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Example sentences for "disengaging"

Lexicographically close words:
disenfranchisement; disengage; disengaged; disengagement; disengages; disent; disentangle; disentangled; disentanglement; disentangling
  1. The fables they produced were infinite in number and variety, beautiful, and so pregnant with thought under the guise of fancy that long centuries scarcely sufficed for disengaging all that they contained.

  2. Pallas stands for reason, capable of weighing motives, of disengaging a necessary act of retributive justice from brute murder.

  3. To obviate this, we apply the disengaging apparatus shown at L (Fig.

  4. The action is so rapid, owing to the use of the magnetic disengaging gear, that the chances of two or more meters making contact at the same moment are rendered extremely small.

  5. Then disengaging herself, with a blushing cheek, she allowed Felix to embrace her.

  6. She was there, and in a moment the meeting so long and tenderly anticipated was over, and the girl, gently disengaging herself with wet cheeks from his arms, turned to his companion.

  7. No," he responded, stamping his foot impatiently, and roughly disengaging his hands from his mother's grasp.

  8. Sister Agnes, wiping her eyes, after gently disengaging the young arms from her neck.

  9. But she merely pressed his hand for a reply and, disengaging her dress, darted from the place.

  10. The manner of disengaging myself from the noose still remains to be determined, but it is quite plain that at Blue-Stocking Hall, which is a much more appropriate name than Glenalta, I cannot stay.

  11. One by one the boats were lowered, and the disengaging gear of the falls cast off without a hitch.

  12. Deftly the patent disengaging gear of the falls was cast off, the men bent to their stout ash oars with a will, and five minutes later the boat was alongside the barque.

  13. This the animal tossed about in the hope of disengaging himself, and in so doing presented the appearance of a ship riding at anchor--all that could be seen on such nights being the moving light.

  14. After carefully disengaging himself from his comrades, he crept quietly away, and soon vanished entirely from sight on the northern side of the spreading beech.

  15. I had made a motion which the viper understood; and now, partly disengaging itself from my bosom, where it had lain perdu, it raised its head to a level with my face, and stared upon my enemy with its glittering eyes.

  16. Of sorrow, yet of joy, my prince," replied Maloosray, disengaging himself.

  17. The Hottentot only grinned in reply; and disengaging the knife which always hung at Nick's girdle, began grubbing in the ground among the stones.

  18. Yes, quite well, and reconciled with some difficulty to remain where they are," she returned, disengaging herself and sinking rather than sitting down into a corner of a sofa nearest her.

  19. The ant is still enveloped in its pellicle; this the workers also pull off, carefully disengaging every member from its case, and nicely expanding the wings of such as are furnished with them.

  20. And when at length formed anew or repaired, an unlucky bee or wasp, or an overgrown fly, will perversely entangle itself in toils not intended for insects of its bulk, and in disengaging itself once more leave the net in ruin.

  21. She glanced at the bed, slowly disengaging her hand.

  22. The men laid hands upon him, and disengaging Oliver from his grasp, held him back.

  23. Reine, suddenly disengaging herself from the arm which was still about her waist.

  24. Take my sister away," said Christian, disengaging his hand from the young girl, who was covering it with kisses and tears.

  25. He felt himself a sculptor in the very substance of life, moulding a living creature afresh, disengaging it from harsh and hindering conditions.


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