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Example sentences for "batch"

Lexicographically close words:
batailles; bataillon; bataillons; batalla; batayle; batches; bate; bateau; bateaux; bated
  1. It is true that the labor organizer evangelizes the alien workers with his union gospel; but by the time one batch has been welded into a fighting force, another batch is on his hands.

  2. Thus, among the 140 adult larvæ which I bred from the batch of eggs above mentioned, the transition forms were much in the minority.

  3. The pupæ from this batch were divided into three portions:-- A.

  4. There was a very important batch of papers in preparation at that time.

  5. I have said the batch was rather important.

  6. There will be a batch of unbridled 'specials' coming to town in a little while, and these will serve as their headquarters.

  7. The only eggs of this butterfly that I have been able to obtain are the batch figured on Plate 34.

  8. Other caterpillars from the same batch of eggs hibernated and recommenced feeding in the spring, but failed to attain the chrysalis state.

  9. Caterpillars from the first batch of 192 eggs hatched early in May, nineteen days after they were laid.

  10. In fact, in a batch of seedlings nearly every plant may differ from its companions.

  11. If the management is good, the first sowing will be in fruit by the time the third batch of seed is sown, say, by the first week of November, and thenceforward throughout the winter there should be no break in the supply.

  12. Under fair treatment the first batch of plants will come into flower for bedding out in June.

  13. The strain referred to produces fine free-growing specimen plants, and a batch should always be in reserve for cutting.

  14. Their clothes were speedily dried, for the landlady had just finished baking her week's batch of bread, and half an hour in the oven completely dried the clothes.

  15. Nor was the batch that had been given her the first that had been handled.

  16. Each case was numbered, and Eve’s batch began at 293.

  17. The whole batch was returned to Eve in the course of three days, with a laconic type-written statement that the designs had received careful consideration, but had been found to be unsuitable.

  18. It stands in an extremely retired valley, and on our way to it we put up the third batch of gazelles we had started in one day.

  19. On their way back they passed another batch going to their death (R.

  20. The fourth batch of prisoners on August 26th started about 3.

  21. Twenty inhabitants of Ayeneux were massacred in a batch elsewhere.

  22. The third batch “conveyed elsewhere” from Louvain on August 26th consisted of the Garde Civique.

  23. They were the fourth batch of prisoners who had been marched out of Louvain on the previous day.

  24. On the 27th they were marched to Louvain with a batch of prisoners taken from Louvain itself, and were sent on the terrible journey in cattle-trucks to Aix-la-Chapelle.

  25. Sent off your batch of prisoners for trial this morning?

  26. Why, how you have got your batch huddled up together this morning!

  27. Bergeret, “you had only seen a batch of raw recruits filing into the barrack yard, you would no longer think it necessary to be for ever hurling threats of death at these sheep-like creatures in order to maintain discipline among them.

  28. No sooner did a steamer return from the front than she was refilled and sent off again packed to overflowing with a fresh batch of men.

  29. She must try to finish one batch at least, to show him on his return.

  30. After the glucose is dissolved in the batch do not pour out, but add five pounds of the hard factory cream in pieces.

  31. When the batch is cold enough on the stove to handle, place the warm cream lengthwise on the center of it and completely wrap the cream up in it.

  32. Cook a batch of glucose to a light snap, flavor well, pour thin.

  33. Take a batch of the opera cream; when cooked, add the above, stir it in the kettle until it creams, then pan and work it as you do the operas.

  34. Can be made by cutting them fine, scatter them thick over the greased stone, and pour over them a batch of barley square candy.

  35. Stick candy is made precisely the same as peppermint clips, by keeping the batch round, and a second person to twist them and keep them rolling until cold.

  36. Then work into two tablespoons vanilla, line a pan with wax paper, flatten the batch in it, and mark it in squares.

  37. Just as they departed the assistant brigade clerk came to me with a batch of men's leave warrants.

  38. We stuck to the valley, and, passing a dressing station where a batch of walking cases were receiving attention, drew near to the conglomeration of tin huts, broken walls, and tumbled red roofs that stood for Lieramont.

  39. A batch of prisoners had just arrived and were being questioned by an Intelligence officer: youngish men most of them, sallow-skinned, with any arrogance they may have possessed knocked out of them by now.

  40. The adjutant was opening the latest batch of official envelopes from Divisional Artillery.

  41. Ten minutes later the brigade clerk brought me the evening's batch of Divisional messages and routine orders.

  42. Whereupon he said that I should find all those in a batch about the North and South American Coffee House, in Threadneedle Street.

  43. Which means we've got to work a batch of Africans, plain as that, and pay mind they don't get out of hand.

  44. There's a goodly batch of Yoruba, granted, but the rest are everything from Ibo and Ashanti to Mandingo.

  45. As soon as we've all got a batch cured, we'll market it to the Dutchmen.

  46. These small freeholders on the Assembly don't understand this island wasn't settled just so we'd have a batch of five-acre gardens.

  47. I've got a batch of new flintlocks on the Defiance.

  48. This militia of theirs is nothing but a batch of scared planters, who scatter like rabbits the minute they hear a gunshot.

  49. The Subaltern had been a little depressed with this new batch of recruits.

  50. During the retirement from Ctesiphon the last batch of boats to leave Kut just before the siege came in for a good deal of sniping.

  51. Soon after dark I saw a batch of six with an officer step over the parapet into that particularly horrid zone called no-man's-land.

  52. Inside there was a batch of camp followers who had come in from fatigue duty.

  53. And, indeed, though he was not thinking of himself, his stalwart, well-proportioned figure and his handsome head stood out notably from a serried batch of degenerate physiques.

  54. The devilishness of the batch made shooting a tame way of obtaining revenge, and I possessed the same itchiness of the fingers which had prompted Holman to take the wild leap.

  55. Come on, Verslun, the wriggly batch must be straight ahead.

  56. When it came to a game of this sort we would be hopelessly outclassed by a batch that, through assiduous training, slipped along with the ease of serpents.

  57. She felt almost as excited about that batch of butter as if her life depended on it.

  58. She's off for goodness knows how long, and a batch of loaves burning in the oven, and your uncle wanting his tea sent down into the field.

  59. They protested repeatedly against receiving convicts, and their protests were heeded to the extent that for awhile the emigration ceased; but one day a ship appeared in the harbor of Sydney with a fresh batch of convicts.

  60. There is another advantage in hatching eggs by the incubator process, and that is, that when the eggs are taken away the hen proceeds a few weeks later to lay another batch of eggs, which she does not do if she has a family to care for.

  61. Among the supplies taken by each ship there was usually a fresh batch of convicts, and quite regularly convict ships were despatched from England to Australia.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "batch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accumulate; aggregate; amass; amount; array; assemble; assortment; batch; battery; block; body; budget; bulk; bunch; bundle; chunk; clod; clot; clump; cluster; clutch; collect; combine; compile; conglomerate; copse; corral; count; crop; deal; dose; drift; gather; group; grouping; grove; hassock; heap; hunk; join; knot; loaf; lot; lump; make; making; mass; match; measure; mess; mint; mobilize; muster; nugget; number; oodles; pack; packet; pair; parcel; part; partner; peck; pile; platoon; portion; pot; quantity; raft; raise; rally; ration; run; scads; selection; shock; sight; slew; sort; spate; stack; suite; sum; thicket; tuft; wad; wisp