RECEIVING in a Sentence

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You have an understanding which will prevent you from receiving things only in part, and judging partially by the event.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECEIVING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
Receiving
 v.  accept as true or valid
 v.  receive as a retribution or punishment
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital at Willingdon, in spite of receiving every attention a horse could have.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
2  They all consulted together, and looked anxiously at the surgeon, as he asked some questions, and shook his head on receiving the replies.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
3  Probably the same motives which induced Cedric to open his hall to this son of a rejected people, would have made him insist on his attendants receiving Isaac with more courtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  On the very verge of the thicket two men spoke to his conductors, and receiving an answer in a whisper, withdrew into the wood, and suffered them to pass unmolested.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Oswald, on receiving this intelligence, resolved to return to his master for farther instructions, carrying along with him Gurth, whom he considered in some sort as a deserter from the service of Cedric.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  But his petty vanity was sufficiently gratified by receiving this homage at the hands of his immediate attendants, and of the Saxons who approached him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  She looked almost aghast under the new idea she was receiving.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  In every meeting there was a hope of receiving farther confirmation of Miss Crawford's attachment; but the whirl of a ballroom, perhaps, was not particularly favourable to the excitement or expression of serious feelings.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that Mr. Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  You have an understanding which will prevent you from receiving things only in part, and judging partially by the event.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  On receiving it, she could instantly decide on its containing little writing, and was persuaded of its having the air of a letter of haste and business.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
12  Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
13  An answer so different from the one he had expected to elicit, and was in the habit of receiving, staggered Mr. Bumble not a little.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Mrs. Bumble, whose patience brooked no delay, caught up a bowl of soap-suds, and motioning him towards the door, ordered him instantly to depart, on pain of receiving the contents upon his portly person.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  A child receives its early education at home.
17  The planet Jupiter radiates twice as much heat from inside as it receives from the Sun.
18  Each individual receives two genes, one inherited from each parent.
19  The price the meat is sold for bears no relation to the price the farmer receives.
20  Hence the amount of Business Rate each local authority receives will bear no relation to the amount actually collected in each area.
21  Every American boy and girl receives the world's best elementary and middle school education.
22  I've received a gift from him, but I'm not going to accept it.
23  It was delightful news for me to learn that you have received a Doctor's Degree from Chicago University.
24  We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
25  Although the plan received unanimous approval, this does not mean that it represents the lowest common denominator.
26  The TV station has received a barrage of complaints about the amount of violence in the series.
27  We received a negative answer to our request.
28  Few candidates had received any training in management.
29  She received a summons to appear in court the following week.
30  She had received a summons to appear in court.