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How to use pawing in a sentence

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Little grubby children rushed past her, pawing her dress, of which they had never seen such quality.
The pups emerged from their protective den, pawing the earth in celebration.
Part of the fun of preparing for a holiday is buying guidebooks before you leave, and then pawing over the pages in anticipation.
Charlie looked down at the eager young man sat on the edge of his seat, pawing at the rigid pleat of his trouser leg.
We heard a grunt from the undergrowth, then a rustle of leaves, then something pawing impatiently at the ground.
Kat peaked through her closed eye lids to see a little black kitten pawing at her feet.
Jonah saw several of the creatures pawing at the air and shaking their heads.
Her whole body is shaking in anger, and reminds me of a bull pawing the ground before it charges.
The blood bay stallion was pawing through the snow to the little thatches of dead grass below.
Juno looked around and saw that Riddle was right, for the two horses were pawing at the ground in agitation.
He looked about through the chilled air, pawing at the moist earth beneath him.
I didn't stop pawing through my bag in search of Kleenex but looked up from my seat on the bench.
I was slowly going mad with joy and trying my best to keep looking normal, pawing a CD every now and then.
We drive into town quick for something and return to find neighbors pawing through the stuff, thinking it was a yard sale.
I wander round looking like a lost child pawing things for a while, and then panic and pick up something which neither fits nor suits me.
We killed time here and there, and I found myself in a store pawing through the sale shirts.
I'm there often, greedily pawing their goods, and adding things constantly to my wish list.
This morning I was pawing through my jumbled collection of socks, looking for a match to an olive one I had already plucked from the drawer.
I wasn't about to let people go around pawing a holy artifact like it was just any old piece of junk.
He also drives away other sounders from home ranges by raising his dorsal crest, wagging his tail, pawing the ground and snapping his jaw.
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He had fearsomeness enough of his own to send him rearing and pawing the air until the whiffle-trees rapped his knees.
Mryna was pawing through a footlocker looking for boots when she heard a hesitant step behind her.
Never, according to Tommy the Mate, had the gravel of our carriage drive been so rucked up by the pawing feet of high-bred horses.
He's been pawing the air ever since Crew cabled, and this has blown him up completely.
He moved as if in a dream, opening the toolbox and pawing through it until he came up with a scarred hammer, one claw snapped off.
For a time the best sheep-dog in the North was pawing at the Gate of Death.
Where'd any of us be, if the Representative from this county got to pawing the air for reform?
They had been restive, backing and jerking and pawing and nickering for their feed-box.
The horses were tossing their heads, pawing the ground, and acting restive.
The war-horse, saddled and bridled, is pawing the earth and neighing.
The horse of a mounted field officer was pawing the garden turf.
It was his horse pawing with cold and impatience behind the signboard.
Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw nearer.
Old bots is pawing the earth and snorting his eagerness to help out.
Mr. Hungerford, pawing in the darkness at the offending footstool, swore.
Somebody's been pawing this all over, and the prints are probably spoilt.
If so, it came quickly unstuck, and the bull emerged, pawing and snorting.
And Davies and I were pawing one another in the dark of the cabin.
Lo, Miss Pross, in harness of string, awakening the echoes, as an unruly charger, whip-corrected, snorting and pawing the earth under the plane-tree in the garden!
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