DEMANDING in a Sentence

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In demanding equal pay for equal work, women protest the basic inequity of a system that gives greater financial rewards to men.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEMANDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
demanding
 v.  lay legal claim to
 v.  summon to court
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ellen, sensitive to the bonds of kin, be they blood or marriage, wrote back reluctantly agreeing that she must stay but demanding Wade and Prissy be sent home immediately.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Why had God invented children, she thought savagely as she turned her ankle cruelly on the dark road--useless, crying nuisances they were, always demanding care, always in the way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  Everyone asked about Melanie and Ashley, demanding the reason why they, too, had not come back to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  She wanted to run, fleeing from the encroaching prairie, demanding the security of a great city.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Carol was discovering that the one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  She felt the demand for standardized behavior coming in waves from all the citizens who sat in their sitting-rooms watching her with respectable eyes, waiting, demanding, unyielding.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Even when wearied nature seemed demanding repose he would not seek that repose in his hammock.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
8  But suddenly reined back by some counter thought, he hurried towards the helm, huskily demanding how the ship was heading.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
9  She had repulsed and refused him, yet had given him money, and he had sent threatening letters demanding more.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  But she did not mind; there appeared to be a hundred different things demanding her attention indoors.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
11  When Heyward ceased to speak, they turned their eyes, as one man, on Magua, demanding, in this expressive manner, an explanation of what had been said.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  eager spectators gathered round the count, demanding.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
13  Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
14  For it seemed to them a boon beyond any they could have ventured to hope for, or have dreamed of demanding.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LI.
15  Very soon public sentiment began making itself felt, in demanding a purifying of the ministry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
Example Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
16  In demanding equal pay for equal work, women protest the basic inequity of a system that gives greater financial rewards to men.
17  The strikers were being unreasonable in their demands, having rejected the deal two weeks ago.
18  Although unemployment rose last month, this is unlikely to dampen down wage demands.
19  There are many who feel that the players are being completely unrealistic in their demands.
20  The customer is still persisting with his demands.
21  This job demands a high degree of skill.
22  He couldn't explain his weakness in giving in to her demands.
23  He demands no financial recompense for his troubles.
24  A dynamic government is necessary to meet the demands of a changing society.
25  The hijackers threatened to kill one passenger every hour if their demands were not met.
26  The actual demands set out in the document are small beer indeed.
27  Last year's tax demands are closing on me.
28  Their demands could lead to a serious confrontation with management.
29  Activists stepped up their demands for local autonomy last month.
30  Financial institutions must maintain sufficient liquidity to meet the demands of depositors.