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Example sentences for "following"

Lexicographically close words:
followers; followes; followest; followeth; followin; followinge; followis; followit; follows; followup
  1. Accordingly, on the following morning she went to the place and met her husband.

  2. So off he set, following the same road as Fritz, and meeting with much the same difficulties.

  3. Arndt folded his arms around Reutha, and walked with her through all the gorgeous rooms, the Hill-men and women following behind, and luring him with their sweetest songs and most bewitching smiles.

  4. He had been following a faint and much overgrown path, but at length, even that was lost sight of.

  5. Then the boy thanked the turtle-dove and recommenced his journey, following the course of the wind as it changed and chopped about to different points of the compass.

  6. On the following morning the Caliph had scarcely breakfasted when the Grand Vizier appeared to accompany him upon his walk, as he had commanded him.

  7. The knight listened intently to this, and as he was valiant and adventurous, on the following morning he mounted his horse, seized his lance, and set out for the castle.

  8. The following morning had scarcely dawned when the girl arose and tidied the house, and the boy drew the water and watered the garden, so that when the good woman got up she found all the housework done.

  9. And on the following day he mounted his steed and took his way to the enchanted castle, much fearing that some misfortune had happened to his brother there.

  10. In the night of the following day there came a messenger, who announced himself as coming from the person who had undertaken to procure the fox's liver; so the master of the house went out to see him.

  11. The courtiers all agreed with the Court musician, and the Emperor commanded him to show it to the people on the following Saturday, and let them hear it sing.

  12. We often see him following his master; he is a fine, brave fellow.

  13. Under the ordinary order of arrangement, the following may be taken as indications of the coins of Anglo-Saxon rulers:-- KINGS OF KENT.

  14. The coins of the ancients were of various metals, of which the following need only be specified.

  15. False coins may be divided into the following classes:-- I.

  16. Of family arms, which are occasionally met with on tokens, and also of crests, the following engraved examples will be sufficient to show their general character.

  17. The following extract from the preface to the British Museum “Guide to the Coins of the Ancients”[5] will give some idea of the uses of Greek Numismatics.

  18. The following are a few of the many epochs or æras according to which coins are dated:-- The Seleucid æra begins B.

  19. The inscriptions on Greek coins may be divided into the following principal classes:-- (i.

  20. Each series may be again subdivided into an enormous number of classes, as will be seen when we come to examine the Greek and Roman series to which the following pages will be devoted.

  21. These varieties will be best understood by reference to the following engravings, which may be taken as general typical examples.

  22. They may be divided into the following classes:-- Coins of the Republic.

  23. As the family name does not always occur upon the coin, the following table of surnames and of the families to which they belong will be found useful to the young collector in arranging his coins.

  24. The entire figure of Zeus appears in various attitudes, of which the following are of most frequent occurrence:-- Zeus enthroned (Fig.

  25. The following fact is mentioned as a 'paradox.

  26. It took place, however, on the following day, on Wimbledon Common, and after exchanging a single shot the matter was adjusted.

  27. The following narrative elucidates a still more modern phase of this elegant 'industry.

  28. While making the necessary preparations he was observed by a constable, who at once took him into custody, and on the following morning he was carried before the magistrate, where all the circumstances of the affair came out.

  29. A gambling house at the end of the last century was conducted by the following officials:-- 1.

  30. Hand a pack of cards to a party, requesting him to make up parcels of cards, in the following manner.

  31. I don't want your Yes now; you will say it at Boulogne.

  32. The Croupiere, the assistant of the former, standing by to supervise the losing cards,--so that when there were many at play he might not lose by overlooking anything which might turn up to his profit.

  33. This arrangement was, however, defeated, by Lieut.

  34. The worthy bishop stood godfather to one of Rumbold's children; the other godfather was the Nabob of Arcot, and the child was christened "Mahomet.

  35. Following we present a list of his works compiled from the list in the January, 1933 issue of the Science Fiction Digest, through the courtesy of Julius Schwartz.

  36. Just to show that we are always open to both sides, following are a couple of fans who still choose to 'lay it on thick.

  37. I feel certain that a large and appreciative following may be built up among the disciples of this branch of literature.

  38. However, the Ackerman side is taking a big leap with the following defenses.

  39. Searight Following are two letters in direct contrast.

  40. But now the quarrel between the two was out in the open, and through the following days and weeks, Lawrie seemed possessed of some imp of perversity and taunted and gibed at Williams continuously.

