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Sentence Examples That afternoon, my cousins and I were admiring its shininess and how cool it looks. We walked across the bridge, admiring its construction, the passing cars and the East River perilously close. He tilted his head, admiring the view and the way her jeans hugged and pulled. She slapped the insect against her side mightily, with a gesture like a very fat man swarthily admiring his own girth. They are now looking forward to watching the garden blossom and admiring the fruits of their hard work. Tal made his way into the town, admiring the plain folk who were too busy enjoying their simple lives to notice them. He was a signwriter and housepainter by trade, admiring William Morris and Walter Crane and specialising in mural decoration. With an affectionate and admiring smile on his own face, he has written an unaffected biography of an unaffected great man. He would turn from side to side, admiring his prize package from the reflection in the mirror. He grabbed it and unsheathed it, admiring the slim silver blade and the connoisseur smith who had shaped it. Coming around between it and her old hope chest, she finds her husband admiring himself in the mirror. It was hot when I woke but not so much that I couldn't enjoy a brief stroll around the garden, admiring the flowers in the sunshine. The women gather near a row of flowerpots which has been set in front of one of the garden structures, discussing and admiring the blooms. Emma raised her hand, admiring the enormous ring as it sparkled under the brilliant sunlight, flashing radiantly. Penelope, 30, also admitted she is so impressed with her new muscles she can't stop admiring them. He looked around, admiring the garden that was in bloom a couple feet away from him. Meanwhile, the Market Place was humming with a busy car boot sale, with many admiring the vintage cars on display. Yukiko is admiring the new halter-neck she bought as she walks along the street, behind her sister. On the other hand, in the early days a considerable percentage of our hits were by ourselves, admiring our own handiwork. The tone of Nicholls' biography is dispassionately respectful, admiring even. Show More Sentences She looked at him in the picture, admiring how easy going and carefree he seemed. He stood admiring it at home plate for a long moment before raising his fist in the air and rounding the bases triumphantly. Do you think you could stop admiring your manicure, stir your stumps and do it before your mistress comes downstairs for breakfast? Yet their scavenging clears up immense quantities of carrion, and we should be grateful, if not admiring. Pinning the white stomacher into the dress, I turned before the mirror, admiring myself. For those of us who grew up admiring his brand of heads-up baseball, it's sad to watch. I've since spent time admiring the rifle's handsomely figured walnut stock and rollover cheekpiece. How wonderful to sit eating sausage rolls in the sunshine and admiring the garden. Bridgette and Francoise concentrated their energy on admiring their current hero. It was an immediate hit with the public and drew thousands of admiring visitors to Kelvingrove. A second group stands admiring a finished work depicting red peony flowers. I lingered in the hallways for awhile admiring the artistic prints of money adorning the walls. Far from being diffident, gratulatory or admiring, patients may bubble with entitlement, seethe with rage and insist on constant approval. All around her stood high fields of wildflowers and grass and she spun around admiring the view. He looked to where Jane indicated and saw a very pretty young girl dressed in green, dancing gracefully with an admiring partner. On 23 June, the restored airliner was rolled out to an admiring crowd of spectators. We were all admiring her British stiff upper lip as she gobbled down a witchetty grub as if it were a bar of chocolate. As any red-blooded male should, I found myself admiring her form in the many varied outfits she wore throughout the film. Ann James and her son and their friend David James were admiring the woodturning display. In the 1960s, young womanhood was defined as essentially concerned with a feminine appearance and attracting the admiring male gaze. Show More Sentences I'd like to take you on a little jaunt through my backyard here in Ithaca to meet some of the plant denizens I spend much of my time admiring. Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades. I went by a yacht yard beside the highway every day and one day stopped in and began admiring a Compac yacht. I then spent a sufficient amount of time in the cathedral admiring the altar and ceiling. Three teenage schoolgirls were feasting on deep-fried chicken and chips and looked on, admiring the grace and agility of the couples. I spent the day admiring the mud-brick mini-skyscrapers of the Hadhramauti towns, with their wooden latticework and sky-blue window frames. He had sort of a cult following him, admiring and lauding his every action. From the Telegraph to the Guardian, from the Mail to the Mirror, he was laurelled in admiring headlines. Unlike some people I know, I don't need to spend hours primping and admiring myself in the mirror. I plunked down my cash, all the while admiring the plant with its white flowers so much like the heads of a gaggle of nodding geese. There is much admiring of young legal eagles, studying of wizened magistrates and cowering from unrepentant defendants to be done. They kept a leisurely pace on the walk up to the restaurant, admiring the scenery as they went. I began collecting craft books in early November, eagerly anticipating the barrage of oohs and