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Examining in sentence

326 examples of Examining in a sentence

The couple sat down opposite her, attentively but stealthily examining her dress.
While examining it, he thought of himself, of his vagabond existence these eight days he had been seeking work.
And their voices again rose; they had just stopped once more, and were examining the timbering in the gallery, which the pikemen were obliged to look after for a length of ten metres behind the cutting.
And she went off, violently dragging Lénore and Henri who were occupied in picking up nut-shells from the gutter and examining them.
"Therefore," I wrote, "after examining these different hypotheses one by one, we are forced, every other supposition having been refuted, to accept the existence of an extremely powerful marine animal.
Captain Nemo must have spent millions in acquiring these different specimens, and I was wondering what financial resources he tapped to satisfy his collector's fancies, when these words interrupted me:"You're examining my shells, professor?
They were examining the ship's circumstances, exchanging a few words in their incomprehensible dialect.
"Considering the amount of gin I've had these past two months, you've got nothing to complain about!"Meanwhile I was examining this unusual bird.
One of these chieftains came fairly close to the Nautilus, examining it with care.
The chief officer kept lifting his spyglass and stubbornly examining the horizon, walking up and down, stamping his foot, in his nervous agitation a sharp contrast to his superior.
But while observing these different specimens of marine fauna, I didn't stop examining the long plains of Atlantis.
Before more carefully examining the interior features of this enormous cavern, and before deciding if it was the work of nature or humankind, I went over to Captain Nemo.
After examining this community of walruses, I decided to return in my tracks.
"Didn't it measure about six meters?" said Conseil, who was stationed at the window and examining anew the crevices in the cliff.
Meanwhile I was carefully examining these unleashed breakers.
Carefully examining this mass, I could identify the swollen outlines of a ship shorn of its masts, which must have sunk bow first.
Between the two lines the committee-men were walking with heavy steps, examining each animal, then consulting one another in a low voice.
They saw her walking up and down, examining the napkin-rings, the candlesticks, the banister rails against the walls, while Binet stroked his beard with satisfaction.
M. de Renal's self-esteem was troubled; so far from having any thought of examining the tutor, he was engaged in ransacking his memory for a few words of Latin; at last, he managed to quote a line of Horace.
To obey Mathilde, whose love of giving orders he knew, Julien had made an unnecessary journey of forty leagues: he was at Villequier, examining the accounts of the agents; this generosity on the part of the Marquis was the occasion of his return.
The supervisor didn't shake hands, he thought, and looked at the woman differently from before, examining her.
K. was satisfied to hear nothing but his own quiet words in this room full of strangers, and he even dared casually to pick up the examining judge's notebook and, touching it only with the tips of his fingers as if it were something revolting, lifted it in the air, holding it just by one of the middle pages so that the others on each side of it, closely written, blotted and yellowing, flapped down.
"Those are the official notes of the examining judge," he said, and let the notebook fall down onto the desk.
All of them belonged to the same group, even though they seemed to be divided to the right and the left of him, and when he suddenly turned round he saw the same badge on the collar of the examining judge who calmly looked down at him with his hands in his lap.
However, the examining judge seems to have moved even more quickly than K., as he was waiting for him at the doorway.
Those books belong to the examining judge."
"I'd better go away again, then," said K."Should I give a message to the examining judge?" asked the woman.
"It's really not my job to make things better here, as you put it," he said, "and if you said that to the examining judge he would laugh at you or punish you for it.
Perhaps one favour you could do me would be to tell the examining judge, or anyone else who likes to spread important news, that I will never be induced to pay any sort of bribe through any stratagem of theirs - and I'm sure they have many stratagems at their disposal.
You say these officials are lazy, but they're certainly not all lazy, especially this examining judge, he writes ever such a lot.
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