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Example sentences for "leaning forward"

  • Listen to me, madam," he said at last, leaning forward.

  • Dick again, leaning forward heavily on the table, and gazing at the colonel with eyes so full of horror that the elder man wondered whether suffering had not turned Dick's brain.

  • An officer galloped alongside of the motionless lines, and, leaning forward in his saddle, shouted to the disordered group of farmers, "Stop that drum!

  • I swung my rifle to my cheek; it flashed in the pan; the brute set his horse at a gallop, and, leaning forward, deliberately shot at the unarmed peddler.

  • Sudbury militia, leaning forward in his wet saddle to pat the dripping neck of his roan.

  • Ormiston pulled forward a chair and sat down by him, leaning forward, his hands clasped about one knee, while he gazed at the tulips scattered on the floor.

  • Leaning forward, she went on with the conversation.

  • Mrs. Flushing exclaimed, leaning forward in her eagerness to see the spot where the explorer had died.

  • I have lived all my life with people like your Aunt, Mr. Hirst," she said, leaning forward in her chair.

  • You see, this is how the matter lies," he added, leaning forward confidentially.

  • Then something in my face seemed to strike him, and, leaning forward, he placed his hands upon my shoulders and turned towards the glow of the fire.

  • It is worse than I feared," said Thomas Savine, leaning forward in his chair, with his elbows on the table, and his chin in his hands.

  • Hammer, leaning forward, his face close to the bars.

  • He turned and faced the judge, leaning forward earnestly, his face white.

  • After nightfall she went into the kitchen where she sat a dreary while before her stove, leaning forward in her unlovely, ruminating pose.

  • On the porch with its southern exposure she sat in her low, splint-bottomed rocker, leaning forward, her elbows on her knees.

  • She laughed, leaning forward, resting her elbows on her knee, and her chin in her hand, so that the shadow of her hat shielded her eyes from the light.

  • Martin Pike spoke no word, but he looked at her strangely; and she watched him with sudden keenness, leaning forward in her chair, her gaze alert but quiet, fixed on the dilating pupils of his eyes.

  • He was sitting, leaning forward, with his head bowed upon his hand, and his eyes covered.

  • Why, that's Gifford Woodhouse," John said, leaning forward to give the fire that inevitable poke with which the coming guest is welcomed.

  • He stood a moment, leaning forward, his hands clasped upon the big Bible, and his face full of trembling and passionate pleading.

  • Henderson can handle that, all right," said Wally, leaning forward in his chair.

  • Gabriel, leaning forward as he sat there beside her, and gazing keenly into her face.

  • My life hitherto has not been wasted," Elgar pursued, leaning forward with a new light on his countenance.

  • The novelist, seated upon too low a chair, leaning forward so that his knees and chin almost touched, was not in himself a very graceful object; the contrast with his neighbour made him worse than grotesque.

  • Yes, yes," said Mr. Rowlandson, leaning forward.

  • Sir Peter cut the thorns from the rose, and gave it to the baby, leaning forward in its young mother's arms.

  • Radiant Phyllis, in white silk, leaning forward eagerly to catch every word, was tremulous with excitement at the end of the play.

  • Leaning forward he knocked the ash from his cigar and brought himself confidentially nearer.

  • Antone would be leaning forward, peering with frowning eyes, trying to locate him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaning forward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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