readying

How To Use readying In A Sentence

• They come upon the villagers from the town being taunted by donkey braying and find them readying themselves for battle.
• Now Mr. Roth, the hard-charging billionaire chairman of Vornado, is doing what can best be described as readying himself for the next Merrill. All Stories | The New York Observer
• His powerful muscles bunched, tensing up and readying themselves to deliver a payload of suffering and torture.
• He loaded six capsules into the chamber, then clicked it into place, and spun the chamber, readying it for battle.
• He motions across the brambly yard to the aqua-blue tank that looms like a spindly-legged giant or a flying saucer just readying for flight. The Angels and Jo-Jo Mason « A Fly in Amber
• John's soldiers were readying themselves for the final assault.
• And worse was to come; we had many weeks ahead where I, I, was to scurry as maid and skivvy, coaching her in the art of being Florence Reynolds, readying her for marriage to my groom! The wrecking of the 'Tayleur'
• These chemicals are pheromones: hormonelike substances released by one animal and perceived by another of the same species, and usually prompting a specific reaction—such as readying oneself for sex—or even changing hormonal levels. INSIDE OF A DOG
• The Navy had been readying for a grapefruit-sized satellite called Vanguard, and this was rushed to Florida for a quick blast-off in December 1957.
• The cafe is full of people with synopses, readying themselves for a night of serious modern music. Times, Sunday Times