Doing in a sentence

What were you doing at that window?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Creep forward quietly and see what they are doing—but for heaven’s sake don’t let them know that they are watched!
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

A kind of gentleman he was, as far as he could see, but what he was doing he could not make out.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

What are you doing here, Barrymore?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I would suggest carrying this poor fellow to my house, but it would give my sister such a fright that I do not feel justified in doing it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

I was doing no harm, sir.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Was that his work or was it possibly the doing of someone who was bent upon counteracting his schemes?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

We were only doing our duty in taking this chance of putting him back where he could do no harm.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

It is my doing, Sir Henry—all mine.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

In doing so I held it within a few inches of my eyes, and was conscious of a faint smell of the scent known as white jessamine.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

“In doing so,” said Dr. Mortimer, who had begun to show signs of some strong emotion, “I am telling that which I have not confided to anyone.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

No, sir, no; though I am happy to have had the opportunity of doing that as well.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

What was I doing with the lady?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

However, the man is fortunately rather deaf, and he was entirely preoccupied in that which he was doing.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

But how in the name of wonder did you come here, and what have you been doing?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

Did he find out where he hid, or what he was doing?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

How did you know what I was doing?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— the act of performing or executing : ACTION
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Collins
— an action or the performance of an action
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Other Word Forms

did
do
does
doings
done


Usage

17 uses of ‘doing’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle