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Example sentences for "needing"

Lexicographically close words:
needeth; needful; needfull; neediest; neediness; needle; needlecraft; needled; needlelike; needlepoint
  1. All we're, needing now is a coat of paint to make a cupboard that would turn Sarah green with envy.

  2. To keep me courage up, I twits Wessner about having to tie me and needing another man to help handle me.

  3. His questions, his movements, his changes of locality showed that; and Woodhull was one of those who cannot avoid asseverance, needing it for their courage sake.

  4. If so, it must be rough and needing work in places, else why the need for so many shovels?

  5. Both the good and the bad are represented as needing such a judgment as this.

  6. My nature I find to be diseased—not well; needing cure, and not merely food and exercise.

  7. Are not we also sometimes Jews, therefore liable to Jewish errors, and needing to have them corrected?

  8. Genuine conviction, without which tolerance is a mere form devoid of substance, is impossible if the truth for me and the truth for you are isolated facts, having and needing no relation to each other.

  9. We select the most needing of them and give it to her, and the nurse child has then a chance for its life; but even then, if it lives, it is because some other child has died and made room for it.

  10. Religion and morality are uphill work, needing continual strain and attention if the motive force is to be maintained at all.

  11. Moreover, it was not a space ship in the sense of needing rockets for landing purposes.

  12. But now there seemed to be a very great deal of other similar conversation urgently needing to be gone through.

  13. Needing no riveting nor anything else--and one could do it fast!

  14. And it would continue its circling forever, needing no fuel and never descending.

  15. This so entirely expresses and concludes all that I have to say, that I feel surprise at my needing at all to write such a chapter as the present.

  16. If the interior of the berry were one solid mass of flour, needing only to be broken up to the requisite fineness, it could be done as well on the rolls.

  17. The hyphomycetae, on account of their needing an abundant supply of oxygen, give rise to but few morbid processes, and these run their course on the surface of the body, and are hence relatively of less importance.

  18. In the defence John Breckenridge stood alone, needing no help; for all knew that whatever man could do in behalf of his client would be done by him.

  19. The story stood alive in his throbbing brain, demanding a hearing; it stood there always, needing but a touch to waken it.

  20. He no longer thought of needing both hands free for the climbing of ambition's unsteady, long ladder.

  21. I came back because I thought you might be needing me, maybe.

  22. Few public men of any age or country have more fully met Aristotle's test of a statesman: "ability to see facts as they exist and to do the things needing to be done.

  23. They range all the year, needing little attention.

  24. He finds it disconcerting when he comes home in the evenings after the anxiety of his days, dog-tired and needing sympathy, to find that his wife has an attack of nerves, or a feverish desire to go out and "see something.

  25. At their very doors there is a welter of suffering, struggling humanity craving for a little help, needing helping hands, on the very edge of the abyss of misery, and slipping down unless they get rescued in the nick of time.

  26. Champagne of 1874 was a wine of this description, with all its finer vinous qualities well developed, and consequently needing age to attain not merely the roundness but the refinement of flavour pertaining to a high-class sparkling wine.

  27. We soon come upon a deep recess to the right, wherein stands a unique cumbersome screw-press, needing ten or a dozen men to work the unwieldy capstan which sets the juice flowing from the crushed grapes into the adjacent shallow trough.

  28. No less than before is the connection between conduct and consequence rooted in the constitution of things; unchangeable by State-made law, and not needing establishment by empirical generalization.

  29. Before there can be many and large calls on some for efforts on behalf of others, there must be many others in conditions needing help--in conditions of comparative misery.

  30. When the aggregate is no longer in danger, the final object of pursuit, the welfare of the units, no longer needing to be postponed, becomes the immediate object of pursuit.

  31. But, although needing relaxation and pleasure during those sad days, I did not at first take it out, as I felt that another tire would ruin me.

  32. Often before I had gazed at its walls, and considered them but brick and morter, and needing paint.

  33. At such an extensive establishment as Tattershall Castle, then at least three times its present size, there would be no small number of persons needing fire-warmth.

  34. She's right about needing all the help she gets.

  35. But the Problem itself approaches to the desperate; needing daily new invention, new audacity, with imminent destruction overhanging it throughout.

  36. A most unexpected, overwhelming Revolution in those Northern Parts;--not needing to be farther touched upon in this place.

  37. Granby continued on the old plan, plying all his diligences and artilleries; needing them all.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrested; bankrupt; bereft; callow; defective; deficient; desirous; devoid; eager; embryonic; failing; hoping; immature; inadequate; incomplete; infant; lacking; lascivious; libidinous; lustful; missing; needing; part; partial; patchy; scant; scanty; scrappy; short; shy; sketchy; underdeveloped; undeveloped; void; wanting