Example sentences for: ing

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

  • ..ing out than outside the tent p.

  • “ `Me and another student got up and started teach— ing class ourselves,' [Sandra] Baker said of a business English class in which she said the instructor missed three weeks of classes.”

  • Hawkins' quest, and-depending on which statements of the book you read-its endpoint (‘… a comprehensive theory of how the brain works … describ[ing] what intelligence is and how your brain creates it’) or just its tipping point (‘join me, along with others who take up the challenge’), are the subject here.

  • In the KLM pilot's case, what linguists call the present progressive aspect, which is expressed in English by a verb's -ing form, can be expressed in Dutch by the equivalent of at plus the verb's infinitive.

  • Even when he tried to write well he was "craft[ing] his prose with the care of a man for whom words are weapons."


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