Example sentences for: ing

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

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • How dreadfully mis lead ing!

  • 'ing all night about why the Creator made so many things that are patently absurd.

  • In them, Schoenfeld is accused of sexism, recklessness, distortion, ignorance, and "trivializ[ing] the human experience of victims in the Holocaust."


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