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Example sentences for "gum"

Lexicographically close words:
gulph; gulphs; gulping; gulps; guls; gumbo; gumma; gummata; gummatous; gummed
  1. If the composition become dry during the night, dilute it with more gum water, in which a little saffron has been infused; but take care that the gold solution be sufficiently liquid to flow freely in a pen.

  2. Reduce gum ammoniac into powder, and dissolve it in gum arabic water, to which a little garlic juice has been added.

  3. Then fasten with gum a picture or print, painted on very thin paper, with its face to one of the glasses, and, if you like, you may fix the whole in a frame.

  4. Take some white gum arabic, reduce it to an impalpable powder, in a brass mortar; dissolve it in strong brandy, and add a little common water to render it more liquid.

  5. To make the whole water-tight, gum is abundantly employed.

  6. Smoke ascending in columns from many parts of the woods showed that the country was well inhabited, and the air was fragrant with the strong odour of the gum of cypress and spruce fir.

  7. On this side of the river also we observed a white stunted gum with leaves like that of the apple tree.

  8. I have named Allison's Creek; it has narrow channels and flats, timbered with gum trees, and thickly covered with what is called on Darling Downs oaten grass: At 8.

  9. Gold and silver powder give good results, used either dry or mixed with gum on shells.

  10. On these place a new pot, pour into it some fornis mentioned above, called by the Romans "glossa," otherwise gum arabic.

  11. Gold can also be applied with a brush in the form of powder suspended in liquid gum or spirit varnish.

  12. This was all that could be got, and the spider herself seemed unable to evolve any more; but on killing her and opening her abdomen, plenty of the gum was found in the little silk bags into which it is secreted.

  13. When this Spirit of Wine is come off, pour some fresh on the black gum left in the retort, and distil as before.

  14. Distil Gum Arabic in a retort with degrees of fire.

  15. To fasten it together gum K E M to M E C N, C N F to M E C N and so on the other side.

  16. Cut this out and gum it to the bent edges 1, 2, 3, 4.

  17. Gum a piece of paper on the horse's back, turn up and gum the ends of a paper strip to form loops for shafts to go through.

  18. Now gum the side 7 to 11, bend O toward J; gum N to O and M to O and cut off the portion of O that projects beyond M and N.

  19. To strengthen the settee gum a piece of paper over N O and M L.

  20. Gum K to A (outside) and L forms one lid; gum H to D and M forms the other lid.

  21. Cut two squares of paper, one smaller than the other, gum the smaller one A to the flanges at the top of the cylinder; colour B blue and gum it to the flanges at the bottom.

  22. Bend up B C E F and A D H G and gum them to the flanges of A J B and D K C; gum flange F O to A D H G.

  23. For back legs of settee use portion K L M H; gum K to F and H to C (Fig.

  24. A simpler way of fastening the tower together is to gum O to J, M L and N K standing upright as in Fig.

  25. Now gum the other wheel to the reel and to the flanges of the paper.

  26. The children could cut and gum to one box a piece of cardboard A B.

  27. Now gum the other two triangles to the bottom of the gondola.

  28. The irritating toxins deposited on the teeth cause inflammation of the tissues at the gum margins.

  29. DON'T= put hands or pencils in the mouth, or any candy or | | chewing gum other persons have used.

  30. Take two ounces of clear Gum Arabic, one and one-half ounces of fine Starch and one-half ounce of White Sugar.

  31. This is made by soaking Isinglass in water until it is soft, and then dissolving it in Proof Spirits; add to this a little Gum Ammoniac or Galbonam or Mastic, both dissolved in as little Alcohol as possible.

  32. One gallon Alcohol, one ounce Tincture Cayenne, two ounces Tincture Gum Camphor, two ounces Tincture Ammonia, one-half ounce Chloroform.

  33. White of Egg, or a solution of Glue and a strong Gum Water are good cements.

  34. Take a small piece of Potash and let it stand in the open air until it slacks, then thicken it to a paste with pulverized Gum Arabic, which prevents it from spreading where it is not wanted.

  35. Alcohol 98 per cent one pint, Gum Copal and Shellac of each one ounce, Dragon's Blood.

  36. Pure Carmine, twelve grains, Water of Ammonia three ounces, dissolve, then add Powdered Gum eighteen grains.

  37. Brazil Wood two ounces, Muriate of Tin one-half drachm, Gum Arabic one drachm.

  38. This is best made by soaking pulverized Gum Shellac in ten times its weight of strong Ammonia, when a slimy mass is obtained, which in three or four weeks will become liquid without the use of hot water.

  39. Confectioners' sugar with the white of eggs and a small amount of dissolved Gum Arabic in water.

  40. To those who do not know the delightful hill station of Southern India let me explain that Pietermaritzburg stands in a basin of smooth rolling downs, broken frequently by forests of fir and blue gum trees.

  41. The stations, which occur every four or five miles, are hamlets consisting of half a dozen corrugated iron houses, and perhaps a score of blue gum trees.

  42. Boil some nut-galls in aqua fortis, and add to the infusion some gum Arabic and a little sulphuric acid.

  43. Tons of paraffine are manufactured yearly into chewing gum and chewed harmlessly by thousands.

  44. The gum prevents the colour shifting during the immersion, but does not prevent the glaze adhering.

  45. The colours have a clay carrier and are applied with a gum medium.

  46. The gum must be used sparingly; any excess will cause peeling and prevent the adhesion of the glaze.

  47. The slave trade has ceased, but feathers, gum and ivory still constitute the chief exports of the country.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adhesive; battledore; bind; bite; cement; chew; chocolate; crab; cramp; crimp; ebony; elastic; fudge; fuse; glue; gnash; gnaw; grind; gum; masticate; mouth; mumble; munch; nibble; oak; paste; queer; racket; resin; rubber; ruminate; solder; spring; springboard; stick; tree; weld; wood