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Inclining in sentence

20 examples of Inclining in a sentence

Bangkok is a flat city, so we harnessed the power of gravity by inclining the whole park to collect every drop of rain.
But world events are inclining Russia to forget about its bleak demographic outlook and focus instead on its oil-charged future.
"That's alright, then," said the girl, briefly inclining her charming head.
The calves were neither before nor behind, but rather on the outer side of the limb, inclining forward, and so close to the knee as to render the free use of that joint a subject of doubt.
'You have seen Mr. Pickwick, I believe?' said Perker to Dodson, inclining his pen in the direction where that gentleman was seated.
You are inclining toward false doctrines, my young friend; you will be lost."
The preparations for our departure were not long in making, and we were soon on our way down a passage inclining two feet in seven.
On this slightly inclining shore, about a hundred fathoms from the limit of the waves, came down the foot of a huge wall of vast cliffs, which rose majestically to an enormous height.
If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men ----""Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural explanation."
By inclining his stick to the side opposite to the sun, Cyrus Harding made the shadow longer, and consequently its modifications would be more easily ascertained.
Neb and he often talked of those unaccountable things, and both, their natures inclining them to the marvelous, were not far from believing that Lincoln Island was under the dominion of some supernatural power.
She broke forth as never moon yet burst from cloud: a hand first penetrated the sable folds and waved them away; then, not a moon, but a white human form shone in the azure, inclining a glorious brow earthward.
Meanwhile, the sworn bookseller of the university, Master Andry Musnier, was inclining his ear to the furrier of the king's robes, Master Gilles Lecornu.
In one corner a bronze fawn, as if wishing to drink, was inclining its greenish head, grizzled, too, by dampness.
"But in Aulus's house," inquired Acte, "he was dear to thee, was he not?""He was," answered Lygia, inclining her head.
Vinicius pressed his lips to her hands; then they sat on the stone bench amidst wild grapevines, and inclining toward each other, were silent, looking at the twilight whose last gleams were reflected in their eyes.
And they knelt at his knees; seeing which Vinicius approached, seized the edge of Peter's mantle, and, inclining, said,--"Save me, lord.
Was it not better to read poetry in his splendid library, look at vases and statues, or hold to his breast the divine body of Eunice, twining her golden hair through his fingers, and inclining his lips to her coral mouth?
She, inclining her golden head to him, answered,--"Anthemios has come with his choristers, and asks if 'tis thy wish to hear him."
Petronius, inclining near Eunice, talked of Rome, of the latest divorces, of love affairs, of the races, of Spiculus, who had become famous recently in the arena, and of the latest books in the shops of Atractus and the Sozii.