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Example sentences for "crisp"

Lexicographically close words:
cris; crisco; crise; crises; crisis; crisped; crisping; crisply; crispness; crispy
  1. Let the cook be careful to fill the iron scantily half full, to bake, as these beautiful waffles to be crisp and tender must have ample space to rise.

  2. When ready to serve spread over it a thick mayonnaise dressing and garnish with slices of beet, cut in shapes, hard boiled egg and parsley; if made in summer a border of crisp lettuce leaves is an additional garnish.

  3. Six tomatoes, one-half cup of mayonnaise dressing, the crisp part of one head of lettuce.

  4. The crisp pasty look so desirable and appetizing comes from this.

  5. The sky was cloudless and the crisp thin air foretold a hot noon.

  6. When they rolled from their blankets in the crisp air of the morning, they were never kept waiting for their coffee, hot bread, and frijoles.

  7. Past rock pools and a great zoo full of animals that stared out of vacant eyes; and everywhere, the seasons changing gently: crisp autumn, cottony summer, windy spring and winters cool and white.

  8. Plenty of sunshine, they said, or crisp evening.

  9. The captain forked out a quantity of crisp bacon upon a tin plate and filled a big granite cup with fragrant coffee, for Charlie West, and from his saddle-bags brought out a bag of hardtack.

  10. His voice sank from the crisp tone of command to a softer note, and his hand for a moment rested affectionately on his chum's shoulder as he continued.

  11. She heard a chirp and a twitter, and when she looked at the bare flower-bed at her left side there he was hopping about and pretending to peck things out of the earth to persuade her that he had not followed her.

  12. Perhaps he'd find you a corner somewhere out o' the way.

  13. On the broad white balustrade Isabelle's great peacock was standing, with his tail fanned to its amazing breadth; two maids, in their crisp black and white, were coming and going with silver and china on their trays.

  14. Perhaps not treachery, exactly, thought Harriet, as the birds, and the asparagus, and the crisp little rolls went the rounds.

  15. Accompanying the letter was a crisp one thousand-dollar bill.

  16. A crisp five-hundred dollar bill dropped from between the folded pages.

  17. The leader threw a crisp question at Lord Farquhar.

  18. Moya drank the coffee and ate the fruit, after which she went out into the crisp Colorado sunlight.

  19. He would have loved to touch the soft flushed cheek, the crisp amber hair clouding the convolutions of the little ears.

  20. His crisp footfalls seemed to print themselves on a heart of lead.

  21. The general colours of it are black and brown, growing to a tolerable length, and very crisp and curly.

  22. Their beards, which are of the same crisp nature as their hair, are, for the most part, worn short.

  23. He would have passed in comic opera anywhere; but the dart of his black eye was keen, his voice crisp and assured.

  24. And one other thing I can tell you, crisp and clear.

  25. The Cardinal was only a yearling, yet his crest flared high, his beard was crisp and black, and he was a very prodigy in size and colouring.

  26. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume of pollen and the crisp fresh odour of unfolding leaves.

  27. How big and black his eyes were, and his beard was almost as long and crisp as his father's.

  28. Its subtle odour was the commingling of myriads of unfolding leaves and crisp plants, upspringing; its pungent perfume was the pollen of catkins.

  29. Behind the camp, and to the north of the spruce thicket, two sounds rose clearly on the crisp air, the slight patter of snowshoes and the rustling and snapping of bushes.

  30. The sleds trailed easily behind them over the patches of crisp snow and glassy ice.

  31. Half an hour later, when the hungry and tired lads sat around the blazing logs appeasing their appetites with crisp venison, and fried potatoes, and crackers, and steaming coffee, they felt that their happiness was complete.

  32. The ground was covered with snow to the depth of half a foot on the crisp December afternoon when the young hunters landed at Katahdin Iron Works--the terminus of the Bangor and Katahdin Iron Works Railroad.

  33. They rose early and after breakfast went out of doors, and there, lying just beside the house, was a heap of clean, crisp straw.

