Example sentences for: stepping

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

  • Bob Livingston, R-La., decided that instead of stepping down to become a fat-cat lobbyist, he would hang around in the hope of winning the speaker's job after Gingrich leaves.

  • However, it is not often that scientists have the luxury of stepping back and appreciating the context of their work in quite this way.

  • This is an important story and the Times is to be saluted for stepping over Tripp wires to run it where it belongs, but one still has the feeling the piece somewhat mishandles the information.

  • The remarkable work on civil rights done by Robert Kennedy's Justice Department bore a distinctly Republican stamp: John Doar, a celebrated member of that team--who single-handedly stopped an incipient riot at Medgar Evars' funeral by stepping into an angry crowd and yelling, "Anybody around here knows that I stand for what's right!"

  • If anything, in fact, the bond market should have rallied on news that Greenspan might be stepping down, since he has long since stopped being paranoid enough for bondholders, who seem perpetually convinced that the United States is about to become Brazil.


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