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Example sentences for: ing

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Upon learning that mahon-meant `salt-lick,' the name was partially translated into English as Lick-ing, the -ing being added by phonetic transfer and probably some morphological influence, as well.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, you may remember, opposed the Gulf War on the grounds that Iraq's conquest of Kuwait was just one "nasty little country invad[ing] a littler, but just as nasty, country."
Is aggression the same as aggressiveness , or, on the other side of the spectrum, is passivity the same as passiveness ? The first is more the state, the second more the behaviour--but how about scarcity and scarceness ? One runs into the same problem with the - ing gerund versus the - ation nouns: which sounds better, implementing or implementation, ratifying or ratification?
How dreadfully mis lead ing!
Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are said to have matured into actual characters (as opposed to cartoon ones), and the sage Yoda makes his first appearance, "emerg[ing] from murky nature to become the spiritual center of the whole Star Wars game," says the San Francisco Chronicle 's Peter Stack.