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coursing

[ US /ˈkɔɹsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɔːsɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent

How To Use coursing In A Sentence

  • The launch was held at a press conference at which graphic footage of foxhunting, staghunting and hare coursing was also released.
  • What they have "incentivized" executives to do, in countless cases, is not to perform, but to game the system, to smooth the numbers, to take insane risks with other people's money, to do whatever had to be done to ring the bell and send the dollars coursing their way into the designated bank account. Let's Move Their Cheese
  • She cried, tears coursing down her cheeks, mingled with the rain.
  • But when the adrenaline is pumping to your brain, the hot, sticky blood coursing through your veins, who could resist?
  • Mr. Lockhart shall furnish us with the brightest aspect a British Ferney ever yielded, or is like to yield: and therewith we will quit Abbotsford and the dominant and culminant period of Scott’s life: ‘It was a clear, bright September morning, with a sharpness in the air that doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing-match on Newark Hill. Paras. 50-73
  • Page 394 coursing through the green plains, and dark promontories, or obtuse projections of the side-long acclivities, alternately advancing or receding on the verge of the illumined native fields, to the utmost extent of sight; the summits of the acclivities afford, besides the forest trees already recited, Halesia, Ptelea, Circis, Cornus Florida and Amorpha. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
  • While Mortar was thus learnedly discoursing, Sel-quist herded his team over to a staircase, which was cut out of the rock wall and zig-zagged down the side of the cliff. The Doom Brigade
  • Wonderful bubbles of optimism are coursing round my body again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their eyes never broke away from their gaze, each mirroring those nameless emotions coursing through them.
  • Then, suddenly, a jolt of shock went coursing through her as she glanced beyond the double doors, toward the gates of the school.
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