aahs coming my way from admiring December guests. Ty looked over in her direction nervously, admiring her curvy figure and lush lips. They visited the stables, admiring the horses, and settled in to read from the extensive library Geoff had collected. We made our way up the escalator to the restaurant on the top floor, admiring the breathtaking view as we ascended. I've not noticed anyone admiring the muscles and shoulder aches that go with it too. Ian picked up the revolver and held it in his lap with both hands, staring at it, admiring the dull sheen of the metal. She finds a wall mirror and finishes drying her eyes, and then she smiles strangely, admiring herself. She imagined her home even lovelier than it was now, and she imagined everyone admiring her, envying her, wishing they, too, had such a gift. Show More Sentences Anyway, she was friendly enough and let me linger in the corridor admiring the many rosettes she has won for her chickens. You led me to believe you enjoyed my company, then arrogantly spurned my proposal without even admiring the ring. She intently studied his penmanship, admiring the elegant arches, careless flicks, and long loops of his letters. When they looked up from their guitars, they saw the smiling, admiring faces of their grade seven classmates. I have spent a lot of time in Kashmir during my childhood and grown up admiring the musical notes of santoor as my father played the instrument. We are sitting outside the council building, admiring what a local told us was the largest frangipani tree in the world. The youth was standing at his workplace, admiring the finished product in the light when the boy came scampering up to him. As a writer she is coy about her influences, although she will admit to admiring Jilly Cooper. Don a high-tech silver poncho and sip a frosty vodka cocktail from glasses cut from solid blocks of ice while admiring the frozen sculptures. Then the people of the Qu'ran join with the People of the Book, admiring their common prophets. I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear. Behind him, seven-year-old Jordan stood in awe with his grandmother, admiring the enormous marrows. As I sat on a bench in the huge courtyard, admiring the myriads of rose gardens, a three-dimensional vision suddenly appeared. On every one of its 500 pages one cannot help admiring the sheer classiness of writing that is the literary equivalent of leather upholstery. He touched his blue silk bathrobe delicately as he wandered around, admiring his exorbitant surroundings. But she did manage, while admiring everything, to open every cupboard while he breathed heavily and beerily beside her. Now they are relying on visitors to generously donate money while admiring the beautiful petunias, begonias and busy lizzy flowers. Walked off the crawfish beignets and bread pudding while admiring the Greek Revival and Italian architecture on the Garden District Walking Tour. As the Birdwoman stood in front of the window admiring the dress, an urge started to well up inside her. Even then, her silent beauty had received admiring appraisals and envious glances. Show More Sentences He quite clearly loves Europe, respecting its diversity but admiring its ambitious attempt to unify. She pulled the sword in its protective sheath from her back and held it in front of her, admiring the worn leather. She walked along the garden edges admiring the flowers that only opened to moon light. The previous unattractive ambience was immediately replaced by dazzling lights, flickering flash lamps, heart stirring music, applause and admiring looks. They are the subject of a new, admiring bestselling book, The Everything Store, by Brad Stone. Their research translated into phenomenal book sales and admiring features. Not everybody was so admiring, and Martin was shot at least 23 times on nine occasions. Afterwards, enjoy wandering around the gardens and admiring the waterfall. I stared at the knife in my hand for a long time, turning it over and over in my hands, admiring the keen edge and the gleaming metal that made the blade. And this frail woman in her khadi sari worked till she was 80, gracefully living with her Parsi daughter-in-law, always encouraging her and admiring her for what she did. Maria stood admiring her own reflection in the full length bedroom mirror. I resist the temptation to buy a didgeridoo, settling for a hand-painted bookmark, and spend a few minutes admiring the city skyline in the distance. If two leggers are respectful and properly admiring of us for the exotic, superior beings that we are, then we will always be well behaved in return. It's not every day that I'm jolted out of a lazy reverie by an estate agent and a potential purchaser standing in the middle of my bedroom, admiring the view from the window. Every day when he is not landscaping gardens for the island's wealthy, he fashions lifelike works of art much to the curiosity of admiring visitors. But a soft ripple of laughter emerges from the other young woman in the room, who's been standing and admiring her image in the tall mirror by the dresser. As an American student in Italy and Greece he fell sway to early Greek art, admiring the simple graphic forms of early black-figure vase painting and archaic Greek sculpture. He would be able to fit right in with all the other chaps admiring prams and nursery mobiles with the duckies and baa-lambs in the metrosexual male department at Myers. Suddenly on the third hole, you are forced you to hit a tee shot from one peninsular to another, and the water you were admiring becomes your most perilous obstacle. Just don't expect to draw admiring glances on the school run. Show More Sentences After idly admiring the