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Example sentences for "hiring"

Lexicographically close words:
hireling; hirelings; hirer; hirers; hires; hirpling; hirselfe; hirsute; hirt; hirundines
  1. John Bulmer of West Cottam, husbandman, for hiring servants without recording their names and salaries before the Chief Constable, contra formam statuti, etc.

  2. Penalty on a servant departing without such testimonial, imprisonment or whipping; on any one hiring him, 5l.

  3. Most houses try to obviate it in so far as possible by hiring only the kind of people they want to keep.

  4. He may not listen, and most of the men who have had experience in hiring and firing say that he will not, but that is his own responsibility.

  5. The pitiless publicity which was given the evil of hiring girls at starvation wages some years ago (in particular through the short stories of O.

  6. He isn't hiring any men," she ventured, adapting a set phrase she had often heard Belle use.

  7. Hiring a calesa, he drove at once to Lima, to the house of the late Mr. Ponsonby.

  8. Fortunate were those who possessed experienced men as leaders, or who in hiring the services of one of the numerous plains guides obtained one of genuine experience.

  9. On the beach there was invariably an immense wrangle over the hiring of boats to go up the river.

  10. I could always earn my living there in the fields and paint late at night, but I won’t come till I have enough money for lessons and models and a studio, though I think I could draw horses without hiring them.

  11. He bethought himself of selecting the secluded restaurant and hiring the private room for the dinner, but the figure of Ruth resurged, blotting Eleanor’s out.

  12. No picture is any good that is done without models; if you wanted to paint a horse you would have to hire a horse, and that is even more expensive than hiring a man.

  13. Returning to Pisa, and hiring a good-tempered Vetturino, and his four horses, to take us on to Rome, we travelled through pleasant Tuscan villages and cheerful scenery all day.

  14. With the money collected at a festa, they usually pay for the dressing of the church, and for the hiring of the band, and for the tapers.

  15. I have had nothing to do with hiring them, my dear," he said, firmly.

  16. When have you taken to hiring new hands without consulting me?

  17. A man imagines that by hiring a horse and driving in the park he will show people that he is as good as the neighbor who drives his own horse.

  18. They began at the bottom--never hiring help for the mere appearance or convenience of their assistance.

  19. It was only by hiring the militia of some of those nations to oppose to that of others, that the emperors were for some time able to defend themselves.

  20. The government advances the expense of establishing the different offices, and of buying or hiring the necessary horses or carriages, and is repaid, with a large profit, by the duties upon what is carried.

  21. Sir Henry and himself were hiring me," replied she.

  22. Perhaps "runaway" suggests the idea of those absent through drunkenness, or those who simply feared to face the ordeal of the larger hiring and so ran away.

  23. English law treated as cases of hiring but as independent varieties of contract.

  24. Hiring would generally be applied to contracts in which the services of a man or the use of a thing are engaged for a short time.

  25. Hiring Fairs, or Statute Fairs, still held in Wales and some parts of England, were formerly an annual fixture in every important country town.

  26. No doubt, Colchester had represented to the Chapter the wisdom of providing him with a companion from the monastery instead of his hiring a courier as before.

  27. Connected with the fairs is the so-called “Statutes,” a day in May for hiring servants.

  28. The date of hiring the "cellar," was about Lady Day (March 25th).

  29. It must, farther, be noted that the hiring of this receptacle was, in fact, by no means so easy a matter as the accounts ordinarily given would lead us to suppose.

  30. He's just been in here, and I've settled the matter by hiring a car for his party from the Pullman folks and footing the bill myself.

  31. The new railroad has probably popularized itself from the outset by hiring the near-by farmers and their teams to grade the line through their localities, particularly where an almost level country makes the grading a slight matter.

  32. When the Jersey farmer began haying that August, he found less trouble than he had ever before experienced in hiring low-priced help.

  33. Generally each printed announcement by the Chief Constable of a statute fair for hiring within his hundred concluded with the intimation--"Dinner on Table at two o'clock, price 2s.

  34. Old Leroux is liable to prosecution for hiring your services at all without a permit.

  35. Him he knows, for already he has had dealings with him in the hiring of the ship.

  36. One may say that we bought the cargo, which was not a great one, on our own risk, therefore, hiring the vessel to wait our needs, in case we found it better to fly or to land elsewhere presently.

  37. After that, you can operate at a small fraction of the expense of hiring a professional.

  38. A classic anecdote of New York's Fleet Street may illustrate the point: The publisher of a national weekly was hiring a newspaper man as editor.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hiring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appointment; booking; briefing; charter; employment; engagement; engaging; hire; lease; let; placement; rent; rental; reservation