Inducing
[ɪn'djʊs]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Induce
Typed by Hannah
Examples
- There was a means, too, of rendering her delightful, by inducing her to take her guitar and sing and play. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now, Eustacia's dream had always been that, once married to Clym, she would have the power of inducing him to return to Paris. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We use the crab-apple for preserving even now, although man’s ingenuity has succeeded in inducing nature to give us many better tasting kinds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My chance of ever holding up my head again among honest men depended on my chance of inducing her to make her disclosure complete. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- After all that he had come through, Maurice found no difficulty in inducing sleep to come to his pillow. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The efficiency of these magneto-electric machines was necessarily limited to the strength of the inducing field magnets, which, being permanent magnets, were a positive and fixed factor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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