REMAINING in a Sentence

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1. The doctor ordered him to remain in bed for a few days.
2. He will remain manager of the club until the end of his contract.
3. The president will remain in office until the official handover in April.
4. A certain person, who shall remain nameless, forgot to lock the front door.
5. As far from home, died the chief remaining members of his friend Fagin's gang.

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 Meanings and Examples of REMAINING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
remaining
 n.  residue; something not used up
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
2  He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
3  It ended by their remaining there for a whole week, during which time the other animals saw nothing of them.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
4  At first the whelp would not draw any nearer, but persisted in remaining up there by himself.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
5  The remaining and lower part of the hall was filled with guards, holding partisans, and with other attendants whom curiosity had drawn thither, to see at once a Grand Master and a Jewish sorceress.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Even the natural obstinacy of Cedric sunk beneath these obstacles, where he, remaining on the point of junction, had the task of dragging a reluctant pair up to it, one with each hand.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  She stared at him, dazed and transfixed, and he went over and kneeled beside her, and took her two feet close in his two hands, and buried his face in her lap, remaining motionless.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  Her acceptance must be as certain as his offer; and yet there were bad feelings still remaining which made the prospect of it most sorrowful to her, independently, she believed, independently of self.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  Tom dangerously ill, Edmund gone to attend him, and the sadly small party remaining at Mansfield, were cares to shut out every other care, or almost every other.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  It astonished her that Tom's sisters could be satisfied with remaining in London at such a time, through an illness which had now, under different degrees of danger, lasted several weeks.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  As far from home, died the chief remaining members of his friend Fagin's gang.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
14  After the waste of a few minutes in saying the proper nothings, she began to give the invitation which was to comprise all the remaining dues of the Musgroves.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  It showed the barrow to be the segment of a globe, as perfect as on the day when it was thrown up, even the little ditch remaining from which the earth was dug.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  President Davis was captured at Irwinville, Georgia, on May 10, and the remaining confederate armies surrendered by June 1865.
17  The power of either Russia or China to act independently from the United States is constrained by their economic dependence on the world's remaining superpower.
18  Our basic and urgent job is to simply collect and protect the remaining fragments of the statues.
19  Despite threats of strike action, the management remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached.
20  The pupae remain dormant in the soil until they emerge as adult moths in the winter.
21  Although the curtain has now fallen on the Republican era, many of its values still remain.
22  The doctor ordered him to remain in bed for a few days.
23  A head-teacher needs to remain in close touch with teachers' everyday concerns.
24  He will remain manager of the club until the end of his contract.
25  The president will remain in office until the official handover in April.
26  My trousers won't remain up; I've lost so much weight.
27  If there's an argument between my daughter and her mother, it's important that I remain neutral.
28  I thought I would remain calm, but when I was confronted with/by the TV camera, I became very nervous.
29  It's safest to remain a good distance behind, in case the car in front suddenly stops.
30  A certain person, who shall remain nameless, forgot to lock the front door.