TIDINGS in a Sentence

Learn TIDINGS 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.
182 example sentences for TIDINGS, such as:
1. We set sail at high tide.
2. Time and tide wait for no man.
3. A rising tide lifts all boats.
4. Hearken well and spread my tidings.
5. High tide is at seven in the morning.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TIDINGS
tidings
 n.  information about recent and important events
Classic Sentence: (159 in 11 pages)
1  On the fifth came evil tidings, not from the North but from the West.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Negroes were always so proud of being the bearers of evil tidings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  Seeing the panic written on the little black face and fearing she might alarm Melanie by crying out evil tidings, Scarlett hastily put her finger to her lips and left the window.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  She didn't want to hear bad tidings about her own family from an outsider, didn't want him to know of her ignorance of what had happened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  And yet, such tidings as these belonged first to a husband, for a husband was always happy to hear them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
6  From his complete inattention to the tidings, you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
7  But quickly they returned to him with the tidings that the Parsee was nowhere to be found.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
8  Jurgis went home, carrying these new tidings to the family council.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
9  His eyes fell on the still, upright, and rigid form of the "Indian runner," who had borne to the camp the unwelcome tidings of the preceding evening.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  I was sent by Major Effingham, at Sir William's own bidding, to outflank the French, and carry the tidings of their disaster across the portage, to the fort on the Hudson.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
11  So saying, the veteran again dropped his head to his chest, and returned slowly toward the fort, exhibiting, by the dejection of his air, to the anxious garrison, a harbinger of evil tidings.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
12  When, at last, Haley appeared, booted and spurred, he was saluted with the bad tidings on every hand.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  When he hurriedly announced the tidings among his hands, there was a sudden light in Tom's eye, a sudden upraising of his hands, that did not escape him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
14  There he found evil tidings awaiting him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
15  Hearken well and spread my tidings.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Hannah had told me in the morning there was a letter for me, and when I went down to take it, almost certain that the long-looked for tidings were vouchsafed me at last, I found only an unimportant note from him.
2  A rising tide lifts all boats.
3  He eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention.
4  Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
5  Time and tide wait for no man.
6  Sail while the wind blows; wind and tide wait for no man.
7  We have enough food to tide ourselves over the weekend.
8  The body was washed up on the beach by the tide.
9  When the tide went out , the boat was high and dry.
10  We set sail at high tide.
11  Miles of sand are exposed at low tide.
12  The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
13  There is a tide in the affairs of men.
14  When the tide ebbs it's a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans.
15  High tide is at seven in the morning.