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Example sentences for "jar"

Lexicographically close words:
japanned; japanning; jape; japers; japonica; jardiniere; jardins; jargon; jargonelle; jargons
  1. Neath the green turf, lay me low, Where the sweet spring flowers may nod, In dews which wet my brow.

  2. This latter desire was on the eve of consummation, at the period under consideration.

  3. In response to a guttural inarticulate muttering by the black giant, a second Nubian, of scarcely lesser dimensions, emerged from the dungeon with a jar of water.

  4. I thought it was even as he said; and none but myself had fallen into sudden dissolution, but that everything slippery is not a pancake, and the jar that is struck may yet escape unbroken.

  5. But anyone who possesses the old-fashioned "beef-tea" jar needs nothing else.

  6. If it is necessary to use a gas ring, turn very low and stand jar on an asbestos mat.

  7. Put the treacle and butter (or nutter) into a jar and put into a warm oven until the butter is dissolved.

  8. Put the lentils, water, and leeks, finely shredded, into a covered jar or basin.

  9. The water should be distilled, if possible, and the cooking done in a large earthenware jar or casserole.

  10. Richard clapped the door to after him with a jar that shook the house, and shot the bolt viciously.

  11. Alvin Mead clapped to the door with a great jar and locked it.

  12. The long, curling skins fell in a large stone jar standing on a clean paper, spread on the floor.

  13. He had mechanically turned the cranberry jar upside down and taken from the bottom, carefully wrapped in white paper, fifty dollars.

  14. The little busy-body now went to work tasting the soup in each jar by turns; but she found that in the smallest jar was the nicest to her taste.

  15. While she was indulging this silly whim, out came the rush-bottom of the chair, and she and the soup jar rolled on the floor.

  16. The “box” of Pandora was in reality a large jar of this kind, as we learn from Hesiod.

  17. German Schnabelkanne), derived from Thera; a squat jar or pyxis, with three small handles (cf.

  18. A plain jar of late date, from Halikarnassos, full of calcined bones, is in the Terracotta Room of the B.

  19. The word is used by Plutarch for the jar in which the stork offered entertainment to the fox[556]; it frequently appears in the Latin form lagena (see Chapter XXI.

  20. Two new varieties are a sort of alabastron without a handle but with flat base, and a jar with a handle over the mouth.

  21. A sort of cream-jug is decorated with water-plant patterns; a cylindrical jar with oblique wreaths; and a dish with seaweed.

  22. It is a cylindrical jar or box (pyxis), with cover, decorated round the sides and on the top.

  23. A new form is that known as the lekane, a jar for holding sweetmeats; it has vertical handles and a cover of elaborate form, often surmounted by a small vase.

  24. See, I'll put these dirty old gloves in this nice Mason jar of clean gasoline, and let 'em soak awhile.

  25. I opened a jar of spiced peaches last evening for dinner, and what do you think!

  26. Finally I decided to send him a box containing a jar of spiced peaches, a jar of Russian dressing, a little round fruit cake, and a box of fudge.

  27. I ground up the dry bread that Aunt Bettina keeps in the jar by the stove.

  28. And he took a glass jar from its wrappings.

  29. I'll put it in this little Mason jar and shake it.

  30. I took some covers from baking powder cans, and some Mason jar covers, and some pie tins, and chalked the sides well with common school crayon.

  31. We'll use what we need tonight, put the jar away in the ice-box, and the next time we can give it another good shaking before we use it.

  32. Let one imagine Galicia as a big stone jar with a narrow neck lying on the table before him, neck pointing toward the left hand, and he will obtain an approximately accurate idea of the topographical conditions.

  33. That side of the jar resting on the table represents the Carpathian range, solid indeed, but with numerous openings: these are the passes.

  34. From the lower or southern shoulder of the jar the Third Austro-Hungarian Army pushes forward inside, supported on its right by Boehm-Ermolli, who had been just inside a long time, but could get no farther.

  35. Lectures in Cans At this place the lecturer exhibits a glass jar more than half-filled with small white beans and a few walnuts.

  36. Kings and Queens of Destiny The objects in that jar cannot change their size.

  37. Here is a glass jar and inside of it you see two sizes of objects--a lot of little white beans and some walnuts.

  38. Good Luck" and "Bad Luck" This jar tells me so much about luck.

  39. I believe if I were so fortunate or unfortunate as to have a number of people working for me, I would have a jar in my office filled with various sizes of objects.

  40. Don Joseph was frightened, for the fox told his wife everything; so he took an earthen jar and threw it at the fox's head, and so got rid of her.

  41. She replied: "I have nothing but a jar of oil, unfortunately for me!

  42. Since you will not give me the money, I will show you who I am;" and he borrowed a mattock, and struck the statue until he overthrew it, and inside of it he found a jar of money.

  43. So the queen proclaimed that she had a jar of oil, and that all could come and take some.

  44. Pick a feather from the bird's wing, dip it into a jar you will find there, and anoint all the statues.

  45. Make ready a frying pan, and have at hand a jar for holding fat standing on a plate.

  46. Notice the bin for flour, and the inverted jar for sugar, both with an opening at the bottom.

  47. Pieces left on butter plates if clean should be scraped into a wide-mouthed jar and kept for cooking.

  48. It may then be wrapped in oiled paper or put into a covered bowl or fruit jar and kept until wanted.

  49. In the tropics when ice is lacking, water is hung in porous jars in the breeze, and the temperature of the water in the jar is reduced.

  50. Listless is the air in an empty room, just swelling the curtain; the flowers in the jar shift.

  51. That jar embedded in the hot embers contains sassafras tea, an aromatic beverage, in which the squaws delight when they are so fortunate as to procure a supply.

  52. The poor thing's lips were black and parched with pain and thirst; she turned her eyes piteously from my face to the water jar as if to implore a draught.

  53. I was thinking of that Indian jar all the time.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jar" 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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