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Example sentences for "beans"

Lexicographically close words:
beams; beamy; bean; beand; beanes; beanstalk; beant; bear; bearable; bearberry
  1. The plate being hollow and glazed was not a fair field for the jumpers--they could not escape; and in about half a minute eight or ten beans were having a rough and tumble.

  2. The worm objected to too much heat and if the beans were placed in the sun or near the fire the weird astonishing jumping would commence.

  3. He has the beans in the bag, Ma," they cried.

  4. These beans grow on a wild vine, and are very poisonous.

  5. They were so amazed at her courage that they let her pass, and she went and hid the beans in her house.

  6. However, let her sit down between Yves and myself and let them bring her those iced beans she loves so much; and we will take the jolly little mousko on our knees and cram him with sugar and sweetmeats to his heart's content.

  7. Our mousmes order for themselves great bowls of candied beans mixed with hail--real hailstones, such as we might pick up after a hailstorm in March.

  8. Last night, at supper, I was an-hungered and cleaned with my fingers a dish of beef and beans in which she meant to have a share.

  9. The cottages of Claes and Katheline touched, that of Claes set back with a little garden in front, Katheline's had a patch of ground planted with beans giving upon the street.

  10. That sack of beans squatting so snugly in the corner, does it prophesy famine?

  11. Soetkin stayed in the cottage alone, dressing in every possible way the beans that were their daily fare, in order to liven her man's appetite.

  12. Now, it seems to me his eating beans with a knife is more suspicious.

  13. He ate beans with a knife, made three secret visits to old Mombi, and limped slightly on his left foot.

  14. When the muleteer, a little later, sauntered through the garden, Tia Marta was sitting on the bench, shelling the beans for dinner.

  15. You are just in time to help us finish up these beans and pork.

  16. This food he at once laid down on the cloth, which he had spread out on Bud's table, and bade the boys help themselves, at the same time and without any further invitation helping himself to the beans and pork.

  17. Hangtown before for six months; and nobody knows how good these things look and taste, until they have been without even a smell of them for some months, and living on a steady diet of salt pork and beans and man-made bread.

  18. Knowing that Kink had a weakness for strong coffee that was simply a hinge in him, I pounded up about a quart of coffee beans in the corner of a blanket and boiled out a South American liquid that was nothing but the real Arbuckle mud.

  19. Next noon I was parching some coffee-beans in the frying-pan, when I heard hoofs down the gully back of me.

  20. Beans or counters are usually played for.

  21. The lamb is made of a large bean and a small one, with legs of pins; the beans must be soaked before setting in the pins.

  22. July, 1298, the men, being reduced to great extremities for provisions, were fain to subsist on the pease and beans which they gathered in the fields.

  23. And if they've a mind to present him with a bag of beans now and then, whose business is it?

  24. They brought cocoa-beans in caravans and boatloads for a while, and they said it was many years since they'd had such a harvest, or such a tremblor, and Himself was a great magician.

  25. He's filling up on the beans I was expecting to get myself.

  26. Jimmie, and he was away in a second, attacking the great dish of pork and beans which stood on the table in the cookroom.

  27. HOW THE SEEDS COME UP Plant a few seeds of corn, beans and garden peas in boxes or tumblers each day for several days in succession.

  28. The beans in both bottles were soaked 24 hours, and then were put into dry bottles Bottle A contained sufficient air to start the few seeds.

  29. Fill the box nearly full of moist soil and plant seeds of corn and beans and peas at depths of one-quarter inch, one inch, two inches, three inches, and four inches.

  30. The green pods are used as string beans or snaps.

  31. Then put seeds of corn, beans and garden peas to soak.

  32. If any of the deeper beans do get up, the seed-leaves will probably be broken off and the little plant will starve and be dwarfed.

  33. Experiment to see if this is true by planting slips of willow, or geranium, or by planting corn or beans in a glass tumbler of soil, or in a box having a glass side, placing the seeds close to the glass; then watch and see what the seed does.

  34. The deep-planted beans will make a strong effort but will not succeed in forcing their way to the surface because they are not able to lift the large seed-leaves through so much soil, and will finally give up the struggle.

  35. Plant some beans in a pot or box of soil and as soon as they come up cut the seed-leaves from some of them and watch their growth for several days.

