Sentence for doing | Use doing in a sentence

Sentences using the word doing. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use doing in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for doing.

  • What were they doing? (8)
  • And what was he doing? (8)
  • Emma, this is your doing. (4)
  • It must be his own doing. (4)
  • That was your doing, papa. (4)
  • We some think of so doing. (9)
  • Why does he go on doing it? (8)
  • It was all my doing, I know. (4)
  • What was the Goshawk doing? (10)
  • A clumsy way of doing things! (8)
  • You showed me what I was doing. (8)
  • What was he doing all this time? (18)
  • It had been my doing, solely mine. (4)
  • Her father consented to her doing so. (10)
  • My object in doing so was to spare you. (22)
  • You are not aware of what you are doing. (4)
  • And what pretty thing had he been doing? (10)
  • He ought to be there, doing, not cogitating. (10)
  • She is in good hands, and sure of doing well. (4)
  • Between ourselves, I trust to be doing some good. (10)
  • The two little steamers were doing their duty well. (7)
  • He knew nothing of what she had been doing out there. (8)
  • I think sin often just means doing things differently. (8)
  • Very likely he might have preferred not doing anything. (9)
  • But I was very little aware of what I was saying or doing. (10)
  • I had not a suspicion that I could be doing anything wrong. (4)
  • Irene keeps doing; but Pen just sits in her room and mopes. (9)
  • And what I am doing now is passing a most charitable judgment. (12)
  • The reason is, his brains are bent On doing things right single. (10)
  • Thence to Tintern, where we spent four days, doing Ragland meanwhile. (14)
  • Edward disliked the Harmsworth Press; Robert thought it was doing good. (8)
  • It would have looked so particular; and you know how I abhor doing that. (4)
  • He was very comfortable; so of course he thought Time was doing his duty. (10)
  • She could not help doing that; it made everything seem holy, cuddley, warm. (8)
  • Stephen was of opinion that poor old Hilary must look out what he was doing. (8)
  • He would want to hear himself talk, and be let feel that he was doing something. (8)
  • He answered confusedly, trying to assure her that he was doing so, and he choked. (10)
  • How everybody always managed to work into a letter what they were doing in the war! (8)
  • James asked once where June was, and what she was doing with herself in these days. (8)
  • Speedily she forgot how the doing so would in any way have strengthened her prayer. (22)
  • Was it because he was dreadful enough for both, all the time, without doing anything? (9)
  • I keep thinking what the end of it is to be; and reproaching myself for doing nothing. (8)
  • After doing this he threw himself once more upon his bed, and this time fell into a doze. (8)
  • As completely isolated from his kingdom as a Czar of all the Russias, he was doing nothing. (8)
  • I knew the name, the place, I knew all about it, and instantly saw what she had been doing. (4)
  • She was about to speak, but she caught her breath without doing so, and merely stared at him. (9)
  • There were requests for money, and careful omission of any real account of what he was doing. (8)
  • He is indeed fallen from grace who makes a merit of doing what is decent and honest and fair. (16)
  • They were unaccustomed to much manual work themselves, their squaws doing most of the labour. (19)
  • He considered it in such hopelessness of ever doing it justice that his despair broke in laughter. (9)
  • The doing good to those that despitefully entreat us was not meant for enemies of the commonwealth. (14)
  • He determined to spend the miserable remnant of his life in going about doing good and bestowing alms. (9)
  • If only she could summon him from the moonlight out there; if only she were a witch-could see him, know where he was, what doing! (8)
  • All I am doing is the merest beginning, and everyone overestimates it absurdly and makes a mountain of this molehill. (12)
  • The idea of his being in a position that suggested his doing so, thrilled him with fits of rage; and it appalled him. (10)
  • All that she succeeded in doing was to rob it of the aurora colour clothing everything on which Matey Weyburn set his aim. (10)
  • Far from doing that, he appeared to be unaware that they went, with the varying days, through circles, forming and reforming. (10)
  • Think of our being three hours in the same compartment, and she doing all she could to impress us and our getting no good of it! (9)
  • But his chief feeling was a bewildered anger that for doing what seemed to him his duty, he should be attacked by his parishioners. (8)
  • She had no right to retain the family jewels; she had the most perfect of established rights to refuse doing an ignominious thing. (10)
  • He stood in front of the loggia, biting his fingers, a kind of nineteenth-century buccaneer, and I wondered what he was doing in this galley. (8)
  • The country editor is doing very well, and the trend of his business affairs is in the direction of better financial returns and wider influence. (16)
  • Señor Cánovas is doing only what any other Spaniard would do in his place, that is, endeavoring to suppress opinions which he believes to be mischievous. (14)

Also see sentences for: doings, undoing.

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