Sentence Examples

1. The ground rumbled beneath him, nigh costing him his balance.
2. Their guilty glances in my direction were enough to tell me I had narrowly avoided letting them raise the alarm, and costing us our only chance to get out of here.
3. He knew it was costing the young man an enormous effort to keep going.
4. There must be all sorts in the world and though we may be all knights, there is a great difference between one and another for the courtiers, without quitting their chambers, or the threshold of the court, range the world over by looking at a map, without its costing them a farthing, and without suffering heat or cold, hunger or thirst but we, the true knights-errant, measure the whole earth with our own feet, exposed to the sun, to the cold, to the air, to the inclemencies of heaven, by day and night, on foot and on horseback nor do we only know enemies in pictures, but in their own real shapes and at all risks and on all occasions we attack them, without any regard to childish points or rules of single combat, whether one has or has not a shorter lance or sword, whether one carries relics or any secret contrivance about him, whether or not the sun is to be divided and portioned out, and other niceties of the sort that are observed in set combats of man to man, that you know nothing about, but I do.
5. There are too many stories of grand government schemes costing hundreds of millions of dollars that have failed to make a difference or just failed outright.
6. The fracas was costing the TAB business and could end up with the shop trashed or one of these blueing knuckleheads comatose.