LEADING in a Sentence

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Grinning negroes, excited as always at a party, were leading the animals to the barnyard to be unharnessed and unsaddled for the day.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEADING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
leading
 a.  chief; principal; having a position in the lead; foremost
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He mounted School House Hill at her side and walked on in silence till they reached the lane leading to the saw-mill; then the need of some definite assurance grew too strong for him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  He stood on the blackened foundation stones of the burned building, looked down the long avenue of trees leading toward the road and swore lustily, with a joy too deep for thankful prayer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Then feet shuffled up the back-porch stairs and into the passageway leading to the main house, stopping in the hall just outside the dining room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  John Wilkes always held his barbecues there, on the gentle slope leading down to the rose garden, a pleasant shady place and a far pleasanter place, for instance, than that used by the Calverts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Grinning negroes, excited as always at a party, were leading the animals to the barnyard to be unharnessed and unsaddled for the day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Her hand was behind her, still holding the knob, when Honey Wilkes' voice, low pitched, almost in a whisper, came to her through the crack of the opposite door leading into the bedroom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  He couldn't be when he's been mentioned in dispatches and when Colonel Sloan wrote that letter to Melly all about his gallant conduct in leading the charge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  They passed the lot where the Meade house had stood and there remained of it only a forlorn pair of stone steps and a walk, leading up to nothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  The bluntness of his question ruined all hopes of leading up to the matter in any circuitous and sentimental way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  She opened the door a crack and saw Frank leading a heaving, stumbling horse into the carriage house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  And he might have at least kissed her in front of Mammy who, after bobbing a curtsy, was leading Bonnie away down the hall to the nursery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
14  She stood for a moment remembering small things, the avenue of dark cedars leading to Tara, the banks of cape jessamine bushes, vivid green against the white walls, the fluttering white curtains.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
15  She was as unreasonable as an amateur leading woman on a first night, and he was reduced to humility.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The Democratic candidate is still leading in the polls.
17  There were two doors leading off the central room.
18  The minister suggested that the dire prophecies of certain leading environmentalists were somewhat exaggerated.
19  The company has begun to challenge the supremacy of the current leading manufacturers in the textiles industry.
20  Your job as a supporting actor is to play np to the leading character.
21  The catastrophe of a tragedy usually brings death or ruin to the leading character.
22  This book surveys the events leading to the Civil War.
23  They are the leading manufacturer in both defence and commercial products.
24  The company has consolidated its position as the country's leading gas supplier.
25  For a leading Democrat to chastise his own party at its own nominating convention was a remarkable political feat.
26  I think Israel tends to be at the leading edge of technological development.
27  With this new movie he has consolidated his position as the country's leading director.
28  This discussion is leading us nowhere.
29  The police are trying to establish a picture of events leading up to the killing.
30  Eventually they happened on a road leading across the desert.