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Example sentences for "signing"

Lexicographically close words:
signifieng; signifies; signifieth; signify; signifying; signis; signo; signoras; signorina; signorino
  1. One, signing himself Angus Dallas of Toronto, wrote several pamphlets attacking the school system.

  2. Immediately after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, United Empire Loyalists began to make homes in Upper Canada.

  3. Jeph, somewhat displeased that his brother manifested a certain inattention to his exhortation by signing to Patience to supply her wants.

  4. Blane, signing to Stead to hold his peace.

  5. Hoblit had to admit the signing of the receipt, but told Lincoln he "supposed the cuss had lost it.

  6. After his return to Canada, he was so desirous of being unknown and unhonored that he ceased signing his name, and even his letters which he addressed to his superior after his return to Canada are without signatures.

  7. Cavour, after signing the treaty that ceded Nice and Savoy to France, approached M.

  8. In signing or vetoing bills passed by Congress the president shares in legislation, and is virtually a third house.

  9. They never wearied of telling about that event, and of the grand pow-wow which followed the signing of the treaty.

  10. I found out afterwards that Pete had a great deal to do with the signing of that treaty.

  11. They were still busy, when a body of men gliding out from among the huts by twos and by threes, assembled at the entrance, one of their number signing to its tenants to follow.

  12. Masheesh rode on, and in a few moments, a low guttural cry was heard, and the Matabele was seen, halting under a tree, and signing with his spear for the rest to come on.

  13. Pausing to rest, the deep stillness of the African plain seemed oppressive, when suddenly Luji put his black hand on the Captain's shoulder, wildly signing to him to listen, his great mouth working convulsively.

  14. His veto may be over-ridden by a two-thirds vote in each chamber, and permitting ten days to pass without signing an act is considered as acquiescence and it is promulgated by congress.

  15. In 1566 he was one of the founders of the confederacy of nobles who bound themselves to maintain the rights and liberties of the country by signing a document known as "the Compromise.

  16. That verbal agreement, which Mr. Cowles mentions, of signing it letter by letter, does not in law affect a written agreement.

  17. Until the moment Ellen Meriwether began the signing of her name, I swear I had forgotten that ever in the world was another by name of Grace Sheraton!

  18. Far rather had I been beneath the sod that moment; for I knew, since I loved Ellen Meriwether, she must not complete the signing of her name upon the scroll of our covenant!

  19. You knew you were signing up for more than acting when you said, 'Count me in the company.

  20. Signing Martin to stop, he called, "Come hither, sweetling.

  21. I see none," replied the prince dauphin, "if we can by any means ensure that the signing of the contract is put off to the last moment.

  22. The first was the actual transfer of the chateau and property of Les Bois to myself, which was executed that night in the presence of a notary, both the Duke of Montpensier and the prince signing the act.

  23. However that may be, the day for signing the contract was named as yesterday, and the hour noon.

  24. On payment of the fee of ten dollars, and signing the regular contract," said the Idiot.

  25. The remarkable merit of this picture and the wilful unreasonableness of painters in not signing their works, were curiously shown at the exhibition of “Pictures by the Old Masters,” held at Burlington House, in January of 1878.

  26. Most important, however, was the signing of a basic treaty that established and regulated relations between West and East Germany, a condition set by Bulgaria before diplomatic relations could be resumed with West Germany.

  27. Exchanges of high-level visits and the signing of various economic agreements had stabilized Bulgarian-Turkish relations by the early 1970s.

  28. This," he said, "is the very furniture that was in the room at the time of the signing of the Declaration.

  29. The five years after the signing of the Treaty of Peace in 1783 were very critical years," he said.

  30. The partisan press pictured President John Adams signing the commissions of these new judgeships to the very stroke of twelve on the night of March 3, and then entering his coach and driving in haste from the city.

  31. In a letter written soon after the signing of the Louisiana Treaty, Robert Livingston relates a suggestive conversation which he had with Talleyrand.

  32. After signing his name to the treaty, Livingston rose and shook hands with Monroe and Marbois.

  33. When this had been done, they poured some of the water of the bath over his shoulders, signing the left shoulder with the Cross.

  34. And that upon her signing that book, the devil told her that he was her god.

  35. In deprecation of this tribe, the peasant is careful not to bathe without a cross round the neck, nor to ford a stream on horseback without signing a cross on the water with a scythe or knife.

  36. It is conceivable that what Shelley said about his mother's endeavour to lure him into signing a parchment-deed, was his vague and inexact recollection of some incident of his last visit to the old home.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "signing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.