Shaping

Examples

• As for sitting still, and learning from the past, or shaping out the future by faithful work done in a prophetic spirit--Why! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• No, only the trade of cutting gems and shaping mirrors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The demand for continuous attention is greater, and more intelligence must be shown in selecting and shaping means. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• My responsibility began and ended with shaping her instructions into the proper legal form. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The next slight touch in the shaping of Clym's destiny occurred a few days after. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But Lizzie, with her lips only, shaping the two words, 'Her father,' he delayed no longer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• That great inventor of labour-saving machinery had then designed machines for the shaping and making of gun stocks and for forming the accompanying parts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• My imagination was busied in shaping forth the kind of death he would inflict. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We interchanged that confidence without shaping a syllable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The notion that a pupil operating with such material will somehow absorb the intelligence that went originally to its shaping is fallacious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• True, the turning-lathe, the axe, the hammer, the chisel, the saw, the auger, the plane, the screw, and cutting and other wood-shaping instruments in simple forms existed in abundance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• All its highest and best qualities have been revealed to me in nothing more brightly than in the shaping out of that future in which I am so happy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Whoever is bent upon shaping politics to better human uses must accept freely as his starting point the impulses that agitate human beings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Edited by Lester