Wondering how to use Conferring in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Conferring meaning
present participle and gerund of confer
Using Conferring
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of confer
- In the example corpus, conferring often appears in combinations such as: conferring with, after conferring, conferring the.
Context around Conferring
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Conferring
- In this selection, "conferring" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jun, began, center, great, automatic and divine stand out and add context to how "conferring" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 16 after conferring with the and a rite conferring divine grace. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "conferring" sits close to words such as abang, abetting and accented, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with conferring
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After briefly conferring with the security guard, Officer Fletcher confronted Mr. Taylor, the office said. (15 words)
In 2000, Congress acknowledged that injustice and passed the Child Citizenship Act, conferring automatic citizenship to adopted children. (18 words)
On April 16 after conferring with the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, the Swinsons were released pending further investigation. (19 words)
The late Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, longtime president of the University of Notre Dame, characterized voting as a “civic sacrament,” a rite conferring divine grace on those who fulfill their obligation as citizens to register their choices for public office. (39 words)
In the words of the Supreme Court "When the government allocates land at discounted rates to the privileged few, it engenders a system of inequality conferring on them a material advantage that remains inaccessible to the common citizen. (38 words)
Moreover, as the above discussion makes clear, it was Congress’s declared purpose, in conferring such immunity, to allow platform operators to exercise this sort of wide discretion about what speech to allow and what to remove. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
China’s U.N. ambassador, Zhang Jun, conferring with Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, before a U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday about the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Furthermore, from May 22, 2023, inclusive, the shares will be traded on the stock market without conferring the right to the dividend.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began conferring in Tehran during World War II.
The conferring of Freedom of the City and County was unanimously adopted by councillors at the December meeting of the local authority.
This artist sketch depicts former President Donald Trump, center, conferring with defense lawyer Todd Blanche, left, during his appearance at the Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023.
This is wonderful for the children's books she writes, conferring great imagination, but this aspect could lead to confusion and uncertain thinking and even absent mindedness at times.
While Bolden was being loaded onto the cart, Belichick could be seen conferring with Packers head coach Matt LaFleur, Slater and referee John Hussey.
After all, the prime minister has chosen to go into the Easter break also conferring a knighthood on a man who last year gave £5m to the Conservative party.
In 2000, Congress acknowledged that injustice and passed the Child Citizenship Act, conferring automatic citizenship to adopted children.
In the words of the Supreme Court "When the government allocates land at discounted rates to the privileged few, it engenders a system of inequality conferring on them a material advantage that remains inaccessible to the common citizen.
Local people say the lake is named Iyake (Yoruba for “crying woman”) after a weeping, barren woman who fell in the water hundreds of years ago, conferring on it powers of fertility.
Moreover, as the above discussion makes clear, it was Congress’s declared purpose, in conferring such immunity, to allow platform operators to exercise this sort of wide discretion about what speech to allow and what to remove.
On April 16 after conferring with the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, the Swinsons were released pending further investigation.
The amended charge includes counts on conspiracy to commit forgery, conferring of corrupt advantage, criminal breach of trust among others.
The late Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, longtime president of the University of Notre Dame, characterized voting as a “civic sacrament,” a rite conferring divine grace on those who fulfill their obligation as citizens to register their choices for public office.
The uniform too has assumed quasi-religious status, conferring on its wearer a sense of not being subject to ordinary laws and norms.
After briefly conferring with the security guard, Officer Fletcher confronted Mr. Taylor, the office said.
After conferring with their employees, the decision was made to reduce everyone's hours instead of laying off some and keeping some full-time.
Anguish over Vietnam prompted donations from foundations such as the (ominously titled) Institute for World Order (in its grant-giving phase), conferring academic security and political respectability on the burgeoning movement.
Cordner, who has a history of head knocks, ruled himself out of the remainder of the series on Friday after conferring with those close to him.
Common combinations with conferring
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- conferring with 16×
- after conferring 13×
- conferring the 11×
- conferring on 8×
- as conferring 5×
- and conferring 4×
- conferring of 3×
- in conferring 3×
- for conferring 3×
- of conferring 3×