Example sentences for: discovering

How can you use “discovering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Discovering these regulatory powers--which had escaped the notice of other FDA commissioners for more than 80 years--Kessler issued a slew of rules designed to suppress teen smoking, most of which were upheld by U.S.

  • A couple years ago Madison Square Garden, discovering that many of its season ticket holders were reselling them to brokers, revoked thousands of tickets in a stroke.

  • If they are white, discovering a blood relationship to a slave would tend to stimulate empathy for blacks.

  • Crossing the North Atlantic in late 1943, one of the nine of us packed in a cabin made for two read aloud a joke in a letter from home: A Scotsman (jokes were openly ethnic then) on discovering his near-drowned son being resuscitated yells at the exhausted rescuer, Well and good, mon, but where in 'ell is his hat?

  • He goes through a shower of picaresque trials: Three men set on him (he single-handedly beats them off); he saves a pregnant woman from death, and another woman from a band of renegade federal soldiers; various men try to recapture him; he is seduced by a woman whose husband, discovering the couple, tries to shoot him.


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