SHOWING in a Sentence

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1. You're taking a big risk showing this to Kravis.
2. I was grateful, without showing undue excitement.
3. Our teacher is showing us a new method of writing.
4. Scientists are showing an obvious foray into politics.
5. He is drawing a diagram, showing how the machine works.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHOWING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
showing
 n.  action of showing something, or fact of being shown;
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Here and there a star pricked through, showing behind it a deep well of blue.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  When her eye caught his, he smiled, showing animal-white teeth below a close-clipped black mustache.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  As Melanie looked at Ashley, her plain face lit up as with an inner fire, for if ever a loving heart showed itself upon a face, it was showing now on Melanie Hamilton's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  On the front steps stood two women in black and behind them a large yellow woman with her hands under her apron and her white teeth showing in a wide smile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  "Mrs. Bonnell's children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs. Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  They were no longer ruffled but were gathered up in scalloped festoons, showing braided petticoats beneath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  "Of course," said Rhett, his teeth showing beneath his mustache.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  Only the respect due Miss Pittypat and his presence under her roof as a guest had restrained him from showing his feelings more obviously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  He picked up his hat and bowed and she saw in the light of the lamp that his teeth were showing in a smile beneath his mustache.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  She thought dully what Aunt Pitty would say, if she could see her sprawled here on the front porch with her skirts up and her drawers showing, but she did not care.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  She could not speak, but seeing the direction of his eyes and their quick averting, she realized that her basque was open to the waist and her bare bosom and corset cover were showing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  Their disapproval had grown stronger because of her unwomanly conduct in the matter of the mills, her immodesty in showing herself when she was pregnant and so many other things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  But Mammy was showing her age and rheumatism was slowing her lumbering tread.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
15  She paid off the teamsters and Hugh and, abruptly leaving them, walked toward the office, showing plainly by her manner that she did not care to be accompanied.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  He is drawing a diagram, showing how the machine works.
17  Our teacher is showing us a new method of writing.
18  He bought a map showing the population distribution of Scotland.
19  You're taking a big risk showing this to Kravis.
20  The next moment he was "showing off" with all his might --cuffing boys, pulling hair, making faces--in a word, using every art that seemed likely to fascinate a girl and win her applause.
21  Though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over.
22  Not only are you showing your naivete regarding moviemaking, but you are seriously insulting the brave stuntman who actually performed the feat.
23  I was grateful, without showing undue excitement.
24  So showing good moral standards and being personable is a great start.
25  And though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over.
26  It confirms earlier research showing a link between brain atrophy and low levels of B12.
27  A researcher a year ago published startling research showing that the drug commonly known as ecstasy can cause Parkinson's-like brain damage.
28  Scientists are showing an obvious foray into politics.
29  With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace.
30  The Museum of Graphic Arts is holding a retrospective showing of the paintings of Michael Whelan over the past two decades.