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Example sentences for "creel"

Lexicographically close words:
creed; creeds; creek; creeke; creekes; creels; creen; creep; creepe; creeper
  1. The ground color of the two specimens from Creel is black with little or no trace of brown, and the rings are white.

  2. The stomachs of both specimens from Creel contained earthworms.

  3. He went off with my fish and creel toward the river, singing, and I flattered myself on having made a partial convert.

  4. Joshua received the creel and examined its contents.

  5. The time to fish this water when a full creel is desired quickly is when there is a slight breeze, just sufficient force in the summer air to caress the surface into a gentle ripple.

  6. Steve, frowning; "gone and lost my trout creel in some mud bed, and can't find it again?

  7. One minute the creel had been here in full view, and when he looked again, lo and behold, it was gone!

  8. Finally he knew that the creel would not hold many more of those big "saddles," and accordingly Toby promised himself that he would surely stop when he had taken just five, in addition to those already bagged.

  9. He pulled out of his creel a seven-inch burnie and laid it with pomp on the rocks.

  10. Well, her husband was so glad, he sent her with another creel the next day; but faith!

  11. He couldn't bear to see her tears, so he bought a creel of earthenware, and sent her to the market to sell them.

  12. The last person to leave the wharf was a young man with a creel of fish on his back.

  13. He nodded cheerfully, and took his creel and rod from the passage, Mrs Sarson hurrying to the window, and watching till he was out of sight, "Ah!

  14. A small creel or basket is prepared for the occasion, into which they put some stones; the young men carry it alternately, and allow themselves to be caught by the maidens, who have a kiss when they succeed.

  15. After a great deal of innocent mirth and pleasantry, the creel falls at length to the young husband's share, who is obliged generally to carry it for a long time, none of the young women having compassion upon him.

  16. Nor did Lieutenant Creel leave the wards of the government at once.

  17. General Creel on his own request was highly complimented by the governor for his distinguished services, and retired with the rank of major general as provided by law.

  18. And Jon threw first his rod, then his creel filled with fish.

  19. Finest creel this year, sir," said the steward, admiringly.

  20. Then, lighting a pipe, he reslung the heavy creel across his back and started up the darkening path.

  21. A bonnie lass for a carriage and pair," thought Janet Binnie; "but whatever will she do with the creel and the nets?

  22. I had better by far lift the creel to my shoulders again.

  23. Janet began seriously to think of lifting the creel to her shoulders again, and crying "fresh fish" in Largo streets.

  24. He obligingly opened his creel and displayed half a dozen long, slim trout.

  25. I've a creel full of provisions, and I am sufficiently clad, and I hate to be disturbed and I am never grateful to people who try to be good to me.

  26. At that moment Ten-teh's wife saw that he carried something beyond his creel and discovering the man-child she cried out with delight, pouring forth a torrent of inquiries and striving to possess it.

  27. To the starving the taste of a grain of corn is more satisfying than the thought of a roasted ox, but as many years must pass as this creel now holds fish before the little one can disengage a catch or handle the pole.

  28. Donald M'Rae from Cove was out on the hill for a creel of peats and saw the 'Glenelg' loosing some of her canvas after going out of Loch Ewe.

  29. Char may be taken by the angler, and possibly may be thrown into the creel without the captor noticing the red belly which is the chief distinction between the char and the trout.

  30. I will not raise a laugh at your expense by describing your present smoky dens, and the hole in the roof with sometimes an old creel stuck on it in imitation of a chimney.

  31. Adam, with his creel over his shoulder, came up as usual with his slow, lumbering tread, and Margaret was too much interested in the trout not to cross the road to look at them.

  32. And another man--one Gallagher--fell off the top of a creel of turf in the same place and lost his life.

  33. That might be so indeed; and what call has a man that has drink taken to go travel upon top of a creel of turf?

  34. Mr. Molesworth rested his creel on the low hedge above one of these sheets of blue, and with the music of the stream in his ears began to unpack Sir Warwick Moyle's fishing-rod.

  35. Mr. Molesworth slung the creel over his shoulder, picked up the rod, and stepped out beyond the station gateway upon the road.

  36. Now that rod and that creel (and the fly-book within it) have since been restored to Sir Warwick Moyle.

  37. The creel had a luggage-label tied to it, and on the label was written 'Sir W.

  38. I spoke some pages back of the Westchester County Despair Association, which was founded by George Creel and which has a large membership in our immediate section.

  39. We sent word to George Creel to rush us application blanks for membership in his Despair Association.

  40. This is your doing," said Ralph quietly, as he threw down his rod, and passed the strap of his creel over his head, to swing it after.

  41. The man picked up the pieces, and Tom quietly took up the creel from where it lay, half hidden by a tuft of fern fronds, to begin moving off with the trout.

  42. In fact the grayling had risen freely to the natural fly he had softly thrown, and his creel had grown heavier till well on in the afternoon, when he had started back with his load.

  43. I did not expect that," for he found that shoes, hose, and creel were safe.

  44. Then, as he struggled up, angry and threatening, the lad snatched the creel from his hands.

  45. In his creel were a dozen trout, for the speckled beauties had been rising to the fly that skipped across the top of the riffles as naturally as life.

  46. Many a time she had fished the river in waders and brought back with her to the ranch a creel full of trout.

  47. By the English system of dry doubling the yarn from the creel may be treated, on its way to the spindle, in various ways to obtain the desired tension.

  48. Thus: each thread from a creel is drawn over a tension rod to two freely mounted pulleys, having parallel grooves cut in their surfaces and axes in the same horizontal plane.

  49. The folded material is placed in a creel and led through the rollers to the spindles to be twisted in a wet or dry condition.

  50. Between the creel and the spindles all the strands are kept equally tense by drawing them over flannel-covered boards and under porcelain weights.

  51. The gentleman who spoke in this short way came out of the porch, with a pipe in his hand and a large fishing-creel swinging under his left arm.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "creel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.