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Example sentences for "reposing"

Lexicographically close words:
repose; reposed; reposeful; reposes; reposeth; reposited; reposition; repositories; repository; reposo
  1. I will become a serpent, reposing on the bosom of my poor Laura, poisoning her love and lacerating her heart.

  2. His gun was all the time safely reposing between the canvas folds of a cot-bed which leaned folded up together against the wall, in the very room where they had ransacked the closets.

  3. A feather-bed was spread upon the floor, the head raised by means of a turned-down chair, and here I was reposing comfortably when the brother arrived.

  4. The section in Figure 231 will show the manner in which the white chalk extends from England into France, covered by the tertiary strata described in former chapters, and reposing on lower cretaceous beds.

  5. When it is reposing at its ease, it continually moves its jaws about as if eating something, an action which may readily be mistaken for true rumination.

  6. For domestic decoration we should, as far as possible, adhere to reposing forms and colours.

  7. A rule to be respected is that decoration should be reposing instead of exciting.

  8. He had halted one day in a valley called Wadaramla, and was reposing with his family in his tent, while his people and the prisoners made a repast in the open air.

  9. While his troops were reposing from their fatigues, the king made some further ravages, and reduced several small towns to obedience.

  10. While reposing himself after his victories, the Bishop Oppas was brought in chains before him, and the Christian troops called loudly for the death of that traitor and apostate.

  11. The troubles of the country were now settled by the overthrow of the viceroy, and the nation was reposing in quiet under the rule of Pizarro.

  12. Reposing in his false security, Almagro was now fully awakened to the consciousness of the error he had committed; and the warning voice of his lieutenant may have risen to his recollection.

  13. While this was taking place at one end of the exercising ground, a horseman rode up to the front of the reposing soldiers.

  14. The victor chief Trembled, he knew not why; the trumpet ceased Its clangor, and the crimson streamer waved No more in folds insulting to the Lord Of the reposing world.

  15. Close at the head of the bed stood an old man, with his face buried in his hands; the latter reposing against the wainscoting of the room.

  16. Scarcely had she done so, however, when she beheld me immediately, though far beneath her, with my back reposing against the rock, and my eyes apparently fixed on hers.

  17. It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to the Bodleian were reposing here as in some dormitory or middle state.

  18. When again it opened into view its wide waveless surface lay before them, reposing in all the sublimity of loneliness and silence.

  19. Ye have seen Steenie, belike," said the dame, lifting up one hand from her knee, which had been reposing there as a protection from the fervid advances of a glowing fire before which she sat.

  20. She had most probably been reposing on the coffin as a place of rest, and been jolted a step beyond it when the two fell out.

  21. He pointed to a bundle pinned up honourably in a silken wrapper, reposing on the floor hard by the silver-handled cane.

  22. When at length we came in sight of it, we saw a crowd of men reposing on the ground before its awning.

  23. Before he fell asleep he looked at Rip reposing happily at the foot of the bed, and had a moment of shooting wonder that the little dog was so completely comfortable with him.

  24. Czar was very hot and tired, so I did not ride on, as I had intended, but unsaddled and boiled coffee, while the horse was reposing in the shady grass.

  25. We will approach them through the valley of the Saco River, and at the distance of thirty miles they will be seen looming up in the horizon, with the clouds reposing beneath their naked heads.

  26. Around the Papandayang, one of the loftiest mountains in Java, no less than forty villages were reposing in peace.

  27. As I go back in spirit and recall that noble sea, reposing among the snow-peaks six thousand feet above the ocean, the conviction comes strong upon me again that Como would only seem a bedizened little courtier in that august presence.

  28. The old father, reposing under a stone close by, dated 1686, might have told us if he could have risen.

  29. We are soon left behind, and do not see our guide again until six hours later, when we find him reposing by the side of a running stream.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reposing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    asleep; breathless; calm; cloistered; cool; couchant; crawling; dead; deceased; defunct; demised; departed; dwindling; fallen; finished; flat; gone; groveling; halcyon; hushed; impassive; inanimate; isolated; late; lifeless; lolling; lounging; lying; martyred; moldering; pacific; peaceable; peaceful; placid; prone; prostrate; quiescent; quiet; reclining; recumbent; released; reposeful; reposing; restful; sainted; secluded; sequestered; sheltered; sleeping; smooth; sprawling; spread; still; stillborn; stolid; subsiding; supine; tranquil; undisturbed; unmoved; unperturbed; unruffled; untroubled; waning