work for almost a week, Iolas gained the courage to enter his very first gallery. I'm sure there are some long-time metrosexuals who are praying this will secure his conversion to the dark side, once he gets used to admiring his pretty reflection. Come on, surely it's not beyond the wit of Wapping to rise to this challenge and ogle some young totty honestly, while still admiring her intelligence? He walked out of the kitchen area and tranquilly walked through the halls, admiring the paintings and furniture that were artfully placed in different places as decoration. I remember lying on the coping of a stone bridge over the water of Teviot, admiring the green-brown tint of the swift stream bickering over the stones. Just as my friend and I were admiring a youth and his horse swimming in the river, a very large man with a troop of youths and a pair of young coloured horses appeared. Lovers of the team and the game and unafraid of admiring the opposition. We had been admiring stylish old metal gates, and with the wide unploughed field boundaries had been singing the praises of the typically walker-friendly East Riding. In his eyes, acting was a commonplace skill, and the whole admiring East Coast establishment was populated by phonies. Jenn was admiring herself in the mirror at her vanity table. The violinist forms the tenderest of silhouettes against the backdrop of the single, solitary window-sill, admiring only the sound and the ebonied vesper. We slowly circled around it, admiring the prolific fish life and invertebrates, including 5 species of clownfish, blue-ringed angels, and loads of cardinal fish. She struck a pose, admiring herself from several different angles. In 1802 she wrote an admiring letter to Sir W. Scott, who found some merit in her poetry and edited her works in three volumes, with a memoir, in 1810, at her suggestion. Major festivals attract huge crowds, and famous sites for admiring plum and cherry blossoms, irises, azaleas, chrysanthemums, and the bright leaves of fall draw many visitors. He consents to being an admiring observer but not a peeping Tom. His brother was conventionally dressed last week when, as one of many admiring headlines revealed, his ship pulled off a big cocaine bust during his first week at sea. Throughout her life the Queen Mother was a frequent visitor to the Tate, particularly admiring such mavericks as Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore. The devil's advocates, unlike the admiring artists who did their part to insure for Joan a different kind of immortality, understood her changeability and its implications. Everyone looks at you and gives you those admiring and envious glances. Show More Sentences Why, I was admiring the beautiful epergne in the drawing room. While you munch on your antipasti, you can view looped clips on flat screens of the duomos and gondolas of Italy and snippets of an actress admiring ancient Roman statues. Wainwright, notoriously shy, also includes one drawing of himself in each book, generally from behind, of him admiring a particular view. It has also been suggested that daffodils bending over streams represent the youth admiring his reflection. She drew admiring glances in St James's Park as she confidently set off on the rollerblades. As an interviewer, i quickly grasped that the key was to ingratiate myself with the subject, to be admiring, even humble, but not Heepish. Throughout dinner, we were admiring the building the restaurant resides in as the walls are exposed native fieldstone. Oscar Wilde generally disparaged his depiction of character, while admiring his gift for caricature. I think even their most admiring female fans must have found themselves reaching for the Pepto Bismol at least once. However, this doesn't prevent me admiring objects associated with these pastimes, like the beautiful cribbage board shown here. Austen had many admiring readers in the 19th century who considered themselves part of a literary elite. Is Kate checking out her competition, or admiring another leather jacket? Cheshire grins hide gritted teeth, whilst admiring looks hide five-second once-overs. I'm free from four walls for a while admiring the view before my eyes as I relax on the bridge at Llandaff just watching the majestic River Taff. I walked Jane down to the drive and watched her as she reversed, admiring her wristy gear changes. Meanwhile, we see a gaggle of trainspotters at Newcastle Central Station admiring the iconic Flying Scotsman which had pulled into platform nine in February of this year. A week later I was at a boatshow admiring a pretty little fibreglass dinghy, complete with faux lapstrake 'planks' and a wineglass transom, but without fittings for oars. It was the admiring comments from visitors that prompted The National Trust to give the tall order to specialist arboriculturists to measure the tree. The continued, admiring gloating over this act of rebellion in American schoolrooms, he concluded, has over the centuries imbued young Americans with an antitea attitude. As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook. Show More Sentences My father did not magnanimously toss fish to the admiring multitudes, and most likely he did not beckon to the catfish, which then leapt suicidally into our boat. Fair was Eutelidas once, with his beautiful hair, But admiring his face in the stream, on himself he inflicted A dread fascination, and wasted away with disease. Only the morally and spiritually healthy are capable of admiring the noble and the beautiful, and transforming them into great art by imaginatively penetrating their essence. They had a thousand odd stories and jokes about the events of the day, and burlesque descriptions and