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Example sentences for "rick"

Lexicographically close words:
richest; richlie; richly; richness; richt; rickets; ricketty; rickety; ricks; ricksha
  1. The other four leaped into the hay-rick and fell on Jerry.

  2. He let the team go their own gait, and took it easy in the rick on a couple of horse blankets.

  3. That was a mighty fine thing to do, Rick Dale!

  4. That's a terrible lot of money, Rick Dale, and you know it as well as I do.

  5. His name is Rick Dale, and I am trying hard to be just like him.

  6. I tell you, Rick Dale, that was a close shave," said Bonny.

  7. I say you are a trump, and if you'll only work that racket for us, I'll share half the money with you that I'm to get from Rick as soon as we reach San Francisco.

  8. Gentlemen, I assure you that but for Rick Dale I should have had the perishing contract all in my own hands.

  9. Rick Dale, I'd undertake to climb to the moon on those terms.

  10. I guess you are right, Rick Dale," laughed Bonny.

  11. I tell you what it is, Rick Dale, I've learned something about mountains this day, and now I know that they are the grandest things in all creation.

  12. Barby's voice said sternly, "Is that you, Rick Brant?

  13. Rick enjoyed the feeling of history, of a definite past.

  14. Rick had to agree that it wouldn't make much sense to park the vehicle any farther away than the spot they had selected from which to watch.

  15. They passed the Sky Wagon and its protecting alarm system, and Rick wondered humorously to himself if the alarm would warn of spirits or only of humans.

  16. The Sky Wagon was over the Miller farm in a very short time, but before landing Rick made a swing of the area.

  17. Rick banked the Sky Wagon onto a new course, then settled down to locate the landmarks Barby and Jan had noted on the road map enclosed with their letter.

  18. As Rick rang the bell, he yelled, "Well, come on in!

  19. Chemicals can produce a mist," Rick pointed out, "without leaving a visible trace.

  20. Rick studied the scene, searching for anything offbeat, any anomaly.

  21. Scotty pointed to the three sets of tracks, and put his own feet in one set, while Rick did the same with another set.

  22. Rick yelled suddenly, and jumped away from a slide of rock.

  23. Rick had a feeling that they were wasting time.

  24. Rick felt with horror a thin, icy tendril curl around his face, and he heard a gentle bubbling sound, like phantom laughter.

  25. Rick fielded a can of tomatoes Scotty tossed at him and put it on the canned-goods shelf.

  26. It is a rick that burns; And a strange thing I'll count it if the rick Be not old Huff's.

  27. She went away; and her breast was heaving, like a rick of under-carried hay.

  28. The foremost of them set his torch to the rick within a yard of me, and smoke concealing me from him.

  29. Therefore I was not content to abide within the house, or go the rounds with the troopers; but betook myself to the rick yard, knowing that the Doones were likely to begin their onset there.

  30. For they had a pleasant custom, when they visited farm-houses, of lighting themselves towards picking up anything they wanted, or stabbing the inhabitants, by first creating a blaze in the rick yard.

  31. Here was the peat-rick that hid my dinner, when I could not go home for it, and there was the bush with the thyme growing round it, where Annie had found a great swarm of our bees.

  32. I have come to tell you that I am the person who set fire to your rick the other night.

  33. The rick and the ploughman are advancing to a juxtaposition.

  34. And I shud like to stick a Lucifer in his rick some dry windy night.

  35. The burning of a rick is an act of vengeance, and a ploughman out of employ is a vengeful animal.

  36. Varmer Bollop, t'other day, has's rick burnt down.

  37. I have been obliged to order him not to call me Ricky for he stops short at Rick so that everybody knows what he means.

  38. Given a ploughman out of employ, and a rick burnt.

  39. He was asked what time it was he saw the person steal away from the rick and then he began to scratch his head and said supper-time.

  40. Tell me; do you think it easy to get to the rick unperceived?

  41. Rick and Karl always spent a week in the spring at Uncle Budge's.

  42. So next April-fools' Day finding them at Uncle Budge's, Karl and Rick were tiptoeing about very early.

  43. Now Amanda is--" But Aunt Budge's dissertation was cut short by a choking scene, in which Rick pounded his brother with such force on the back that it was a wonder they heard the front door open at all.

  44. One touch of the torch and the dry straw began to crackle; a gust of wind caught the flame and whipped it into energy; it crept up the side of the little rick like a glowing python that wraps its prey in its embrace.

  45. Then he left them in an unknown land; but God was their protector, He brought them back to their harvest and restored their rick of corn, and they made bread and offered to God the first sacrifice.

  46. But not having sickles they tore the corn up by the roots, and having made a rick of it, they slept, expecting to thrash it out and grind it on the morrow.

