LANDING in a Sentence

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For LANDING, below is one of 246 sentences:
The stairs were still carpetless, and on the way up to her room she was arrested on the landing by an encroaching tide of soapsuds.

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 Meanings and Examples of LANDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
landing
 n.  touchdown; act of coming down to the earth
Classic Sentence: (201 in 14 pages)
1  The doors of the two bedrooms faced each other across the narrow upper landing, and to-night it was peculiarly repugnant to him that Mattie should see him follow Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  As he lay there he could hear Mattie moving about in her room, and her candle, sending its small ray across the landing, drew a scarcely perceptible line of light under his door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  The door of Mattie's room was shut, and he wavered a moment on the landing.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  Scarlett stood on the landing and peered cautiously over the banisters into the hall below.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  From the window on the landing, she could see the group of men sitting under the arbor, drinking from tall glasses, and she knew they would remain there until late afternoon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  She went up the stairs so swiftly that when she reached the landing, she thought she was going to faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  As she reached the landing, the whole lower floor leaped up at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  As she climbed the stairs, the faint rumbling of thunder began and, standing on the well-remembered landing, she thought how like the siege cannon it sounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  She stood on the landing, leaning against the banisters and wondered if he would kiss her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
10  He stood beside her on the landing, his eyes appraising her carelessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
11  On the landing she paused to look about her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
12  The stairs were still carpetless, and on the way up to her room she was arrested on the landing by an encroaching tide of soapsuds.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  In her stuffy room at the hotel to which she had gone on landing, Lily Bart that evening reviewed her situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
14  Running to a little closet under the landing of the stairs, she glanced in, and returning, told me that Queequeg's harpoon was missing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
15  We arrived at Baltimore early on Sunday morning, landing at Smith's Wharf, not far from Bowley's Wharf.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  There was no doubt that the crash put a bit of damper on an otherwise jubilant week for the space agency, dominated by good news stories about the successful landing of its Curiosity rover on Mars.
17  The ranch owners appropriate the lands that have originally been set aside for the Indians' use.
18  Five to ten rhinos are killed every year on average, mostly during Assam's devastating floods because they have to flee Kaziranga's low marshy lands to higher hills where they cannot be guarded.
19  Although the ostensible purpose of this expedition is to discover new lands, we are really interested in finding new markets for our products.
20  Some earned a living in illicit trafficking, from smuggling to prostitution, but others had been educated in France and had fortunes, lands, and slaves.
21  After the great eruption, fear of Mount Etna was great; people did not return to cultivate its rich hillside lands until the volcano had been quiescent for a full two years.
22  Those are made to dwell in fruitful lands; there they take root, and gain a settlement.
23  Five to ten rhinos are killed every year, mostly during Assam's devastating floods because they have to flee Kaziranga's low marshy lands to higher hills.
24  They will campaign for the return of traditional lands and respect for aboriginal rights and customs.
25  Those who dared to launch out beyond the unknown waters became the discoverers of new lands.
26  These lands had been granted to the family in perpetuity.
27  The myth says that he led a small band of followers to seek their fortune in distant lands.
28  He threw the ball to me, but I missed it and it landed on the ground.
29  He placed a marker where the ball had landed.
30  He fell out of the tree and landed on the ground with a thud.