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sending

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈsɛndɪŋ//

The act by which somebody or something is sent.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of sendpresent participle and gerund of send

    One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school.

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which somebody or something is sent.

    Both Matthew and Luke have three sendings of servants, but the narratives are framed differently. Matthew has two sendings of servants (plural) to the original guests, two excuses offered for the refusal, and one sending of servants to the substitute guests.

Forms

plural
sendings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).