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Example sentences for "chine"

Lexicographically close words:
chinaware; chinch; chinchilla; chinchillas; chinchona; chinensis; chines; chinesische; chiney; chink
  1. The bones and the joints of the chine great and hard like the chine of a hart.

  2. And all the deer's necks are the hunters, and one shoulder and the chine is his that undoeth the deer, and the other shoulder is the forester's or the parker's fee that keepeth the bailie that is hunted.

  3. And if his chine be a little high it is better than if it were flat.

  4. And some time he rubs his snout and his head higher than he is, but a man may well perceive which is of the chine and which is of the head.

  5. Up and to my office preparing things, by and by we met and sat Mr. Coventry and I till noon, and then I took him to dine with me, I having a wild goose roasted, and a cold chine of beef and a barrel of oysters.

  6. I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.

  7. So Ulysses gives Demodochus one-half of the “chine of beef” with which he is served.

  8. It was an officer named La Plante, taken at La Chine three years before.

  9. Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle.

  10. All through the afternoon the chine of these hills closed the landscape; purpled at times by passing clouds, at times lit up by sun-rays that defined every bush and seam on the slopes.

  11. And from his window he sat and watched them disappear, appear again in the chine of the road, vanish, and emerge once more for a minute clear on the outline of the Down.

  12. VIII IDYLL ON GRASS When those two young Forsytes emerged from the chine lane, and set their faces east toward the sun, there was not a cloud in heaven, and the Downs were dewy.

  13. This night Mr. Gauden sent me a great chine of beef and half a dozen of tongues.

  14. We had a lovely chine of beef and other good things very complete and drank a great deal of wine, and her daughter played after dinner upon the virginals, [All instruments of the harpsichord and spinet kind were styled virginals.

  15. This charming lane leads from Shanklin Chine direct to the Landslip.

  16. About half-way through the Chine the ravine is spanned by an arched Stone Bridge which, in conjunction with the steep banks with trees and ferns, makes a fine pictorial effect.

  17. A wide stretch of sand from the foot of the Chine to the fine cliffs of lower Greensand supplies a playground for multitudes of happy children.

  18. Close to the head of the Chine and within two minutes' walk of the Old Village it forms a beautiful shady retreat on a summer day.

  19. The party of fifty-two went by road to La Chine and embarked above St. Louis Rapids on the governor's barque and thirteen birch bark canoes.

  20. The failure of his expedition to discover La Chine was commemorated in derision by the wags of Montreal who henceforth dubbed his seigneury of St. Sulpice, as that of "La Chine.

  21. He said, he would not presume to mention his love to my mother, though Lady Grimston pressed him to it (it was like her), till he had first declared himself to me.

  22. The jointure which had been settled on her, he allowed her for a separate maintenance.

  23. With the care which I have always bestowed upon my costumes, I ordered an elaborate blue crepe-de-Chine evening gown, to be worn with pearls and diamonds.

  24. A chine of bief, chine of venison, chine of mutton, chine of veal, chine of pork, supported by 4 men.

  25. A little uneasy I seated myself on the low couch covered with crepe de Chine and stretched myself full length, and was at once bathed in a delicious odor of mignonette.

  26. In reply to a question of mine, he pointed to a couch covered with creamy crepe de Chine with white embroidery, beneath a large shrub of unknown variety at the foot of which was a circular bed of mignonette.

  27. My wife and I dined upon a chine of beef at Sir W.

  28. Chine should always be parboiled and stewed before roasting, to take away the gross taste which the melted fat frying from it gives.

  29. For the chine and ribs a very light sprinkling of salt will suffice.

  30. The chine and ham of a hog are nice, corned like beef.

  31. Cut the chine in three pieces; the large end must be about a foot long, the remainder cut in half.

  32. Batten at dinner with some friends upon a good chine of beef, on which I ate heartily, I being very hungry.

  33. In flesh days, half a chine of mutton, or a chine of beef boiled, (p.

  34. So spake he, and took and set before them the fat ox-chine roasted, which they had given him as his own mess by way of honour.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bilge; blister; blob; bone; boss; bow; bubble; bulb; bulge; bump; bunch; button; chine; clump; col; condyle; crest; ear; flange; flap; gall; gnarl; handle; hill; horseback; hump; hunch; knob; knot; lip; loop; lump; mole; mountain; nubbin; peg; rib; ridge; ring; saddle; shoulder; spine; stud; style; tubercle; vesicle; wale; wart; welt