  41. In the February following his settlement at Jena, he obtained the hand of Fräulein Lengefeld; a happiness, with the prospect of which he had long associated all the pleasures which he hoped for from the future.

  42. Positions like the following grieved me to the very soul: How can there ever be an experiment that shall correspond with an idea?

  43. Not even in June of the following year was the disease quite overcome.

  44. He himself had even, in the manner of those days, composed a long Prayer, which he in later years addressed to God every morning, and which began with the following lines: True Watcher of Israel!

  45. And the next-following years did pass untroubled over the prosperous Family.

  46. The Thalia was in consequence relinquished at the end of 1793: and the first number of the Horen came out early in the following year.

  47. Not till August following could the Father announce that she was saved, and from day to day growing stronger.

  48. As he died on the Octave of the Epiphany, the feast is kept on the following day, January 14.

  49. Another sign of the practical is the Swiss custom to keep the schools in mountain villages open only during the long Alpine winter--from the beginning of October till the following Easter.

  50. Following the pilgrims came merchants from Lucerne, Zurich, and Basel, to trade with the rich towns of fertile Lombardy.

  51. The following day, Sunday, in uncertain weather, they went down on to the glacier again, meaning to go to Zermatt.

  52. All three rates show a tendency to dwindle, following the rule of the western European countries.

  53. For the first time it was as though she found sufficient support in her own company and did not need to be for ever following and leaning upon other people.

  54. As for Killigrew, he was soon following where Ishmael led, and would have gone bug-hunting with him had he so decreed, though he felt relieved that Ishmael had cast such things aside.

  55. Archelaus stood glowering, thought of nothing to say in reply, and found himself following his young brother into the house.

  56. So defined down to the waist, and then this thing that makes a parade of not following nature.

  57. Ishmael was not the only one who felt a deadening of the spirit that night, and even on awakening the following morning.

  58. Archelaus was following with the doctor in his trap, said Nicky briefly.

  59. It was only on the day following the supper party that he began to be affected by her as a violent personality.

  60. Suddenly she felt she could bear no longer that easy mastery, those following lips that passed and repassed over hers and could so easily have settled if they chose.

  61. I saw the child again on the following day.

  62. These baths were continued on the following days, alternately with damp dressings.

  63. On the following morning, July 24, I found him cheerful, with no fever, and hungry.

  64. The greater part of the following statements has been borrowed from the excellent work of the author referred to, from the writings of A.

  65. On May 29 and following days the œdema continued to diminish, and had totally disappeared eight or ten days later.

  66. It is best, therefore, to select one day of the week for artificial feeding, and the corresponding day of the following week for the extraction of the venom.

  67. At the end of 1901 the following note was forwarded to us by Dr.

  68. By degrees the quantity of venom is increased and that of the hypochlorite progressively diminished, and the injections are repeated every three or four days, while attentively following the variations in the weight of the animals.

  69. They can be separated in the following manner:-- The solution of venom is heated to 90° C.

  70. On the following day the symptoms had disappeared, and forty-eight hours afterwards the patient returned to duty.

  71. There the widow's high spirits, her complete enjoyment, were remarked by more than one of her acquaintances; she danced one dance with her lover, and with another young man made an engagement for the following week.

  72. Mrs. Dewar, who alone could have told something, never recovered consciousness and died on the day following the crime.

  73. In commenting on the trial the following day, the Times stigmatised as "feeble" the prevarications by which Mrs. Dyson tried to explain away her intimacy with Peace.

  74. On the following day he went out early in the morning, leaving word that, should a lady whom he was expecting, call to see him, she was to be shown up to his room.

  75. She was still further surprised when, on the following day, Mr. Hayes told her that he was not going after all to occupy the house, and made her a present of the cylinder stove.

  76. On the following Thursday, the day before Parkman's disappearance, the Professor told Littlefield to get him a pint of blood from the Massachusetts Hospital; he said that he wanted it for an experiment.

  77. Another doctor was sent for, but at ten o'clock the following morning, after protracted suffering, Hippolyte Ballet passed away.

  78. It was not until June 3 that Holmes was put on his trial for fraud, and the following day pleaded guilty.

  79. On the morning of the following day, Sunday, the 14th, Dunedin was horrified by the discovery of a far more terrible crime, tigerish certainly in its apparent ferocity.

