READING in a Sentence

Learn READING from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For READING, below is one of 307 sentences:
"I was greatly disturbed to hear of your recent conduct," ran Ellen's letter and Scarlett, who was reading it at the table, scowled.

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 Meanings and Examples of READING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reading
 n.  a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
 n.  written material intended to be read
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her head was wrapped in her shawl, and she was reading a book called "Kidney Troubles and Their Cure" on which he had had to pay extra postage only a few days before.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  "I was greatly disturbed to hear of your recent conduct," ran Ellen's letter and Scarlett, who was reading it at the table, scowled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  When Scarlett first began secretly reading these letters, she had been so stricken of conscience and so fearful of discovery she could hardly open the envelopes for trembling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  Melanie was always generous with the letters, reading parts of them aloud to Aunt Pitty and Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  But it was the part she did not read that tormented Scarlett, that drove her to surreptitious reading of her sister-in-law's mail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  After all, she wasn't reading Melanie's mail to learn Ashley's puzzling and uninteresting ideas.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  After reading the letters, she felt certain he did love her, Scarlett, even though he had married Melanie, and that certainty was almost all that she desired.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  No pang of conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth and charm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Scarlett bent her head over the blurred lists, reading rapidly, to find names of friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  Aunt Pitty was heaving and sighing on her shoulder and, with small ceremony, Scarlett pushed her over into a corner of the carriage and continued her reading.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  Scarlett rocked back and forth, lonely, miserable since reading the news from Tara, wishing that someone, anyone, even Mrs. Merriwether, were with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  So great was the shortage of paper in the Confederacy now that Gerald's note was written between the lines of her last letter to him and reading it was difficult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  She seemed to be reading her mind and Scarlett dropped her eyes unwillingly, the first feeling of guilt at her intended conduct creeping over her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  The library at Bellomont was in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking-room or a quiet retreat for flirtation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
15  She had no idea of reading the letters; even to unfold Mrs. Haffen's dirty newspaper would have seemed degrading.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
16  My mother made a sketch of my brother reading a book.
17  One section of the class was reading and the other section was writing.
18  I guess this reading room to contain five thousand books.
19  The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
20  A good deal of my time is taken up with reading critical essays and reviews.
21  I try to keep in touch with current events by reading the newspapers.
22  She is reading for a degree in physics in Beijing University.
23  The doctor is reading the Journal of Medical Science.
24  The list of drinks, a dozen pages long, makes fascinating reading.
25  Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
26  The booklist at the end of the chapter contains some introductory reading on the subject.
27  If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
28  There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
29  I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.
30  He couldn't finish reading it anywise.