  34. While he worked, Trot ate popcorn and found it crisp and slightly warm, as well as nicely salted and buttered.

  35. It was cold last night, before the snowstorm; but snow, when it falls, is always crisp and warm.

  36. In the first place, she was very pretty when she blushed, having an olive complexion and dark, crisp hair which she wore in two plaits down her back.

  37. She had a good bit of the ten dollars left to slip back in her pocketbook; but she reserved a crisp dollar-bill where it would be handy.

  38. And wrapped in this paper was a crisp twenty-dollar bill!

  39. Cut three or four thin slices of bacon into half-inch pieces and cook until crisp and light colored.

  40. Let the oven do its duty, You'll discover by and by That each wafer is a beauty, When it comes out crisp and dry.

  41. Now place upon crisp lettuce leaves, Or curly water-cress, The golden shapes, and walnuts add, Shorn of their outer dress.

  42. Why shouldn't there be pies with sweet butter-crust crisp and good like mother's, and nice wholesome little puddings?

  43. Overhead, the heavy bell swung out slow, intermitted peals, that thrilled down through all the timbers of the building, and forth upon the crisp autumn air.

  44. Care should specially be taken not to injure their antennae, which, when crisp with egg and breadcrumbs, exquisitely tickle the palate of the gourmet, and provoke him to the liveliest of gastronomic feats.

  45. The crisp air reddened the tips of their ears and patted their backs approvingly.

  46. It was still early in the morning, and Glory loitered about in the crisp September sunshine with an hour of time to "kill.

  47. A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.

  48. No wonder that, looking back over many dangers and many vicissitudes, it is still that evening ride over the short crisp turf of the downs which stands out most clearly in my memory.

  49. So with a crisp order to each of us, he walked with little swift steps across the room, and I saw his square green back and white legs framed for an instant in the doorway.

  50. Only last year I went back there under that strange impulse which leads the old to tread once more with dragging feet the same spots which have sounded to the crisp tread of their youth.

  51. She declined the offer of Mr. Carmyle to drive her to the boarding-house, and started to walk there, hoping that the crisp morning air would effect a cure.

  52. It was a perfect, crisp New York morning, all blue sky and amber sunshine, and even the ash-cans had a stimulating look about them.

  53. But on the eighth day the sun came out, a season of fine crisp December weather arrived and the store was thronged with holiday shoppers.

  54. The window was open; the sweet crisp morning air fanned her temples; the birds were singing in the garden below; and there beside her was the face so like, yet so unlike, the face from which she had parted four years ago.

  55. You have put no idea into my head," replied Phillis, with crisp obstinacy.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crisp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviated; abridged; abrupt; aphoristic; arctic; axiomatic; biting; bitter; bleak; boreal; bracing; brief; brisk; brittle; brusque; caustic; cheering; chilly; clear; clipped; close; coherent; coil; cold; compact; compendious; compressed; concise; condensed; connected; consistent; contracted; cordial; crease; crimp; crisp; crumbly; crystalline; curl; curt; cut; cutting; defined; definite; delicate; direct; distinct; docked; double; elliptic; elliptical; energizing; enfold; exhilarating; explicit; express; fissile; flimsy; flounce; flute; fold; fragile; frail; freezing; fresh; friable; frigid; frill; gather; gelid; glacial; gnomic; icy; inclement; invigorating; keen; kink; kinked; kinky; laconic; limpid; lucid; luminous; nippy; numbing; pellucid; penetrating; perspicuous; piercing; pinching; pithy; plain; plait; plat; platitudinous; pleat; plicate; ply; pointed; proverbial; pruned; pungent; raw; refreshing; reserved; rigorous; rousing; ruff; ruffle; sententious; severe; sharp; shivery; short; shortened; simple; sleety; slushy; snappy; spanking; stimulating; straightforward; succinct; summary; taciturn; terse; tight; tonic; translucent; transparent; trenchant; trim; truncated; tuck; twill; unambiguous; unequivocal; univocal; unmistakable; vulnerable; wintry; zestful