  47. But Satan fired this rick and reduced their harvest to ashes.

  48. Sixty miles away, thirteen Guernsey cows munched at a rick of fresh hay and chewed contentedly in the moonlight.

  49. A shell burst some forty feet away and a piece of shrapnel about the size of a grape-fruit landed on the floor of the hay-rick between my outspread legs, broke two slats on the floor of the wagon and dropped harmlessly to the ground.

  50. At seven in the evening my boy rescuer and I reached the Lettish front, this time in a hay-rick de luxe, with straw and an old quilt on the slats of the floor.

  51. But he told me to follow him, and a short distance up the road we came upon a peasant driving a crude hay-rick drawn by a single gaunt horse.

  52. A half hour later, in the village, I tried my best, with my still limited Russian vocabulary, to procure another hay-rick to drive me the fourteen versts remaining between me and the Lettish front.

  53. The Lettish officers examined me again, and told me that if I would take a hay-rick and drive twenty-two versts to the Kreisberg station I could take a train at two in the morning that would bring me to Riga early the next afternoon.

  54. Karaiti was accordingly summoned that evening to the Ricks, where Mrs. Rick fell foul of him in words, and Queen Victoria's son assailed him with indignant looks.

  55. And Doctor Rick told me to tell you that he would send some music for his share.

  56. Have you seen the music Doctor Rick sent?

  57. He called the two boys from the science fair, Paul Trueblood and Rick Boardman, and invited them over to the orphanage one afternoon.

  58. The village told how Farmer Blaize, of Belthorpe Farm, had his rick feloniously set fire to; his stables had caught fire, himself had been all but roasted alive in the attempt to rescue his cattle, of which numbers had perished in the flames.

  59. To have his wife and the world thrown at his face, was unendurable to Richard; he associated them somewhat after the manner of the rick and the marriage.

  60. If my father (Rick Donovan-Roe) lived, how delighted he would be to see you.

  61. Rick Tyler looked at her for a moment with a kindling eye.

  62. Meantime Brother Jake Tobin discreetly bent his attention upon the honey and fried chicken on the supper table, and Rick Tyler fumed in silence.

  63. How'd Rick Tyler say he got away from the sher'ff, ennyhow?

  64. I know too much, sence Rick spoke las' night, ter let me set an' fold my hands in peace.

  65. It was a wonderful contrast to the face she had worn when they talked, that day at the spring, of Rick Tyler's escape.

  66. He did not know how far he had been accounted a confidant in the intimacies of the cave when Rick Tyler had found a refuge there.

  67. He said he would be glad enough if Rick Tyler could swear out anything that would benefit the parson, and declared that he believed only Micajah Green's malice could have compassed his incarceration.

  68. The strength of despair had served to make the younger man the blacksmith's equal, and the contest might have terminated differently had Rick Tyler not stumbled on a ledge.

  69. He had reason to be somewhat surprised at hearing Bampfylde assert it was O'Neill who had pulled down the rick of bark.

  70. What was his surprise and consternation, when he beheld his great rick of oak bark levelled to the ground; the pieces of bark were scattered far and wide, some over the close, some over the fields, and some were seen swimming upon the water!

  71. And it was he, was it not, that pulled down, or caused to be pulled down, my rick of oak bark?

  72. How the hay-rick had caught fire nobody knew.

  73. She looked out, and beheld the large hay-rick all in flames.

  74. To his great surprise, Mr. Hill saw his rick of bark rebuilt.

  75. George, who had made up the hay-stack, was most inclined to think that the hay had not been sufficiently dried, and that the rick had heated from this cause.

  76. At last we were forced, on the brow of a hill, to come to a mooring in a fine old ditch, not having even a wall, or a tree, or a rick of peat to shelter us.

  77. Oh, don't be minding Hamish, my lass; he canna pass a rick o' barley but his eyes and mouth water.

  78. Less chance here than on the rick you have deserted.

  79. In another instant, before Jeremiah could recover his feet, the rick had made a revolution and was dancing down the stream, leaving a smell of hay in his nose, and the late tenant of the stack sprawling at his side.

  80. It was, however, difficult in the uncertain light to judge distances, and calculate the speed at which the floating island came on, and the rick struck the hut before Jeremiah was prepared to leap.


  81. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; accumulation; anthill; archives; armory; arsenal; attic; backlog; bank; basement; bay; bin; bookcase; box; budget; cellar; chest; closet; cock; collection; commissary; conservatory; cornucopia; crate; crib; cumulation; cupboard; depository; depot; dock; drawer; drift; dump; dune; embankment; exchequer; haystack; heap; hill; hoard; hold; hutch; inventory; larder; library; locker; lumberyard; magazine; mass; material; materiel; molehill; mound; munitions; pile; plenitude; plenty; provision; pyramid; rack; rations; repertory; repository; reservoir; rick; ruck; shelf; shock; snowdrift; sprain; stack; stock; stockpile; storage; store; storehouse; storeroom; supplies; tank; treasure; treasury; turn; twist; vat; vault; warehouse; wrench