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Example sentences for "meeting"

Lexicographically close words:
meeter; meetes; meetest; meeteth; meetin; meetinge; meetinghouse; meetings; meetly; meetness
  1. Tilly, it is true, has received a strong reinforcement; but this shall not prevent me from meeting him with confidence, as soon as I have covered my rear.

  2. The Swedish troops, meeting with no resistance, quickly overran this duchy, and made themselves masters of all its strong places, except Rensburg and Gluckstadt.

  3. Preparatory to taking the last decisive step, he, in January 1634, called a meeting of all the commanders of the army at Pilsen, whither he had marched after his retreat from Bavaria.

  4. Thus far had Gustavus advanced from victory to victory, without meeting with an enemy able to cope with him.

  5. The Diet broke up without coming to a decision; and the Estates, exasperated against the Emperor, arranged a general meeting at Prague, upon their own authority, to right themselves.

  6. Among others, it was a strange thing that Jocelyn felt no surprise at meeting the name of Millicent Chyne on the lips of another man.

  7. And he follows 'im, and we all shake hands just as if we was meeting in the Row, except that most of our hands was a bit grimy and sticky-like with blood and grease off'n the cartridges.

  8. It shows, at all events, that Thomas Atkins and Jack are alike unafraid of meeting their Maker.

  9. I had the pleasure of meeting Miss Gordon.

  10. Quick as thought she had seen the only loophole--the only possible way of meeting this terrible accusation.

  11. Perhaps," he said, "I may have the pleasure of meeting you again?

  12. He did not seem to approve of their meeting without his intervention.

  13. Such was the meeting of Victor Durnovo and Jack Meredith.

  14. It was evident that the chance meeting was as undesired by him as it was surprising to her.

  15. It was merely the question of meeting a man as if by accident, and then afterwards making that man do certain things required of him.

  16. In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghenies.

  17. The Forest is probably the most accessible place on the face of the earth, but it is so rarely visited that one may go half a lifetime without meeting a person who has been there.

  18. Rosalind and I were hourly meeting those whose thoughts had fed the world for generations, and whose names were on all lips, but they never spoke of the books they had written, the pictures they had painted, the music they had composed.

  19. Gardiner boldly denounced the visitation as illegal and unwarrantable, but the council instead of meeting his arguments and remonstrances ordered his arrest (September 1547).

  20. To bring matters to a crisis it was arranged by Walsh and Ormond that a meeting of the bishops, vicars, and heads of religious orders should be held in Dublin (June 1666).

  21. Even still his efforts were far from being successful, and the meeting was dissolved by Ormond.

  22. She advanced on Edinburgh without meeting any resistance, while the murderers of Riccio were obliged to make their escape into England.

  23. Shortly before the meeting of Parliament in March (1604) James determined to show the country that his attitude towards Catholicism was in no wise different from that of his predecessor.

  24. He summoned a meeting of the bishops in Waterford (Aug.

  25. Several of the cities and leading men refused, however, to take any part in a movement controlled by Ormond, and as a last desperate resort, at the meeting of the bishops held at Jamestown (12 Aug.

  26. At the meeting of Convocation (1537) the battle was waged between the Catholic-minded bishops let by Tunstall of Durham and the Lutheran party let by Cranmer.

  27. A meeting of the bishops and vicars of the Northern province was held at Kells (May 1642) under the presidency of Dr.

  28. Mid-afternoon came and passed, and still the meeting inside the ship went on.

  29. However, it appeared that the visitor was summoning the chiefs of the assembled tribes to a meeting within the spaceship.

  30. At the first meeting Governor Dodge spoke to the Chippewas of the purpose of the council.

  31. On one occasion a spring thaw overtook the carrier from Prairie du Chien, who had proceeded beyond the meeting place because the messenger from the north was late.

  32. A system was arranged whereby a courier from Fort Snelling and one from Prairie du Chien set out at about the same time, meeting at Wabasha's village where the packs were exchanged and each returned to his own post.

  33. Faustram to Several of the Gentlemen of the Post--but not meeting with a corresponding Sentiment--the poor fellow must be informed of my bad success in his behalf".

  34. The fort was a convenient meeting place, it is argued, whither both parties resorted only to become involved in altercations and disputes which resulted in a flaring-up of old flames.

  35. It could not be said that Wilhelmine was a timid woman, yet hers was one of those natures which, though ready to attempt many things, shrink unaccountably at any touch of dreariness, and almost dread meeting strangers.

  36. It is hard she should spoil our Christmas Eve; but it is better than meeting her for the first time as Landhofmeisterin with all her friends to stare at me.

