FILING in a Sentence

Learn FILING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
178 example sentences for FILING, such as:
1. I don't understand your filing system.
2. She is the filing clerk of our company.
3. We must get some method into our office filing.
4. The file on the murder was closed five years ago.
5. He was convicted of filing false income tax returns.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FILING
filing
 n.  preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.
 n.  the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  And as he crossed the threshold of the door of the corridor he saw, without turning his head to look, that all the fellows were looking after him as they went filing by.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  He saw himself rising in the cold of the morning and filing down with the others to early mass and trying vainly to struggle with his prayers against the fainting sickness of his stomach.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Presently, on turning a corner, the britchka was brought to a halt through the fact that along the street there was filing a seemingly endless funeral procession.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
6  You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
7  I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
8  There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
9  The last I heard of him, I stopped in the mist to listen, and the file was still going.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
10  I got a dreadful start, when I thought I heard the file still going; but it was only a sheep-bell.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
11  And he stirred it and he tasted it; not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
12  He did this so that nobody but I saw the file; and when he had done it he wiped the file and put it in a breast-pocket.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
13  I knew it to be Joe's file, and I knew that he knew my convict, the moment I saw the instrument.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
14  A dread possessed me that when I least expected it, the file would reappear.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
15  Either Orlick, or the strange man who had shown me the file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
Example Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1  She is the filing clerk of our company.
2  The power to detain people without filing criminal charges against them is a dictatorial power.
3  Looking at four years of receipts he still had to sort through, Bob was truly sorry to procrastinate for so long and not finished filing his taxes long ago.
4  An example of a level three misdemeanor is filing a false police report.
5  Before filing its edges, the locksmith took the blank key and fixed it firmly between the jaws of a vise.
6  In its court filing, Air Canada revealed it had secured over seven hundred thousand US dollars in financing.
7  I don't understand your filing system.
8  He was convicted of filing false income tax returns.
9  We must get some method into our office filing.
10  Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, part of the big and highly indebted casinos conglomerate, took another step toward a bankruptcy filing on Friday.
11  Search the index to find the address of the data file.
12  The file on the murder was closed five years ago.
13  A trumpet called behind, ordering another troop to file right into a field of growing wheat.
14  Make a file for these documents and write 'finance' on the tab.
15  The party's rank and file are beginning to question the prime minister's choice of advisers.