Creating
[kriː'eɪtɪŋ] or [krɪ'etɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
Inputed by Kurt
Examples
- The attack was made and many shots fell within the fort, creating some consternation, as we now know. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The terror which the woman and boy had been creating in Harriet was then their own portion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Finally, however, on the 12th of March, he did push down through the north-western end of South Carolina, creating some consternation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This is an attachment which a woman may well feel pride in creating. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a resolution of not creating you a companion in vice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Well, and were we not creating an ideal of a perfect State? Plato. The Republic.
- It is a way of creating ourselves. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Even if this country were comfortably well-off, healthy, prosperous, and educated, men would go on inventing and creating opportunities to amplify the possibilities of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Crawford's is no common attachment; he perseveres, with the hope of creating that regard which had not been created before. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The task of civilizing our impulses by creating fine opportunities for their expression cannot be accomplished through the City Hall alone. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- After dark, the enemy made a feeble attempt to turn our right flank, capturing several hundred prisoners and creating considerable confusion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Human beings control animals by controlling the natural stimuli which influence them; by creating a certain environment in other words. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is then right to say that what we do depends on what we are; but it is necessary to add also, that we are, to a certain extent, what we do, and that we are creating ourselves continually. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With earth-augurs, drills, and drill cleaning and clearing and fishing apparatus, and devices for creating a new flow of oil, and tubing, new forms of packing, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She was feeling too much; but at last Emma collected from her enough to understand the sort of meeting, and the sort of pain it was creating. Jane Austen. Emma.
- By re-creating our own suppressed possibilities we multiply the number of lives that we can really know. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am not creating the figure of an ideal statesman out of some inner fancy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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