  37. She had been feverishly excited during the day at the prospect of meeting her cousin King Friedrich Wilhelm, but, as usual, her passing brighter mood left her the more depressed.

  38. In fact, the Erbprincessin had consented to greet her cousin in private, only in order to prevent the Landhofmeisterin from meeting the mistress-hating monarch.

  39. The marriage festivities had not taken place at Stuttgart, in order to avoid the obvious complications of the meeting of the bridegroom's parents.

  40. The sentry at her door saluted her, but she gained her own ante-hall without meeting any of her waiting men, even Maria was gaping in the crowd in the courtyard probably.

  41. The Duke was getting beyond himself; each moment he feared Wilhelmine would appear, and Forstner was not a person he desired as witness either to his meeting with his beloved, or to her advent from the lowest part of the town.

  42. Footnote 32: Paper read before the first meeting of the American Guild of St. Luke.

  43. I am glad you are to have the pleasure of meeting your own people abroad, and thus carrying your home with you: give my kindest love to them all whenever you see them.

  44. I am glad your meeting with the Combes was so pleasant.

  45. Dear Harriet, if you will come to Switzerland this summer, nothing but some insuperable impediment shall prevent my meeting you there.

  46. Unless you, my dear friend, deprecate our meeting to part again, I have no intention whatever of leaving England without seeing you once more.

  47. I have had a letter from Cecilia Combe within the last two days, anticipating meeting us on the Rhine, either at Godesberg, where she now is, or at Bonn, where she expects to pass some time soon.

  48. I was surprized at meeting among our fellow-prisoners a number of Dutch officers.

  49. As the times grew alarming, the Bishop, perhaps, thought it politic to appear at the club, and the Representative meeting him there one evening, began to interrogate him very rudely with regard to his opinion of the marriage of priests.

  50. Like Falstaff's troops, every one has some good cause of exemption; and if you were to attend a meeting where this affair is discussed, you would conclude the French to be more physically miserable than any people on the glove.

  51. Manos were represented by 3 bifacial types, the grinding surfaces of 2 being parallel, and 1 meeting at an angle to effect a wedge-shaped cross section.

  52. The coincidence of Ben meeting his old friends on the island was after all not so remarkable as it seemed.

  53. Meeting him a third time like this could hardly be a coincidence," mused Frank.

  54. Well, let us hold a meeting in your palace," said the prince, "and then we can decide what is best to be done.

  55. Nymphs there were in Lurla, as well, and crooked knooks, it was said; yet for many years past no person could boast the favor of meeting any one of the fairy creatures face to face.

  56. Her meeting with Colonel Desmond seemed like seeing an inhabitant of another world, who could dive into thoughts, and was acquainted with occurrences unknown to those she was surrounded by.

  57. Captain Greville, I don't think I have ever had the pleasure of meeting you before.

  58. My only chance of meeting with Frank Lovell was out hunting.

  59. I shuddered at the idea of meeting the Baronet at such an hour, and in so excited a state.

  60. Then comes Ascot, for which meeting they leave the metropolis, and enjoy some quiet retreat in the neighbourhood of Windsor, taking with them many potables and what they call a "dog cook.

  61. So the two girls were left to themselves to exchange confidences and talk over their fall meeting at Glenwood when school should begin again.

  62. In the first meeting between them on the 17th of April to leeward of Martinique, Guichen escaped disaster only through the clumsy manner in which Sir George's orders were executed by his captains.

  63. In 1866 he presided over the British Association at its Nottingham meeting and delivered an address on the continuity of natural phenomena.

  64. Then, when all had come to a halt by the road-side, he told the particulars of his meeting with Will Carey.

  65. A meeting was held, and the upshot of the conference was that a race between the three sloops was arranged for the following Saturday, weather permitting.

  66. This meeting is called for the purpose of discussing ways and means of squaring accounts with the Pornell Academy students," said Pepper, who presided.

  67. Just as the meeting was breaking up a noise was heard in one of the lockers of the gymnasium.

  68. Ritter and his cronies tried to "pump him," but the sneak put them off by stating the meeting was held to consider baseball matters for the coming season.

  69. That night a special meeting was called in the dormitory occupied by Jack, Pepper and others.

  70. Is this a trick to get out of meeting me?

  71. Say, did I hear something about your meeting two masked men around here?

  72. She knew that Harbinger would be there, and with the thought of meeting that other at 'five o'clock,' had a cynical pleasure in thus encountering him.

  73. And then of her meeting with Miltoun; the unexpected delight of that companionship; the frank enjoyment of the first four months.

  74. And where have you been meeting this--er--anonymous creature?

  75. Her last little interview with Courtier stood between her and a fresh meeting with Harbinger, whom at the Valleys House gathering she had not suffered to be alone with her.

