BEARING in a Sentence

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Though her benign smile and gentle bearing made Miss Marple seem a sweet little old lady, in reality she was a tough-minded lady.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEARING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bearing
 n.  carrying another part; patient endurance; suffering without complaint; act of producing or giving birth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I still retain in my scrap-book numerous clippings and extracts bearing upon the case.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  But at this moment the four pigeons, who had been sent out on the day before, returned, one of them bearing a scrap of paper from Pilkington.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Recovering their horses however, and wheeling them round, the whole three pursued their united purpose of bearing to the earth the Disinherited Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  "It is impossible that Allan-a-Dale can have thus treated a man of your reverend bearing," replied the Captain.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  The door of the chamber was unlocked, and Conrade and the Preceptor Malvoisin entered, attended by four warders clothed in black, and bearing halberds.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  The Black Knight thanked his deliverers with a dignity they had not observed in his former bearing, which hitherto had seemed rather that of a blunt bold soldier, than of a person of exalted rank.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  On his right arm was a silver plate, which, instead of bearing, as usual, the cognizance or badge of the baron to whose family he belonged, had barely the word SHERWOOD engraved upon it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  No, no, he obviously wasn't an Englishman: the wrong sort of flattish, pale face and bearing; and the wrong sort of grievance.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  She went downstairs calmly, with her old demure bearing, at dinner-time.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  To this spot, the man bearing the appearance of a countryman, hastened unobserved; and after a moment's survey of the place, he began to descend.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
12  He wore a glazed hat, an ancient boat-cloak, and shoes; his brass buttons bearing an anchor upon their face.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
13  With her dropping out of sight on the right side, a newcomer, bearing a burden, protruded into the sky on the left side, ascended the tumulus, and deposited the burden on the top.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
14  Within was a paddock in an uncultivated state, though bearing evidence of having once been tilled; but the heath and fern had insidiously crept in, and were reasserting their old supremacy.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
15  Thomasin came out of the tree, shook from her hair and dress the loose berries which had fallen thereon, and went down the hill with her aunt, each woman bearing half the gathered boughs.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
Example Sentence: (125 in 9 pages)
16  The journal rubs against the bearing surface.
17  The U.S. Mint is set to unveil a new $1 coin bearing the image of President Abraham Lincoln.
18  Increasingly women are bearing the brunt of the epidemic, a pattern Mr. Annan says does terrify.
19  Clearly, the middle class is bearing the burden of this economy, one in turmoil from the housing and financial crises.
20  Though her benign smile and gentle bearing made Miss Marple seem a sweet little old lady, in reality she was a tough-minded lady.
21  When you excise the dead and dying limbs of a tree, you not only improve its appearance but also enhance its chances of bearing fruit.
22  The tall girls went out and returned presently, each bearing a tray, and a pitcher of water and mug in the middle of each tray.
23  The tall girl went out and returned presently, bearing a tray, and a pitcher of water and mug in the middle of it.
24  Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune.
25  She was afraid she wouldn't be able to bear the pain.
26  The bear was a fully grown adult.
27  The pain was almost more than he could bear.
28  There is a limit to the amount of pain we can bear.
29  We saw a baby polar bear at the zoo.
30  The hunter had to feign death when he suddenly found out that a bear was coming toward him.