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Example sentences for "crude"

Lexicographically close words:
crucifixions; crucifixus; cruciform; crucify; crucifying; crudelis; crudely; crudeness; cruder; crudest
  1. All its members severally obtain for themselves the necessaries of life in their crude states; and severally prepare them for their own uses as well as they can.

  2. In the lowest societies, as in the lowest creatures, the distribution of crude nutriment is by slow gurgitations and regurgitations.

  3. In the one, as in the other, the nutritive materials circulated, are at first crude and simple, gradually become better elaborated and more heterogeneous, and have eventually added to them a new element facilitating the nutritive processes.

  4. I am almost overwhelmed with shame, even now, as I think of that absurd chronicle, with its rash judgments, its crude opinions, and its pretentious decisions.

  5. Was I to remain satisfied with such a crude and one-sided explanation as the notebook afforded, and merely say that the retreating forces were harassed by a strong flank fire from our batteries?

  6. A confusion of these two spaces is sometimes found in crude work and in the comments of people upon genuine works of art.

  7. I fear it would not do for the office boy dispatching a parcel to choose his stamps with a view to colour; to prefer the tender mauve of the sixpenny to the crude scarlet of the penny stamp.

  8. Barbarism means the worship of those externals in their crude and unconquered state.

  9. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they stand.

  10. This is the difference between an experimental philosophy and a crude empiricism.

  11. It indicates not only a gigantic memory, but a glowing mind, which has fused a crude mass of materials into unity.

  12. Kurt cranked up for pursuit, but his crude craft was not built on speed lines, and he saw the distance fast eaten up between him and the frenzied horse.

  13. She realized with what crude intolerance she had attacked the other woman's position, how absolutely with claw and talon she had demolished it.

  14. She was chilled, and raw with the crude astringency of the soap, but she felt cleansed to the marrow of her bones, as though there had been some mystic quality in this lustration in running water, performed under the open sky.

  15. It's astonishing to hear anybody of your crude youth playing Bach at all--and then to hear it played right--and afterwards to hear a modern given his right note.

  16. So facile is his style that it constantly betrays him into crude and extravagant statements.

  17. Such a judgment is harsh and crude in expression and more suitable to the clamour of the Protestant Union than to the dignity of the true historian.

  18. A Cardinal Sin, then, on the whole, may be regarded as a crude novel of a common melodramatic type.

  19. Touchstone's motley was far too glaring, and the crude white of Rosalind's bridal raiment in the last act was absolutely displeasing.

  20. There is nothing crude in it, though it is to a certain degree inexperienced; nothing violent, though it is often strong.

  21. How crude the attempts of man at producing the melodies of life!

  22. A bugler whom some tourists paid for his crude attempts was doing his best (which was none too good) to awake the echoes.

  23. He is driving a horse that is hitched to a crude plow.

  24. We will endeavor to illustrate this in a crude way.

  25. I knew this was rather a crude arrangement for illustrating this very beautiful and interesting part of our subject, but I hoped it would assist me a little in conveying to you the idea I desired to impress upon your minds.

  26. The artist would certainly have chosen rather to be crude than dull; but it is very rarely that a false note occurs, and then most likely it is due to the decay of the brown paint upon which he relied to bring it into tone.

  27. That enables folk to read their Bibles, no doubt; but the volume of crude white light above goes far to kill the colour of the glass.

  28. One tires of crude work, and delights more and more in what is delicate.

  29. Thus subdued and tempered, even crude glass may be turned to beautiful account.

  30. The Italian glass painters often used crude greens and purples, and softened them with brown.

  31. Doubtless those crude conceptions of his were very real to him, convincing and terror-striking.

  32. Much of the harsh purple in Early French mosaic is surely due to the admixture of crude new glass.

  33. Instances of this unpleasant cast of colour are of continual occurrence, but they are never otherwise than crude and plummy in effect.

  34. On the other hand, the really considerable amount of crude white and colour with which the West window has been botched is, so to speak, swallowed up in silvery radiance.

  35. Thus, in broken phrases, he flung his defence at her: a defence improvised, pieced together as he went along, to mask the crude instinctiveness of his act.

  36. It was prodigious, but it was true--she felt nothing, saw nothing, but the crude fact of the opportunity.

  37. Paul Darrow was a young man full of crude seriousness, who, after a youth of struggling work and study in his native northwestern state, had won a scholarship which sent him abroad for a course at the Beaux Arts.

  38. Even the Indians believed in another sphere, in their crude superstitious fashion, and there must be some better place as a reward for the pain here that was not one's own fault.

  39. They bought maple sugar and a kind of crude syrup of the Abenaqui women, who were quite experts in making it.

  40. They are apt to revert to the original belief, crude superstitions.

  41. They may be a little in danger of being roughened by boyish ways and especially by the crude and unique language, almost a dialect in itself, prevalent among schoolboys.

  42. American temperament, to expend, in precocious emancipation and crude attempts at practical realization, the force which is needed to bring their insights to maturity.