  76. She parried with cool ingenuity each attempt made by Lady Valleys to draw her into conversation on the subject of that meeting at Gustard's, nor would she talk of her brother; in every other way she was her usual self.

  77. Afraid of meeting me, since she committed that piece of folly over Eustace.

  78. He walked slowly towards the Temple, along the riverside, where the lamps were paling into nothingness before that daily celebration of Divinity, the meeting of dark and light.

  79. She wanted to run, to fly to this meeting that should remove from him the odious feelings he must have, that she, Barbara Caradoc, was a vulgar enchantress, a common traitress and coquette!

  80. It was the inaugural meeting of the Society for the Promotion of the Birth Rate, over which she had promised to preside.

  81. Erasmus never again visited England, and if they did meet during those long years, it was a chance meeting only, on some occasion when More was sent on an embassy, and their intercourse could not be intimate.

  82. The only way of meeting all these difficulties and premises seems to be by taking a smaller stadium than the Olympic.

  83. Away with such fine-spun subtilties--it is the prospect of meeting your Maker face to face that makes you quail.

  84. The waves, thus broke upon the artificial beach, and running up its smooth surface without meeting the slightest resistance, expended, in a great measure, their strength ere reaching the foot of the wall.

  85. Upon the confirmation of the worst news, this book was examined and found to contain a considerable portion of the notes which her father made during his travels previous to the time of Mr. Stanley's meeting him.

  86. The clapping of hands on meeting is something excessive, and then the string of salutations that accompany it would please the most fastidious Frenchman.

  87. The Arabs are all busy reading their Koran, or Kurán, and in praying for direction; to-morrow they will call a meeting to deliberate as to what steps they will take in the Nsama affair.

  88. I dreamed of meeting Him in heaven, of seeing Him come robed in white with a palm in His hand, and then in a little darkness and dimness I felt Him take me to His breast.

  89. Once or twice a week Hall dined at the Cock for the purpose of meeting his friends, whom he invited after dinner to his rooms to smoke and drink till midnight.

  90. Now at his father's house, or in one of the houses his father frequented, he might meet Sir Arthur; indeed, a meeting could easily be arranged.

  91. Paper Buildings; and not long after he had the pleasure of meeting Sir Arthur at dinner.

  92. In increasing restlessness he conned all the narrow chances of meeting her, of speaking to her alone.

  93. The Grand Place itself was the forum and meeting place of the soldier citizens, who were called to arms by the chimes in the Belfry.

  94. Circumstances must guide me," said I; and meeting Pelet's false glance and insinuating smile, I thanked heaven that I had last night opened my window and read by the light of a full moon the true meaning of that guileful countenance.


  95. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meeting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accompanying; agglomeration; agglutination; aggregate; aggregation; agreeing; amassed; appointment; approach; approaching; articulation; assembled; assembly; assignation; associated; asymptote; audience; ball; bargaining; binding; bond; bout; brawl; brunt; bump; cannon; carom; caucus; centripetal; church; clash; coincident; collected; collective; collision; colloquium; combination; combined; combining; commission; committee; communication; competition; concentration; concerted; conclave; concomitant; concordant; concourse; concurrence; concurrent; concussion; confab; conference; conflict; confluence; confrontation; congeries; conglomerate; conglomeration; conjoint; conjugation; conjunction; connecting; connection; consultation; contest; contingent; convention; convocation; cooperative; coordinate; council; coupling; crash; crossing; crunch; dance; date; devotions; dialogue; diet; discussion; duty; encounter; engagement; evensong; festivity; fete; fight; fixture; focal; focus; forum; funnel; game; games; gathered; gathering; glancing; grazing; gymkhana; harmonious; hearing; housewarming; hub; huddle; impact; intercommunication; intercourse; interview; joined; joining; joint; jointure; joust; junction; knotted; leagued; levee; liaison; linkage; liturgy; marriage; match; matching; matins; meet; meeting; merger; merging; muster; negotiation; novena; office; onslaught; packaged; pairing; palaver; panel; parasitic; parley; party; percussion; plenum; powwow; prayer; prime; quorum; radial; radiating; radius; rally; reception; rencontre; rendezvous; revival; rubbing; saprophytic; seance; service; session; shock; sitting; smash; smashing; soiree; splice; spoke; stacked; summit; symbiosis; symbiotic; symposium; synchronous; synergistic; synod; talk; tangent; tangential; test; tie; tilt; touching; tournament; tourney; trial; turnout; unification; union; united; uniting; vesper; vigil


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    meeting held; meeting with; meetings were