STROLLING in a Sentence

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136 example sentences for STROLLING, such as:

1. The audience was strolling up and down.
2. We were strolling along, laughing and joking.
3. The artist depicted them strolling through a park.
4. The artist depicted him strolling through a garden.
5. After dinner, they took a romantic stroll by the sea.

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 Meanings and Examples of STROLLING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
strolling
 a.  leisurely walking
Classic Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  The next morning at sunrise Monseigneur Bienvenu was strolling in his garden.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
2  Not a single living being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or strolling in the gardens.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
3  Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME...
4  Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, and that without knowing why.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DIVRS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON
5  The first form seemed to be some elderly bourgeois, who was bent and thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
6  On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was strolling in the garden.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS
7  Cosette had taken the grandfather's arm and was strolling in the garden.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
8  A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that position, but with perfect balance, he was strolling across the yard.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  The audience was strolling up and down.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  I pray you, Sir Knight," said Rowena, "to cease a language so commonly used by strolling minstrels, that it becomes not the mouth of knights or nobles.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  Surely the devil keeps holiday, and the priests are relieved from duty, that they are strolling thus wildly through the country.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  She had before conjectured him to be a stranger like themselves, and determined that a well-looking groom, who was strolling about near the two inns as they came back, should be his servant.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
13  Just beyond it is a nice little grove of Scotch firs, and I used to be very fond of strolling down there, for trees are always a neighbourly kind of things.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
14  I knew the way by which she would come, and presently found myself strolling along the path to meet her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
15  Steerforth, who was in great spirits, had been strolling about the beach before I was up, and had made acquaintance, he said, with half the boatmen in the place.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
Example Sentence:
1  We were strolling along, laughing and joking.
2  The artist depicted him strolling through a garden.
3  The artist depicted them strolling through a park.
4  We are in strolling distance of cows, sheep and the occasional swan.
5  I strolled into the poolroom next to the gym, where the Coke machine was, to get something to drink.
6  He collected some orange juice from the refrigerator and, glass in hand, strolled to the kitchen window.
7  After dinner, they took a romantic stroll by the sea.
8  A casual observer would have taken them to be three men out for an evening stroll.
9  My sister and I stroll through the streets after supper.
10  Virtually stroll the campuses of Ivy-league schools or get a panoramic view of one of the oldest institutions in the English-speaking world, without having to enroll or attend an open house day.