Leaning
in sentence
354 examples of Leaning in a sentence
He noticed suddenly that Madame de Renal was
leaning
upon his arm in a marked manner; this action horrified him, he repulsed her violently, freeing his arm from hers.
His mistress,
leaning
upon his shoulder, gazed at him; he himself gazed at those ornaments and fripperies which on a wedding day are displayed among the presents.
Madame de Renal, wild with joy, smothered her children in kisses, which she could hardly do without
leaning
slightly upon Julien.
Mademoiselle de La Mole,
leaning
forward with the keenest interest, was so close to him that her beautiful hair almost brushed his shoulder.
Julien had fastened the cord to the highest rung of the ladder, he now let it down gently,
leaning
far out over the balcony so as to see that it did not touch the windows.
It was fast shut; he nearly fell to the ground, and stood for a long time
leaning
against the oak; then, with a tottering step, he went to look at the gardener's ladder.
'Have you seen the ladies de La Mole,' she said to him, 'they are in the third tier.'Instantly Julien bent forward into the house,
leaning
somewhat rudely upon the ledge of the box: he saw Mathilde; her eyes were bright with tears.
STERNEHe heard a great din in the corridor; it was not the hour for visiting his cell; the osprey flew away screaming, the door opened, and the venerable cure Chelan, trembling all over and
leaning
upon his cane, flung himself into Julien's arms.
The girl noticed it straight away, and to make the air fresher for K., she took a window pole that was
leaning
against the wall and pushed open a small hatch directly above K.'s head that led to the outside.
But that was not enough to persuade K.'s uncle, he had visibly taken against his friend's carer and, even though he did not contradict the invalid, he persecuted her with his scowl as she went over to the bed, put the candle on the bedside table and,
leaning
over the bed, made a fuss of him by tidying the pillows.
K.,
leaning
against the bedpost, was totally ignored by the office director, perhaps deliberately, and served the old man only as audience.
"How's that?" asked the painter patiently,
leaning
back with a smile.
From then on, she bothered him by
leaning
forward over the back of the chair or, albeit very tenderly and carefully, she would run her hands through his hair and over his cheeks.
K. had been friendly and willing to discuss his own case with someone like this!"I won't disturb you any more," said K.,
leaning
back in his chair.
K. began to anticipate many difficulties, he gave up trying to understand what the Italian said - with the director there, who could understand him so easily, it would have been pointless effort - and for the time being did no more than scowl at the Italian as he relaxed sitting deep but comfortable in the armchair, as he frequently pulled at his short, sharply tailored jacket and at one time lifted his arms in the air and moved his hands freely to try and depict something that K. could not grasp, even though he was
leaning
forward and did not let the hands out of his sight.
He was
leaning
on his sword that he had stuck into the naked ground in front of him where only a few blades of grass grew here and there.
It was just off Southend Pier, I recollect, and he was
leaning
out through one of the port-holes in a very dangerous position.
He would use a bit of string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was
leaning
over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time.
He came to a dead stop, a yard from our step, and,
leaning
up against the railings, and selecting a straw to chew, fixed us with his eye.
I want to stop here,
leaning
up against this gritty old wall.
That was a very nice hotel, too, and it had honey-suckle on it, round at the side; but Harris did not like the look of a man who was
leaning
against the front door.
He had been sitting, without knowing it, on the very verge of a small gully, the long grass hiding it from view; and in
leaning
a little back he had shot over, pie and all.
Or he might go to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto the sill and, propped up in the chair,
leaning
on the window to stare out of it.
At a little distance were three or four of the guides,
leaning
on their muskets, and straining their eyes in the direction of the combatants, and at his elbow stood a man who, from the implements in his hand, seemed an assistant.
Frances now rose quickly from her seat, with cheeks glowing with confusion, and,
leaning
on her aunt, was about to retire, when Dunwoodie himself appeared.
"Captain Lawton!" exclaimed the surgeon, as he beheld the trooper
leaning
on the arm of his subaltern, and with difficulty crossing the threshold.
"Captain Lawton," said Birch,
leaning
in momentary exhaustion against the fence, to which they had retired from the heat, "I am again in your power, for I can neither flee, nor resist."
While
leaning
in the doorway, gazing in moody silence at the ground which had been the scene of the last night's chase, his ear caught the sound of a horse, and the next moment a dragoon of his own troop appeared dashing up the road, as if on business of the last importance.
inquired the colonel,
leaning
towards her with paternal interest.
Had an adder stung her, she could not have sprung with greater celerity than she recoiled from the object against which she was leaning, and which she for the first time noticed.
Back
Next
Related words
Against
Which
Could
There
Their
Chair
Toward
Other
Hands
About
Towards
Himself
Without
Window
Stood
Little
Table
Would
Shoulder
After