DRAWING in a Sentence

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For DRAWING, below is one of 349 sentences:
Sitting on the beach, Mrs. Dalloway watched the tide ebb: the waters receded, drawing away from her as she sat there all alone.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRAWING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drawing
 n.  art of representing objects by lines
 v.  (present tense) make pictures; design with a pen, chalk
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At that moment she was drawing on a long glove and, doubtless, pining to be flying over the dancing-floor, where, with clicking heels, four couples had now begun to thread the mazes of the mazurka.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  In a solitary window a light is flickering where some good burgher is mending his boots, or a baker drawing a batch of dough.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  For that matter, Chichikov himself had noticed that Tientietnikov was in the habit of drawing heads of which each representation exactly resembled the rest.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
4  Yes," he said, sucking his lips, and drawing a deep breath, "in the first place, make a pasty in four divisions.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  'That's very praiseworthy self-abnegation,' Pavel Petrovitch declared, drawing himself up, and throwing his head back.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  'Saucy mite,' said Fenitchka, not drawing her face away.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  'Yes, a force is not to be called to account,' said Arkady, drawing himself up.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  She got up from the sofa, and carelessly drawing a velvet cape trimmed with yellowish ermine over her shoulders, she said languidly, 'Good-morning, Victor,' and pressed Sitnikov's hand.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  Meanwhile, the mazurka was drawing to a close.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  Yes, I am old, she added, softly drawing the ends of her lace over her bare arms.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Anna Sergyevna gave him some drink, not taking off her glove, and drawing her breath timorously.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  A January day was drawing to its close; the cold evening was more keen than ever in the motionless air, and a lurid sunset was rapidly dying away.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  "Listen, dear Annette," said the prince, suddenly taking Anna Pavlovna's hand and for some reason drawing it downwards.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
14  Anna Pavlovna's drawing room was gradually filling.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
15  Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
16  He is drawing a diagram, showing how the machine works.
17  The laptop drawing tablet is a very useful piece of hardware.
18  If it is a genuine Michelangelo drawing, it will sell for millions.
19  Other car manufacturers have similar projects on the drawing board.
20  He has great skill in drawing.
21  The train is just drawing into the station.
22  The council is drawing up a strategy to meet the needs of the homeless.
23  Concerning over the Pentagon's ability to disable the free system at any time is drawing other countries into the GPS game.
24  Parents should not belittle their children's early attempts at drawing, but should encourage their efforts.
25  Miss Havisham kept her lawyers busy drawing up another codicil to add to her already complicated will.
26  Whenever he finished a crayon drawing, he would lovingly present it to his mother.
27  Sitting on the beach, Mrs. Dalloway watched the tide ebb: the waters receded, drawing away from her as she sat there all alone.
28  Charcoal can draw on almost any type of paper meant for drawing.
29  He learned drawing from his father.
30  If you have a disease called COPD, drawing a breath can be difficult, in fact, is a frightening struggle.