RECEIVING in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for RECEIVING, such as:
1. He is receiving treatment for shock.
2. Each person receives his proper quantum.
3. He died after receiving two bullet wounds in the head.
4. Our TV receives well since we had a new antenna put on.
5. She had been receiving medical treatment for depression.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RECEIVING
Receiving
 v.  accept as true or valid
 v.  receive as a retribution or punishment
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital at Willingdon, in spite of receiving every attention a horse could have.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
2  They all consulted together, and looked anxiously at the surgeon, as he asked some questions, and shook his head on receiving the replies.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
3  Probably the same motives which induced Cedric to open his hall to this son of a rejected people, would have made him insist on his attendants receiving Isaac with more courtesy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  On the very verge of the thicket two men spoke to his conductors, and receiving an answer in a whisper, withdrew into the wood, and suffered them to pass unmolested.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Oswald, on receiving this intelligence, resolved to return to his master for farther instructions, carrying along with him Gurth, whom he considered in some sort as a deserter from the service of Cedric.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  But his petty vanity was sufficiently gratified by receiving this homage at the hands of his immediate attendants, and of the Saxons who approached him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  She looked almost aghast under the new idea she was receiving.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  In every meeting there was a hope of receiving farther confirmation of Miss Crawford's attachment; but the whirl of a ballroom, perhaps, was not particularly favourable to the excitement or expression of serious feelings.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  The conclusion was scarcely intelligible from increasing fright, for she found that Mr. Crawford, under pretence of receiving the note, was coming towards her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  You have an understanding which will prevent you from receiving things only in part, and judging partially by the event.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  On receiving it, she could instantly decide on its containing little writing, and was persuaded of its having the air of a letter of haste and business.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
12  Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
13  An answer so different from the one he had expected to elicit, and was in the habit of receiving, staggered Mr. Bumble not a little.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Mrs. Bumble, whose patience brooked no delay, caught up a bowl of soap-suds, and motioning him towards the door, ordered him instantly to depart, on pain of receiving the contents upon his portly person.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We've gone ex-directory because we were receiving so many unwanted calls.
2  He is receiving treatment for shock.
3  Some patients are receiving what has been billed as a revolutionary treatment.
4  The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
5  He died after receiving two bullet wounds in the head.
6  She had been receiving medical treatment for depression.
7  I am a bit dizzy from the effort of writing and distributing, and receiving the responses.
8  You should fix the television antenna before receiving programs.
9  The artist's agent receives commission on a percentage basis.
10  Our TV receives well since we had a new antenna put on.
11  Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
12  He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows one should never remember it.
13  She receives rent from all the people whose cottages are on estate land.
14  The party receives most of its financial support from big business.
15  Each person receives his proper quantum.