LIKING in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for LIKING, such as:

1. He liked to kid Ingrid a lot.
2. That she marry to her Aunt's liking.
3. He liked to sing hymns as he worked.
4. He sneered at people who liked pop music.
5. She liked to pull her rank on her inferior.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIKING
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liking
 n.  a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  That she marry to her Aunt's liking.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  Without responding to these telegraphic communications, Mr. Harthouse encouraged him much in the course of the evening, and showed an unusual liking for him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
3  There was nothing disagreeable in Mr. Rushworth's appearance, and Sir Thomas was liking him already.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Could they be much together, I feel sure of their liking each other.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  Fanny, not liking to complain, found it easiest to make no answer; and though he looked at her with his usual kindness, she believed he had soon ceased to think of her countenance.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  "Yes," said Fanny, in a faint voice, and looking down with fresh shame; and she did feel almost ashamed of herself, after such a picture as her uncle had drawn, for not liking Mr. Crawford.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  A poor honourable is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  The object of this new liking was not among his myrmidons.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  And as to Captain Wentworth's liking Louisa as well as Henrietta, it is nonsense to say so; for he certainly does like Henrietta a great deal the best.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  It was not merely complaisance, it must be a liking to the cause, which made him enter warmly into her father and sister's solicitudes on a subject which she thought unworthy to excite them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  Not liking to call her he went back and replenished the fire, continuing to do this for more than half an hour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
12  We had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he roused himself from his reverie.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
13  It was evident that he shared our host's liking for the fresh Alexandrian cigarettes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
14  It was a situation which interested the neighbors and annoyed their mother, who had no liking for Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  Gerald knew that despite the genuine liking of the County men with whom he hunted, drank and talked politics there was hardly one whose daughter he could marry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  She liked to sunbathe in the seclusion of her own garden.
17  She trapped him into a situation that he liked her.
18  He liked to kid Ingrid a lot.
19  He sneered at people who liked pop music.
20  He laboured under the constant misapprehension that nobody liked him.
21  We saw several houses but none we really liked.
22  She liked to pull her rank on her inferior.
23  John liked him because he was a nervy guy and would go out and shoot anybody who John wanted him to shoot.
24  He liked to sing hymns as he worked.
25  She didn't know anything about music but she liked to sing.
26  My son was a quiet and gentle man who liked sports and enjoyed life.
27  I liked him enormously and was sorry when he left.
28  She liked to watch her mother array herself in her finest clothes before going out for the evening.
29  Beyond the verge of provocation I never ventured; on the extreme brink I liked well to try my skill.
30  Mary liked John until she learned he was dating Susan; then she called him an abominable young man.