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Example sentences for "huddling"

Lexicographically close words:
huckstering; hucksters; huddle; huddled; huddles; hue; huebsch; hued; huel; hueless
  1. Ay, ay, I shall remember you for huddling me among the servants.

  2. And let's get to work," cried Jasper, huddling up his three letters.

  3. Clare, with a glance at the little figure, huddling at the foot of the table, began to read.

  4. When I was a small girl I likened the hemlock to you, sir, and there was I, leaning and huddling close to you, like the ghostly stripling of the woods.

  5. It was a mad question, but the boy, huddling in the launch, replied quiveringly: "Gone!

  6. Cooks and housemaids gather on back galleries, huddling together with shawls over their heads and red arms wrapped in flimsy aprons.

  7. For a full minute Shock stood, gazing sadly at the noble head, the face so marred, the huddling form.

  8. Huddling on a few things hastily, anyhow, Ethel rushed out wildly into the street, and ran with incredible speed where all the crowd of the town was running together, towards the blazing Asylum.

  9. Huddling on her dress hastily, she issued out alone and terrified, into the dark courtyard, and sought over the whole place in the black night for sight of Niaz.

  10. Jim and Ed placed their heavy canvas, sheep-lined coats on the floor and the girls laid down on them like ten pins, huddling together and putting their own coats over them.

  11. I could see them huddling together like buffalo cows when their calves are tender, and the men pushing to the front with caught-up weapons in their hands.

  12. While I prayed a rabbit that had been huddling under the brush and the snow, came hopping into my trail; it hopped twice and died with the cold.

  13. They could hear little bleats of alarm from the ewes and the huddling of the flock away from them, and the bunting of the Chief Ram's horns on the cedars as he came to smell them over.

  14. They could feel the flock huddling back, and the warmth of the packed fleeces.

  15. She signed to the Seven, and they came huddling to her like quail; she put them behind her.

  16. Don't let him kill me, Pa," he roared, huddling up to him.

  17. And huddling Phronsie up in her arms, Polly raced along to the window.

  18. Oh, I won't, Joe," huddling off from the little brown fingers.

  19. Davie, huddling down under the scanty blanket and dragging it over his head.

  20. You do think up such perfectly beautiful things, Polly," cried David, huddling up close to her, and lifting his flushed cheeks.

  21. And he nodded across at Hannah, huddling himself together meanwhile in a paroxysm of glee and mischief.

  22. She had a starved-looking cat on her lap, which she was huddling against her breast.

  23. But at last he had dragged her up the hill, through the fields close to the house, where the lambs were huddling in the nipping dawn beside their mothers, and into the farmyard.

  24. Breakfast was hardly ended, before river, and convex field, and huddling red tiles of the town, lay under a blurred, quivering distortion.

  25. Round him, as round a conjurer, scores of little shadowy things moved in a huddling dance, fitfully hopping like sparrows over spilt grain.

  26. The Morin family--man, wife and daughter--were huddling close together.

  27. The men had taken again to congregating in the hot close bar-room, or huddling together in their buffalo coats, smoking in the outer air.

  28. Whenever he did look at him, he found him at no great distance, either huddling himself back against the wall or crouching in one of the gorgeous stalls.

  29. Their huddling attitude seemed to express a lack of confidence in their own stability.

  30. That was the world as God had made it, and as He intended it to be; it was only men who made it evil, huddling together in their small and filthy dens, so intent on their little ugly lives, their food and drink and wicked ways.

  31. The doves pecked the crumbs on the sill, huddling against her and eating from her hands.

  32. The Violinist flung himself back in the corner of the karéta, huddling himself in the furs; the windows were shut and his breath made a steam against the panes.

  33. Two statements were rather in contradiction with our general results: Beveridge's statement of promiscuous huddling and Collins' vague information.

  34. He speaks of "the promiscuous manner they have of huddling together in their loondthals.

  35. And in the darkness of twilight he joined them, huddling close together in the dense green thickets.

  36. It is hard for a crow to live alone, for with the colony, where there are sometimes hundreds of crows, they manage to keep warm by huddling closely together for warmth, and so do not freeze to death.

  37. By huddling together on the floor against the windward side we got some protection.

  38. I was out of bed, and huddling on my clothes, and thrusting my feet into my boots, like one possessed.

  39. I answered: “Tell them that I am huddling my clothes on, and will come out to them in my shirt.

  40. The old man wanting to be first upon the staircase, tumbled down some steps, and all the rest of them came huddling after him.

  41. Then he pressed it convulsively to his lips, and, sinking his head, buried his face in the child's garments on the table, huddling them up against his silvery hairs with both arms.

  42. Zeno hastened away, and Tiberius, huddling against the lamp, devoured the contents of the secret missive with eyes starting from his head, and mouth agape in astonishment.

  43. And those who could not get away were shuddering at the blinds drawn down, and huddling away from the mutes at the doors, and turning pale at the funeral bells.


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