How to Use doing in a Sentence

doing

noun

• It's the doing of the good deed that is important, not the thanks you receive.
• Some of it has been by our own doing.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• But his death was his own doing.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2026
• Getting to that lake took some doing.
  — Chantelle Kincy, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
• There was no word on what prompted her to do what she was seen on video doing.
  — CBS News, 26 July 2023
• The tour didn’t come to pass quickly, which was, in large part, my doing.
  — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
• Senzel had a rocky start to the season – not all of his own doing.
  — John Fay, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2020
• Some of it is the Panthers’ doing.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 6 Jan. 2026
• This is the doing of all things that people talk about on the campaign trail.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
• But that could take some doing, and might be easier said than done.
  — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
• The doings of generals, in this view, are froth on the waves.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• More than that, though, the concept sounded like a prison of my own doing.
  — Dr. Jenn Jackson, Essence, 30 Nov. 2022
• My 13-year-old self stood helpless and in pain of her own doing.
  — Sophie Gray, SELF, 16 July 2018
• Survivor’s guilt some would say, but a broken heart was the doing of her death.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2023
• Spurs were cut open by some smart play for the first goal, but the second goal was all their own doing.
  — SI.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Survivor's guilt, some would say, but a broken heart was the doing of her death.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• Survivor’s guilt, some would say, but a broken heart, is the doing of her death.
  — Hannah Sarisohn, CNN, 22 Jan. 2023
• Much of what Traylor was able to produce came by her own doing.
  — Tyler Fenwick, Indianapolis Star, 3 Feb. 2018
• The plight of China is partly of its own doing.
  — Dudley L. Poston, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026
• And none of this was your own doing and yet you are entirely lumped into it.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2018
• Morgan also said that the lack of depth on defense was his doing.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2025
• Ohm’s fix is partially his own doing.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• Minor ran into trouble in the third, much of it his own doing.
  — David Smale, Star Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
• This takes a little doing but is clearly explained in the box.
  — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• And a lot of the things that Pete was involved with were of his own doing.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2025
• The problem then is clearly in the doing, not in the knowing.
  — Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• But that’s easier said than done—and the doing truly does look tricky.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
• That’s what all that computing equipment is in the shed doing.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
• How much of Oahu's altered landscape was our doing?
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
• Their season is on the line, and Tuesday, so much of it was their own doing.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025