepare fruit, which may or may not be peeled, and cut into pieces depending on the variety.

  42. Boil from 20 to 45 minutes, depending upon weight of fish.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    attendant; childlike; conditional; conditioned; confiding; contingent; credulous; dangling; dependent; falling; flowing; guileless; hanging; hung; innocent; naive; open; pendent; pending; pendulous; predicated; suspended; swinging; trusting; trusty; uncounted; undecided; undetermined; unfixed; unsettled; unsuspecting; unsuspicious; untold; weeping