  43. Youth has been left to meet these high needs alone, and the prevalence of these crude forms is an indictment of the delinquency of pedagogues in not teaching their pupils to develop and use their intellect properly.

  44. It may be crude and lame in execution, but it will be lofty, perhaps grand; and if it is original in consciousness, it will be in effect.

  45. Rightly to draw the lessons of this age not only saves us from waste ineffable of this rich but crude area of experience, but makes maturity saner and more complete.

  46. But her crude method of expressing it filled him with cold fury.

  47. It was roughly done, and there were glaring faults; but there was something in the crude work that wasn't in the canvas on her easel, and she recognized it.

  48. At present the natives still wash out nuggets by the crude process in use in the time of Ponce de Leon.

  49. Pennsylvania's interest in iron mining and manufactures was represented by the crude product only.

  50. A very beautiful and very comprehensive collection of cut gems and crude gem material was perhaps the most attractive feature of the exhibit.

  51. One of the exhibiting companies showed the mineral in all its stages and processes of manufacture, from the crude ore to the finished product.

  52. Among the crude materials exhibited, coal, the greatest mineral product of the State, was given preeminence.

  53. In the Mines and Metallurgy Building were exhibits of sulphur and salt, crude and refined petroleum, marble, and iron ore, all fresh from the mines of Louisiana.

  54. A handsomely mounted exhibit of crude and refined oils in 200 flasks conveyed a conception of the variety and extent of the oil industry of the State.

  55. This consisted of a pyramid containing cotton-seed hulls, meal linters, crude oil, surrounded by commercial packages of meal and hulls, refined oils and lard compounds manufactured from cotton seed.

  56. An exhibit prepared by the marine biologist illustrated everything connected with fishing in the Ceylon waters, from the crude fish trap of the villager to the latest addition to knowledge regarding the origin of the lustrous oriental pearl.

  57. Other products shown in the Palace of Agriculture were bales of hemp manufactured from New Zealand flax, a very fine sample of hops grown in the Nelson district, rabbit skins packed and ready for export, kegs of tallow, crude petroleum, etc.

  58. The crude oil in the Bartlesville field is in grade about the same as the Kansas oil, while the grade of the Muskogee field is somewhat better.

  59. The repugnance to such a remedy was reinforced by crude analogies between a perverted Darwinism and politics.

  60. The latter was the business, social, and intellectual centre of the crude town which sprawled with a shameless disregard for appearances on both sides of the gulch through which flowed Bitter Creek.

  61. She had a savage instinct to thrust them into the blaze, with the crude half-formed notion that to destroy them would be to destroy the conditions which they expressed.

  62. The valley was sprinkled with the huts, tepees, rude houses of the Indian farmers and the agency employees, which followed the course of the Standing Bear and the crude irrigating ditches.

  63. It is effective, but to me personally, the colour scheme is even more crude than the exigencies of a poster demand.

  64. It must have been an incident of the most crude and ancient of civilizations; even the cave-dweller in the dim and distant past must surely have possessed the essential idea of it.

  65. This was inevitable among a primitive people whose crude religious consciousness sought to frame from the analogy of human nature a visible symbol of the Deity and a sensible emblem of religious faith.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abhorrent; abominable; amateur; amateurish; angular; animal; arrested; artless; backward; barbarian; barbaric; barbarous; base; bawdy; beastly; blatant; blinding; bluff; boorish; brassy; brazen; brutal; churlish; clumsy; coarse; colorful; contemptible; crass; crude; despicable; detestable; disgusting; doggerel; earthy; embryonic; ethyl; execrable; extravagant; fetid; flagrant; flaring; flashy; flaunting; forbidding; foul; fresh; fulsome; garish; gas; gasoline; gauche; gaudy; glaring; gorgeous; graceless; gross; harsh; hateful; heinous; homespun; ignoble; ignorant; impolite; improper; impure; incomplete; inconsiderate; incorrect; indecorous; indelicate; inelegant; infelicitous; insensitive; insolent; kerosene; lewd; loathsome; loud; loutish; low; lumpy; lurid; malodorous; merciless; meretricious; miasmic; nasty; native; nauseating; noisome; noxious; objectionable; obnoxious; obscene; obtrusive; odious; offensive; ore; outlandish; outspoken; paraffin; petrol; petroleum; primitive; prurient; racy; rare; raw; reductive; regular; repellent; repugnant; repulsive; revolting; ribald; rough; rude; rudimentary; rugged; rustic; screaming; sensational; severe; shameless; shrieking; sickening; simplistic; sketchy; spectacular; stinking; stunted; tacky; tactless; tasteless; tawdry; uncivil; uncivilized; uncouth; uncultivated; uncultured; uncut; underdeveloped; undeveloped; undignified; undressed; unfaded; unfeminine; unfinished; unformed; ungentlemanly; ungraceful; unladylike; unlicked; unpolished; unrefined; unseemly; unsophisticated; unsorted; untreated; vile; vulgar; young


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    crude brick; crude petroleum; crude sugar