mimickings of the spectators who had been admiring them. He pitches his stories at the weekly staff meetings, regaling a table of admiring staffers including fellow reporters and a father-figure editor, Michael Kelly. The revelations about Eliot's private life surprised and shocked many of her admiring readers, but this did not affect her popularity as a novelist. As we gazed across the courtyard, admiring the minaret with its unusual exterior spiral staircase, I spotted two figures climbing upward, above the crenulated walls. Examples from Classical Literature After admiring the great statue awhile longer they discovered Mustapha sitting on the shady terrace of a coffee shop. I had no sooner read it than, after admiring it, I felt it must be answered. They seem to find some pleasure in admiring him in the part of agent provocateur. I cannot join the general public in admiring the sinuous majesty of the cats. Men do love to have girls appeal to their superior knowledge, and be admiring and deferent. He gazed thoughtfully at Injun, who, out in the sunlight, was still admiring his stickpin. He had met stoneman in the lobbies, where he was often the centre of admiring groups of friends. They mean to swim to the island opposite without any stopover, and are watched by an admiring crowd of youngsters. You could count them by hundreds, and your eyes grew weary of admiring them. Philip paused a while at the corner, by the ivied cottage, admiring it silently. Such was the diorama as it was first exhibited in London to admiring crowds. At which piece of self-assertion the girls looked at him with admiring eyes. Have done with Romaic, in admiring which you are making a great mistake, for it will play you the same trick it did me. There should be no institution out of the reach of an indignant or admiring humanity. Hitherto it had seemed to me clearly proven that admiring contemplation entailed this retroaction. All these years he had imagined her the amazed devotee, uncomprehending but admiring. I trust he is not one of those who think that a churchgoing on their wedding-day is once too often, he said, frankly admiring her. His friend looks on with an admiring grin in the background, unintroduced, but quite happy and contented. They have some customs at manilla which I could not help admiring. I suppose I have a considerable organ of veneration, for I retain yet the sense of admiring awe with which my eyes traced her steps. Show More Sentences Kennedy had, at length, become as talkative as Joe, and the two kept up a continual interchange of admiring interjections and exclamations. Geoff, however, was hardly at the age for admiring scenery much. He was basking in the frankly admiring gaze of Miss Knowles. Maggie, now really faint and trembling with fear, was t aken on board, making an interesting object of contemplation to admiring Dutchmen. We watch him, admiring his ferocious aspect, combating with death. She seemed to be remonstrating with him for going forward, yet more than half admiring him for not turning back, and I wondered why. Yet, whilst I am admiring the artist, I forget to satiate on the work. I was admiring this joyous rising of the sun, so gay, and so life-giving, when I heard steps approaching the platform. He thought of himself performing feats with the sign language and chance linguistics amidst a circle of admiring rustics. He and I walked around the farmyard, noting, observing, admiring. Villa Magdala We arrive to find it bustling with tourists admiring the mighty Georgian architecture that stands out among the lush green lawns. While she was still admiring it, Peggy picked up the filigree necklace. The three of us stood in the bow window and occupied ourselves in admiring the magnificent view. Meanwhile, Anne and honey-sweet were the centre of an admiring group. He had no idea of subjecting his wife to another admiring interview. The man with the beard shot an admiring glance across the tabouret. She usually sat passive, buried in a low sofa, like a Sultana Valide, awaiting or admiring her Ginevra, her pride, her life. But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial felicity really was. The Hart was once drinking from a pool and admiring the noble figure he made there. This is Procrustes admiring the exquisite proportions of his victim. Show More Sentences The raja admiring its beauty, took off his clothes and went down to bathe. It is impossible to know Bentham without admiring and revering him. However, they couldn't remain standing there admiring the table. Just such admiring wonderment for the powerful and the new suffuses Luard's Paris paintings of the teams of Percherons. I never passed within view of it without admiring its situation, and grieving that no one should live in it. It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under the admiring Heavens. He was a massive, implacable man with a handsome face, arbitrary and exacting with his dependants, but marvellously suave in his manner to admiring strangers. She smoothed it down over the wrist and buttoned it neatly, and both lost themselves for a second or two in admiring contemplation of the little symmetrical gloved hand. Casaubon, or rather from the symphony of hopeful dreams, admiring trust, and passionate self devotion which that learned gentleman had set playing in her soul. In the shop where he worked was a man, a Lithuanian like himself, whom the others spoke of in admiring whispers, because of the mighty feats he was performing. The lads came gayly back and went at their sports again with a will, chattering all the time about Tom's stupendous plan and admiring the genius of it. Find more words! 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