inclining

Example Sentences

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Inclining her head, she quietly replied: "I understand."

From Mother by Gorky, Maksim

Inclining sideways, so that their long hair falls far over, they glide this way and that; one foot continually in the air, and their fingers thrown forth, and twirling in the moonbeams.

From Omoo by Melville, Herman

Inclining my body to the left, I turned my horse in that direction as sharply as his speed would permit.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis

Inclining his course westwardly from the Nacoochee valley, De Soto set out for Guaxule, which marked the limit of the queen's dominion, and which has been identified as Old Town, in Murray County.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler

Cuffe was near the just medium, Inclining a little too much, perhaps, to the naval dandy.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore