raying
- present participle of ray.
Example Sentences
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Ever since Colonel Lindbergh flew one across the Atlantic in 1927, most U. S. aeronautical engineers have been developing air-cooled, radial engines with cylinders raying out like huge wheel-spokes around a short, chunky crankshaft.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was looking around the hem to see if the quilt maker had stitched in her initials, but the edges were all raying away.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
The cobra at the point of stillness was like dark dulled jewels against it—dulled so that the raying of the jewels would not obscure the contour.
From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington
You ask me why I am raying," said the fair young creature; "but, indeed, I cannot tell you.
From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
There is a pale bit of moon towards morning, then faint streaks raying up in the east, and sounds of life once more.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
