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Example sentences for "ferment"

Lexicographically close words:
ferlie; ferly; ferm; ferma; ferme; fermentable; fermentation; fermentations; fermentative; fermented
  1. What was to be thought of a prime minister who, at such risk to the public peace, tried to turn the ferment to account for the sake of strengthening his tottering government?

  2. Shut up the whole for the space of a day And it will ferment in a riotous way.

  3. This intellectual ferment was the most striking change of all.

  4. But Paris was now in a state of ferment which nothing could immediately appease.

  5. The ferment and alarm are universal, and something must be done; for it is a conflagration in which they must perish, unless it be stopped.

  6. A ferment that was as purposeful as it was mechanical, a ferment symmetrical, geometrical, supremely ordered-- The surging of the Metal Hordes.

  7. To me one of the most interesting aspects of Keats is that in him we have an example of the renaissance going on almost under our own eyes, and that the intellectual ferment was in him kindled by a purely English leaven.

  8. The city was instantly in a ferment of street brawls, as actors in one of which some of the Medici are incidentally named,--the first appearance of that family in history.

  9. October, 1740, occurred, to throw Europe into a new ferment of discord and war.

  10. He added, however, "Nearly all the kingdom is in a boil and consternation; the ferment is as great in the provinces as in Paris itself.

  11. He had found ferment everywhere along the road.

  12. He was ignorant of this ferment in her heart, from not supposing she had heard the words; besides, he was busy over some freshly conceived hopes.

  13. A general restlessness of temper, due in part to the breaking up of the inherited order, in part to the ferment of new ideas and in part to a general relaxing of discipline, began to manifest itself.

  14. In the ferment of that age, it was expedient for the state to scatter a little dust over the angry insects; the convocation was accordingly prorogued in 1717, and has never again sat for any business.

  15. But in this ferment of two jealous and exasperated assemblies, it was highly necessary, as on the former occasion, for the king to interpose by a prorogation for three months.

  16. We hear an echo of the philosophical ferment of the sixteenth century in the Italian Dominican Campanella, and in the Englishman Bacon of Verulam we meet the pioneer of that modern philosophy which had its proper founder in Descartes.

  17. But it had also set up a ferment in the church and in theology which created a wholesome influence for many years.

  18. Imprisonment and exile were vigorously carried out by means of it, yet the revolution and ferment continued to increase.

  19. Now add One yeast cake dissolved in one cupful of water, 80 degrees Fahrenheit Stir well to mix and then let ferment in a warm place for ten hours.

  20. Work to a dough and ferment three and one-quarter hours, then proceed as in the straight dough method.

  21. This potato ferment must be made fresh every eighteen days in winter and every twelve days in summer.

  22. The whole garrison was in a ferment of excitement and hard work.

  23. Before Brigadier Shelton could reach the Balla Hissar, the town had attained such a state of ferment that it was deemed impracticable to penetrate to Sir A.

  24. Bélonowsky, at the Pasteur Institute, show that a lactic ferment isolated from yahourth and described as the Bulgarian bacillus owes its antiseptic powers not only to lactic acid but to another substance which it secretes.

  25. The ferment has never been seen, and we do not know of its actual existence.

  26. It is for that reason that it has been found difficult to preserve the lactic acid ferment for a long time in a living condition.

  27. Cohendy gives it as the direct result of his experiment that the introduction of lactic ferment into the intestine definitely arrests putrefaction.

  28. Bütschli has supposed that the life of cells is maintained by a specific vital ferment which becomes feebler in proportion to the extent of cellular reproduction, but I cannot regard this as more than a pious opinion.

  29. This case of the lactic acid ferment is not unique.

  30. He came to the conclusion that the elimination of meat from the diet was unnecessary, as the particular kind of lactic ferment he employed was extremely active in inhibiting the proteolytic ferments.

  31. All central Italy was still in ferment and partly in open insurrection; the fortresses were still only in course of construction; the way between Etruria and Samnium was not yet completely closed.

  32. The natives of the Malayan Archipelago ferment and drink the sap of the flower stems of the cocoanut.

  33. In that event, I ply the populace With just such word as leavens their whole lump To the right ferment for my purpose.

  34. We may be sure that Voltaire's alert curiosity would interest him profoundly in the lively polemical ferment which this notable contention of Collins's stirred up.

  35. I have before mentioned to you the ferment into which the proceedings at the seance royale of the 23rd had thrown the people.

  36. It is not permitted to ferment more than half a day, because it would not be so liquorish.

  37. The digestive ferment is not quite so active in the cooked fruit as in the uncooked.

  38. Euro Suggestions Vegetables should be used soon after gathering, as they begin to ferment and lose their wholesomeness as well as flavors very shortly.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ferment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
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