11411 examples of supplying in sentences

"My name is Kelson," the soldier said, supplying an omission due to Henshaw's talk of himself.

"It occurs to me he is hiring those poor workmen at low wages and making a profit on all their living necessities, which he reserves the right of supplying from his own store.

However, when word was finally passed along from the mill that the dynamo was running and supplying power to the printing press, a howl of rage went up and a sudden rush was made for the line, the attack concentrating at one point.

Instead of, or beside, supplying such paint-boxes as we do, we might supply these natural colors to the young.

As soon as the 200,000 Chinamen ordered by Mynheer KOOPMAN-SCHOOP arrive in this country, a good business can be driven by Yankee toothpick makers in supplying them with chopsticks.

Condivi published his own modest biography in 1553, with the expressed intention of correcting errors and supplying deficiencies made by "others," under which vague word he pointed probably at Vasari.

Supplying food to the dead is a custom which is known to be of great antiquity; in some instances, as among the ancient Romans, it appears to have been a sacrificial offering, for it usually accompanied cremation, and was not confined to food alone, for spices, perfumes, oil, &c., were thrown upon the burning pile.

Widows, according to some old writers, after supplying the grave with food for a year take up the bones and carry them on the back in the daytime, sleeping with them at night for another year, after which they are placed at the door or upon the house-top.

Having spent £800,000 in supplying the delicacies of the table, and having only £80,000 left, he hanged himself, not thinking it possible to exist on such a wretched pittance.

The very objectionable custom of supplying the passengers with intoxicating liquors without limit and without any additional charge, thus compelling the temperate or abstinent passenger to contribute to the expenses of the intemperate, was done away.

The librarian and an assistant are left open, to distribute the books; that is to go to each man's cell, get the book he had the previous Sunday, and give him another in exchange, generally supplying them with a small tract, of which we mostly have a great plenty.

" If we refuse the Americans as customers, we compel them to become our rivals; and, after supplying their own wants, they will compete with us for the trade of the world, on more than equal terms.

Shall their office be confined to the care of the linen and stores, and the supplying of extra diets and comforts?

" Experiences like this God gives to all his children, not for the purpose of leading them to look to Him for supplying their physical necessities, as an end, but to make Himself known to them, and to secure their confidence and love, for "this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent."

Some of the time, moreover, Betts passed in fishing, supplying not only Mark and himself, but the pigs and the poultry, with as much food as was desired.

Into this all the canoes entered, and a sandy beach supplying fresh water in abundance having been found, an encampment was made for the night.

Poverty turns our thoughts too much upon the supplying of our wants; and riches, upon enjoying our superfluities.'

"Their supplying ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood."Ib., p. 375.

"This construction is no otherwise known in English, than by supplying the first or the second person plural.

Wells thinks, the practice of supplying a preposition, "is, in many cases, arbitrary, and does violence to an important and well established idiom of the language.

So that the question resolves itself into this: What is the best way of supplying the ellipsis, when two objectives thus occur after ask?G. BROWN.

On the other hand, we shall surely be supplying ourselves with a powerful aid, if we may direct the eye to forms of purity and beauty; and accustom our village children, (who are now our hope,) from infancy, to look daily on what is holy, and pure, and good.

This reservoir is for supplying water to the cloth factories of Verviers, on the Belgian-German frontier.

This seems to have been his simple and sufficient creed, and certainly it had the merit of supplying a clear rule of action.

They had covered 150 miles from Larissa, with no facilities but wagons for feeding the army and supplying ammunition.

11411 examples of  supplying  in sentences