  80. This was found the following day concealed in a hole in a field.

  81. In the Quarto of 1603 there is also a trace of the following speech of Hamlet, omitted in the subsequent Quartos but given in the Folios.

  82. Besides these, several editions, usually known as Players' Quartos, were printed at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the following century.

  83. The Folios have only the following lines: 'The King his Master, needs must take it ill That he so slightly valued in his Messenger, Should haue him thus restrained.

  84. The second and following Folios put a full stop at 'King.

  85. IV In the following January I took a partner in my practice.

  86. He did not leap and gambol for joy, but he thrust his nose into my hand and then walked just in front of me, wagging his tail, and looking back from time to time to see that I understood and was following him.

  87. Glory reached its flood on the following day.

  88. On the following afternoon he left King's Cross for Salsay on the Yorkshire coast.

  89. Mrs Smithers sent a polite note to Messrs Garson & Begg to say why her husband would be unable to be at work as usual on the following day.

  90. I was just thinking of getting out of bed and following you down the stairs.

  91. I knew nothing more till I was awakened by him early on the following morning.

  92. On the following day he inquired at the Lost Property Office if the money had been brought back.

  93. The greater part of his arrangements had already been made, and most of his things packed; but there were still a few details to settle, and he was to leave for the north early on the following morning.

  94. Each instant seemed an eternity until she thought she could see Reuben Yoxall turn and begin to worm his way back toward her, with another stealthy shadow following him.

  95. Slyne was not slow in following him, but stubbed his toes hurtfully on his way to the stair and could scarcely repress the curse that rose to his lips.

  96. They had faced about and were following his every movement with malevolent eyes.

  97. He did not look back, but she was aware of other figures which also had appeared in a moment from nowhere, and were following him on tiptoe, under cover where it could be had.

  98. On the following morning the main force of the enemy appeared in front of Margate, the recently fortified port.

  99. During the following week the entire army of the foe was allowed to land in England, and were speedily exterminated.

  100. They retired for the night, and on the following morning were in front of Westgate-on-Sea.

  101. The forts were silenced in five minutes, and although on the following morning the Household Brigade came to the rescue, the assistance thus afforded was of no avail.

  102. He rejected, the following month, the articles of the months before.

  103. After the card-playing was over she kept Vinet from following the other guests; she was furious and wanted vengeance, and was grossly rude to the colonel when he bade her good-night.

  104. When Rogron turned to go home, recalled by a sense of his dinner-hour, Vinet stopped the colonel from following him by taking Gouraud's arm.

  105. Priam Farll then overheard the following conversation:-- Man: Well, what are you going to have?

  106. Following him came the manager of the Hôtel Belvedere at Mont Pélerin, near Vevey, Switzerland, who related a similar tale and was equally unshaken.

  107. The congregation of sixteen or seventeen at the first service grew the following Sabbath, to forty worshippers.

  108. His private secretary gave the following account, in the "Temple Magazine," of a week day and a Sunday in Dr.

  109. Next came a very heavy man, but immediately following him a tall, lean man.

  110. Smith gives the following instance: "A few years ago the pastor of a small country church in Massachusetts resolved to try Dr.

  111. Indeed, he frequently leaves Philadelphia at midnight after a Sunday of hard work, travels and lectures as far as Kansas and is back again for Friday evening prayer meeting and for his duties the following Sunday.

  112. Some idea of how the other great universities of the country compare with regard to the number of students attending them with this new university of Philadelphia is shown by the following table: Name.

  113. The following Sunday a receipt is placed in their seat, a duplicate being kept in the office.

  114. It directed me to meet the members of the Society at Charing Cross station at two o'clock on the following day.

  115. When the roar of the following wave came close, so close that the voices of the officers of the ship could be no longer heard, Natalie spoke.

  116. While I was thus reflecting, the following conversation took place between Brande and Grey.

  117. The following year he completed his "Elementary course of Philosophy.

  118. Lamennais' theory may be stated in the following terms: A natural equality among men, and, as necessary consequences, 1.

  119. If I mistake not, the following are the phases through which the human mind has passed, since the revival of learning in the eleventh century.

  120. I particularly call the attention of my readers to the following evident contradictions: "With the Jesuits, there is no éclat, no grandeur.

  121. In the following centuries the evil reached its height; a great part of the riches of the peninsula had passed into the hands of the Jews, and almost all the Christians found themselves their debtors.

