ABIDING in a Sentence

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Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABIDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
abiding
 a.  lasting for a long time; enduring; permanent
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  It proved to be the abiding place of David Gamut.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
3  Their local attachments are very abiding.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
5  To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
6  Their belief in the Magic was an abiding thing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  But her abiding reliance was on Mr. Dick.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
8  We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
9  Too mighty, lords of heaven, did you deem the brood of Rome, had this your gift been abiding.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
10  But she could not trust herself to say it carelessly; could not abide his certain questioning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  Do thou abide below here, where they shall serve thee, as if thou wert the captain.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
12  I never abide in any place, sleeping or waking, without an example of this gifted work.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
13  Even so," said David, firmly; "I will abide in the place of the Delaware.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
14  But presently he could see that many of the men in gray did not intend to abide the blow.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
15  The same alarming distinction was conferred on Rebecca, in spite of her father's entreaties, who offered even money, in this extremity of distress, that she might be permitted to abide with him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  It's this which many see as the abiding legacy of Watergate.
2  This leaves no doubt as to the universal and abiding significance of the Kingdom concept.
3  "Oh, don't bother ME," said the Duchess; "I could not abide figures!"
4  For that fate you have already made your choice, and must abide by it.
5  Please feel assured that we will abide by our promise.