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Example sentences for "caked"

Lexicographically close words:
cajoled; cajoleries; cajolery; cajoling; cake; cakes; caking; cal; calabash; calabashes
  1. The man, roughly dressed, lay on his face, a bullet wound showing above one ear, the back of his neck caked with blood.

  2. It was Connors, a ghastly bullet hole between his eyes, one cheek caked black with blood.

  3. Dawn silvered the east, but the moon in its first quarter lay afloat in the western clouds, and a few stars looked down through a sky caked with frosted fleece.

  4. The clouds in mid-heaven had caked into snowy jets of fleece, and now the full moon of April flooded the soaked pavements with pools of silver.

  5. Presently the good man came, in rusty black, shouldering a fowling-piece, his pockets bulging with a Bible and Book of Common Prayer, his wig all caked and wet from a tour through the dewy willows behind the inn.

  6. Without water for a wash, his face and hair were still caked with the mud which also stiffened his clothing.

  7. The allusion to Teddy's hatless, mud-caked appearance raised a laugh.

  8. In dry weather it was red clay caked and checked by the sun, and wheels or hoofs stirred clouds of red dust that followed and choked the traveler.

  9. Casey saw the mud-caked feet move laboriously toward the rear of the car.

  10. The men's clothes became caked with the mud from the sides of the trench, which increased the weight to be carried.

  11. The men were soon wet, the ground sodden, and the bivouac sheets caked with mud.

  12. The caked earth looked as if a narrow board had been drawn over it.

  13. About all he actually did was to kick a stick along before him and pause now and again to examine the caked green moss on trees.

  14. They were as clear as tracks in caked snow.

  15. For perhaps a quarter of a mile the strange markings were clearly legible in the dusk, running as they did in the yielding caked surface of the stream bed.

  16. They came in groups of three to thirty, and the boys on the drivers' seats were so caked with dust I could hardly distinguish their features.

  17. As soon as he began to sweat under the hot sun the dust caked on his face, itching, stinging, burning.

  18. But Olsen was smiling through his dust-caked face.

  19. If he washed at all it left no impression on the caked corrugations of his smiling countenance.

  20. The slanted storm tossed at their feet The frost-nipped Autumn leaves; The park's high pines were caked with sleet And ice-spears armed the eaves.

  21. And the second team was fagged and caked with frozen lather.

  22. Hungrily her gaze went from open shirt to caked boots, from steady hands to clear eyes which made her own eyes shy.

  23. The travelling was mostly done on the seat of my trousers, which consequently became caked with mud and glacial loam.

  24. Here, look at the back of my trousers, caked three inches deep in mud.

  25. The airman who had just arrived went to a sink, washed the caked blood from his face and tied it up with a first-aid bandage.

  26. Suddenly her heart leaped with fright; a man stepped cautiously out of the woods into the road; another, dressed in leather, with dry blood caked on his face, followed.

  27. One arm only he sported, from the shoulder of which was suspended a small and tattered bundle with the mud caked dry on the outer covering from the last place he had pitched his doss.

  28. Disappointment followed disappointment as Phil and Dave pursued their task.

  29. The cap, the leather leggins all caked with mud--I couldn't see it all plainer if he stood in this very room!

  30. Wouldn't I like to feel my shovel scrape something hard, and see my hand pull out a wad of bank notes all caked with woods dirt?

  31. The long snake was covered with seashell rubble and bristling with foraminifera; a crust of caked gravel protected it from any mollusks that might bore into it.

  32. At this location, in three or four fathoms of water between the Paeu and Vana reefs, there lay some anchors, cannons, and ingots of iron and lead, all caked with limestone concretions.

  33. To be so caked with the limestone of these waters, this wreckage must have spent many a year on the ocean floor.

  34. Four mud-caked cars stood in the driveway and chauffeurs in their shirt sleeves hurried in and out the building, shouting to one another and carrying in their hands grimy rags and cans of oil.

  35. He was not in the least interested in the mud-caked car.

  36. Round pebbles in pudding-stone have been formed in brook beds and deposited on beaches where they have become caked in mud and finally consolidated into rock.

  37. It is caked into great clods which crumble before planting time.

  38. So exhausted was he that he had not the strength nor energy to spit forth the alkali with which his fall had caked his open mouth.

  39. Both men were so powdered and caked with alkali that their features were indistinguishable.

  40. The red or blue shirt, the nondescript hat, and the high, mud-caked boots of the miner preponderated.

  41. A small, battered-looking car, grayed and caked with white alkali dust, glided alongside, and from under its swaying and disreputable top emerged someone I knew.

  42. Hume unbound a small bundle, and produced a packet of meal, of which she grasped a handful and laid it on the wound, pressing it with her hand till the oozing blood caked it into an impervious plaster.

  43. Mile after mile they went, kicking up the dust, which stained their clothing red and caked on their hands and faces, until their eyes glared as if from masks.

  44. I was mud and muck from head to foot and my hands were caked with clay, but that did not matter.

  45. He was disgusted to find that they were caked with dried blood, and a feeling almost akin to nausea shook his frame.

  46. Moira stirred a little, and I saw in one hasty glance that her wet hair was streaming about her face and her saturated dress was caked with black mud.

  47. London stands where the mammoth Caked shag flanks with slime-- And what are our lives that inherit The treasures of all time?


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clotted; coarse; congealed; curdled; jellied; lumpish; lumpy; thickened