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Example sentences for "reflecting"

Lexicographically close words:
refit; refitted; refitting; reflect; reflected; reflection; reflections; reflective; reflectively; reflectiveness
  1. Still, some of the reflecting had confidence in Dr.

  2. These lectures are very timely, and ought to be read by every reflecting person.

  3. Poems reflecting several phases of the turmoil of religious opinion rife in mid-century England are "Christmas Eve" and "Easter Day.

  4. Therefore, if the historical attitude is taken toward Balaustion and her criticism and appreciation, it can be on the whole accepted as reflecting what would probably be the feeling of an ardent woman-follower of Euripides in his own day.

  5. But it is this element, reflecting the ideas of the age, that gives the composition a peculiar literary interest.

  6. One half is the object, whose form consists of time and space, and through these of multiplicity; but the other half is the subject, lying not in space and time, for it subsists whole and undivided in every reflecting being.

  7. Various Faculties of the Mind What perception is everyone will know better by reflecting on what he does himself when he sees, hears, feels, etc.

  8. The amalgam is rubbed vigorously with a piece of soft leather, which manipulation must be continued for a long time, until the excess of mercury is expelled and the mirrors have a fine, bright reflecting surface.

  9. The triangular box, of which the mirrors form two sides, has a top composed in part of the table top and in part of mirror sections for reflecting the back panel, or with a covering of the same color as the back panel.

  10. On the left is the reflecting screen against which the animal appeared en silhouette.

  11. But to obtain the very best effects we must illuminate the mirror with a diverging pencil of light; this pencil is made still further divergent by reflection from the mirror, because its reflecting surface is convex.

  12. The emperor issued the following decree: "The spirits of our imperial ancestors, reflecting their radiance down from heaven, illuminate and assist us.

  13. Let's go down to my office, because it is directly across the reflecting pool from this School Depository Building and from the sheriff's office and entrance where they will take him in.

  14. The footmen, highly offended at the representation of a farce reflecting on their fraternity, resolved to prevent its repetition.

  15. By way of reflecting the glories of the coronation of George II.

  16. What is the pride resulting from such sham applause, compared to the secret satisfaction which a prig enjoys in his mind in reflecting on a well-contrived and well-executed scheme?

  17. As to the poor creature who was to satisfy these passions, her whole soul was employed in reflecting on the condition of her husband and children.

  18. Olympia had been jogging along, apparently oblivious to everything but the blazing vision of sun and cloud above the lake, purpling shapes of mirage, reflecting the smooth surface of the glowing water.

  19. Yet she hardly knew how to frame the note, reflecting bitterly, as she sat twirling her pen, on the monstrous state of things that made writing to her own father almost a duplicity.

  20. Something of the unreadiness of the army, every reflecting soldier in the ranks comprehended, when he saw within the precincts of his own brigades the hap hazard conduct of the quartermaster's and staff departments.

  21. What would a universe be without any consciousness capable of reflecting it and knowing it?

  22. And what importance for this feeling have the thousand and one difficulties that arise from reflecting rationally upon the mystery of this sacrament?

  23. Yes," said she, apparently reflecting a moment.

  24. Reflecting a moment, she turned and walked hurriedly onward across Holborn, and down Chancery Lane, until she came to the offices of Solomonson and Isaacs.

  25. I am afraid I almost took a pleasure in observing the operations of the surgeon, without once reflecting on the pain suffered by the patient.

  26. I could not help reflecting how very justly this captain had got his vessel into jeopardy by first allowing a man to be seduced from his allegiance, and then placing confidence in him.

  27. I reckon this among the few good actions of my life, and own I have great pleasure in reflecting upon it.

  28. Odd differences, reflecting differences of intelligence, show themselves in the management of this diagram of the human face.

  29. We find another illustration of this doubling of the self in the autobiography of George Sand, which relates that when a child, reflecting on the impressive experience of the echo, she invented a theory of her double existence.

  30. At the first instant the water is turbid, but immediately after the flat surfaces of the plates of mica are seen all alone, reflecting a silvery light, as they descend slowly, to form a distinct micaceous lamina.

  31. The lantern is composed, of ninety immense reflecting lamps, which are capable of being raised or depressed with great ease by means of an iron windlass.

  32. Upon coolly reflecting on what they had done, and remembering the stern and ruthless nature of their sovereign, they sent deputies to implore his clemency and forgiveness.

  33. The whole was illuminated by large patent reflecting lamps, which shed a lustre almost as brilliant as the day.

  34. Reflecting on the performance afterwards, my dramatic sense revolts against the "plot.

  35. I never visit a music-hall without reflecting concerning the great future there must be before the human race.

  36. Arabella, without reflecting on this inference, went on to prove the independent sovereignty of love: which, said she, may be collected from all the words and actions of those heroes who were inspired by this passion.

  37. All pleasure is not, therefore (morally speaking) equally a good; for all pleasure does not equally bear reflecting on.

  38. Mr. Lamb has the very soul of an antiquarian, as this implies a reflecting humanity; the film of the past hovers for ever before him.

  39. The occasion of a certain man's declaration of his villanous design against the Dean, was a frivolous unproved suspicion that he had written some lines in verse reflecting upon him.

  40. Say, Stella, feel you no content, Reflecting on a life well spent?

  41. But can you derive any mental ease from reflecting on a passage which denounces indignation and wrath?

  42. I could get no sleep last night, reflecting on my condition; and early this morning I despatched a messenger to your house, with the note which you received.

  43. She felt the force of her own remarks, and when reflecting on them, at a subsequent period, she could not but yield to their influence.

  44. And when it passed away, still the whole countenance continued to beam and brighten, as if reflecting the glory on which the soul was gazing.

  45. Their imagination expands in reflecting on that magnificent scene beheld by the shepherds of Bethlehem, when his birth was announced by the angel of the Lord.

  46. The artist, if he be a charlatan, a liar, or a miscreant, purifies his other self by reflecting it in art.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reflecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    careful; circumspect; cognitive; conceptual; considerate; discreet; discriminating; enlightened; introspective; judicial; judicious; meditative; mental; musing; noetic; pensive; politic; provident; prudent; reflective; ruminant; serious; sober; speculative; thinking; thought; thoughtful; wistful