  122. Before they could reach it, there was a yelling behind them and a dozen troopers were in the fields, following them desperately.

  123. Not a cable had been cut following the declaration of war; and now the submarine cables and the wireless began to bring official news from the enemy--news addressed not to the American government, but to the American people.

  124. In the following play we find him, now thirty-nine, as tutor to a rich man's children in Nordland.

  125. It has the naturalness of the spoken word, following blithely the quips and pranks of thought that give zest to conversation but are usually flattened out before they reach print.

  126. He preaches to a congregation of boulders in the old granite quarry, and stands dreaming over the mill dam, following the course of the bubbles as they burst in foam.

  127. All the important matters therein are discussed in the following three books.

  128. I took an atom of this on the point of a needle; that atom, when placed under the microscope, showed me the following scene.

  129. And by the following day, at the latest, you can expect me here in this room--with your precious document!

  130. But in the case of this chap we think is following us around, I'm not dead sure that he is Gestapo.

  131. He's following us around," he said presently, "but one of my men is also following him around.

  132. I am sure that she does not," said Sylvia, who instinctively felt that the conversation was following an undesirable course.

  133. Colonel Grant, following his upward glance, beheld Lady O'Moy for the first time.

  134. The herd was driven in on the following afternoon, by when the rain had ceased, and our lieutenant had every reason to be pleased when he beheld the solid beasts procured.

  135. Colonel Grant arrived, sir, and I understood him to say that he had been following Count Samoval.

  136. And straight ahead they went, following that mule track for some five or six miles until it began to slope gently towards the plain again.

  137. Jupiter is also distinguished by the name of Ammon from the following circumstance: Bacchus being in the midst of the sands of Arabia, was seized with a thirst so burning, that he was reduced to long even for a drop of water.

  138. The following description of one of their gods, we think, also affords additional ground for this opinion.

  139. It was in one of her temples that the following occurrence took place, from which she adopted this device.

  140. The day following his birth he offered an early proof of his dishonest propensities, by stealing away the oxen of Admetus which Apollo tended.

  141. Illustration] The ancients, following the inspirations of an undisciplined imagination, deified alike Virtues, Vices, and Evil principles.

  142. Pelias the usurper, was desirous of following so pleasant an example, and his daughters persuaded by Medea, who was anxious to avenge her husband's wrongs, destroyed him with their own hands.

  143. With the following lines of the lamented L.

  144. All writers agree in their delineation of the wild madness which distinguished his festivals: witness the following description of a pedestal, on which was an imitation of an altar to Bacchus.

  145. We cannot better conclude our account of this important Deity, than by the following epigram, written under one of his statues.

  146. Illustration] Following the fortunes of Ulysses--scarcely had he quitted the Phrygian shores, than he and his companions became the sport of Neptune and Juno, and a crowd of miseries beset them.

  147. Illustration] His adventure with Omphale is amusing; while the latter was travelling with Hercules, a sacrifice which was to take place on the following day, caused Omphale and the hero to seek separate apartments.

  148. The Trojans following the advice of Sinon, beat down part of the wall to make an entrance for the horse into the city; they then celebrated the deliverance of their country with feasts and festivals.


  149. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "following" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adherent; after; alike; appendage; attendance; attendant; back; behind; below; buff; chase; cohort; coming; company; consecutive; consequent; consequential; continuation; continuity; cortege; counterfeit; counterfeiting; court; courtier; dependent; derivative; descent; disciple; dogging; ensuing; entourage; espial; espionage; extension; fake; fan; favoring; final; fishing; flunky; follower; following; forgery; future; hangover; henchman; homogeneous; hunting; identical; imitated; imitation; impersonation; imposture; impression; intelligence; junior; lateness; later; like; line; lineage; lineal; mirroring; mock; next; observation; order; parasite; parody; partisan; phony; piscatory; plagiarism; posterior; posteriority; procession; progression; prolongation; prosecution; provenience; proximate; public; pursuance; pursuer; pursuit; quest; remainder; repetition; resultant; retinue; rotation; rout; satellite; searching; second; sectary; sequel; sequence; sequential; series; shadow; shadowing; similar; simulated; simulation; since; spying; stalking; subsequent; succeeding; succession; successive; successor; suite; supporter; surveillance; tail; tailing; takeoff; tracking; trade; trailing; train; votary


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    following legislative; following the; following verses