  36. Put seeds of corn, garden peas, and beans (about a handful of each) to soak in bottles or tumblers of water.

  37. Plant seeds of corn and beans in each of two tumblers; set one out of doors in a cold place and keep the other in a warm place in the house.

  38. The beans in bottle A were soaked 2 hours, those in bottle B were soaked 24 hours.

  39. I was not in the least surprised when one of the four beans fell to mademoiselle's lot; I would have been surprised if it had not.

  40. It will be cut to-morrow night at the governor's ball, and the four maidens who receive the slices with the beans will be the queens of the ball.

  41. Little Brother was at first very happy because he had with him the things he loved best: a discarded bathing shoe, a bottle of hard brown beans and an old cream whipper, that made the most delectable noises as one turned it about.

  42. The previous winter beans brought one dollar a pound, and butter two and a half dollars a roll.

  43. There were no beans and no table, of course, but that was Pete's facetious way of putting it.

  44. We'd have had beans this morning if I hadn't shook dice with him last night.

  45. The other was a younger man, and in this moment of lapsing consciousness it struck Roscoe as strange that he should be clutching a can of beans between his hands.

  46. The bearded man was turning out the can of beans he had won from Scotty.

  47. Sheep prefer beans to almost any other grain; but neither beans nor peas are so fattening as some other grains, and are used most advantageously along with them.

  48. The large kernels of corn and grain, of beans and peas, and even of the lupines were considered by Darwin and others to be unable to cope with natural conditions of life.

  49. In a hundred thousand beans the smallest one and the largest one may be expected to differ more widely from one another than in a few hundred beans of the same sample.

  50. It is clear that by this method the height to which beans fill the glasses is approximately a measure of their number.

  51. In the main it is always the same as the line shown by the measurements of beans and seeds.

  52. At first glance it exhibits a form quite analogous to the curves of fluctuating variability, obtained by the measurements of beans and in other instances.

  53. Some varieties of beans have spotted seeds, and among a lot of them one may be sure to find some purely red ones.

  54. Fractions of millimeters are neglected, and the beans, after having been measured, are thrown into cylindrical glasses of the same width, each glass receiving only beans of equal length.

  55. As an example we take ordinary beans and select them according to their size.

  56. Coconuts, bananas, and vanilla beans are the main crops and make up two-thirds of exports.

  57. Only subsistence farming - corn and beans - exists on the Caicos Islands, so that most foods, as well as nonfood products, must be imported.

  58. When very young, beans are sometimes served whole: thus dressed, their colour and flavour are much better preserved, but the more general way of sending them to table is to cut them into thin strips.

  59. Fry the fowl in the butter until of a nice brown, and dish the pieces on French beans boiled, and afterwards simmered for a minute or two in butter.

  60. Have ready a pint of haricot beans well boiled and drained; put them with the onions and gravy, mix all well together, and serve very hot.

  61. Cut and boil the beans by the preceding recipe, and when tender, put them into a stewpan, and shake over the fire, to dry away the moisture from the beans.

  62. When served alone, young and tender broad beans or green peas are the usual accompaniments.

  63. It is usually served with the beans laid round, and the parsley and butter in a tureen.

  64. If the water should boil away, replenish it with a little more cold, which makes the skin of the beans tender.

  65. Boil the celery and beans separately until tender, and cut the celery into pieces about 2 inches long.

  66. Shake the beans about for a minute or two, and serve: do not stir them with a spoon, for fear of breaking them to pieces.

  67. Then there were to be butter beans out of the cottage garden, and sliced cucumbers from the green-grocer's because Mrs. Crane had confessed to a fondness for cucumbers.

  68. They tomahawk all my dolls when they play Indian, shoot them with beans when they play soldiers, and drown them all when they play shipwreck.

  69. Later, the male portion stuffed its nightshirts into trousers, pulled on boots, and gathered three deep around Loudon and Scotty while the two devoured cold beef and beans in the dining room of the hotel.

  70. But on the Friday, as soon as Uruguay had apologized, the gentlemen who had just sold the Haricot Beans hurried out to buy Consols, as being quite safe again now that there was no more chance of war.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bean; cabbage; greens; potato; produce; rhubarb; tater; tomato; vegetable