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Example sentences for "cup"

Lexicographically close words:
cuntre; cuntrey; cuntrie; cuntry; cuore; cupbearer; cupboard; cupboards; cupel; cupellation
  1. The cup of tea by his plate was odorous as a bouquet of flowers.

  2. There was a steaming cup of coffee to be carried to the frozen postman, who took it gratefully, and gave her a large, thick letter.

  3. The disk was attached to the thread by means of knots in the thread itself; avoiding the correction for the small cup usually employed for that purpose.

  4. Asako, who had found it comparatively easy to pour out a cup of drawing-room tea without clumsiness.

  5. A sucking sound ran round the room as the first cup was drained.

  6. The warder brought a cup of tea and some salt biscuit.

  7. They were followed by the geisha, each girl carrying a little white china bottle shaped like a vegetable marrow, and a tiny cup like the bath which hygienic old maids provide for their canary birds.

  8. On the tray is a tiny teapot and a tiny cup and a tiny dish, in which are three little salted damsons, with a toothpick fixed in one of them.

  9. This keeps the heat in the tea or coffee, so that you can have a second cup for the asking.

  10. Dash of cayenne pepper 2/3 cup of oil (olive oil, cotton seed oil or other edible oil).

  11. If mustard is to be added, mix it first in a cup and mix it gradually so that it does not lump.

  12. A Tray for Liquid and Soft Food The tray should be large enough to hold two glasses or a cup and saucer and a glass, as well as salt or sugar.

  13. A heated glass or a cup in which there is a cloth wrung in very hot water, held against the ear may be found very comforting.

  14. Coffee of average strength is made as follows: One-half cup coffee finely ground, 4 cups cold water, 2 eggshells.

  15. They have gills, which are white or yellow, a ring on the stalk, a cup at the base, white spores, and are deadly poison.

  16. After that it is fed every four hours until it is fifteen or sixteen months old, when it is shifted to three meals a day with perhaps a cup of milk in long intervals.

  17. Half a cup of coffee to four cups of water makes coffee of average strength.

  18. A spoon should never be allowed to rest in a tall receptacle such as a cup or glass, as it is likely to overturn the receptacle.

  19. Before her was a tea wagon and she was at present pouring a cup for a slightly stiff person in knickerbockers.

  20. The "things" were some little round cup cakes, three wine glasses, and a large bottle of sauterne.

  21. He then turned to the first gentleman, who, cup in hand, was making slow backward progress to his seat.

  22. And the meal could be as nicely served, even though the thick cup cost but a penny and the tea was poured from an earthen pot kept hot on the stove.

  23. And if he's decent, he can come in here once in a while and I'll warm him up with a cup of coffee.

  24. A reporter bustled in, ordered a cup of coffee, and, clearing away the plates and casters, squared his elbows and attacked a roll of paper.

  25. She was chilled from the ride in the car, the water was boiling, and it would take but a minute to make herself a cup of tea.

  26. She it was that gave him three kisses with every cup that he took.

  27. He hath washed thee as a cup is washed in a tub.

  28. One cup of mixture will fill six sandwiches, using two full slices of bread for each sandwich.

  29. Serve one half cup of stew with one biscuit.

  30. Using a dipper measuring half a cup per serving, mold the mixture into croquettes.

  31. Sprinkle with salt, and in the center of each put a quarter of a cup of dressing.

  32. Cook the tomatoes with the seasonings and add to the gelatin which has been softened in the cup of cold water.

  33. Without answering, she crossed over to her sister's seat and poured her out a second cup of tea.

  34. Perhaps Evelina was ill, and with no one to nurse her but a man who could not even make himself a cup of tea!

  35. She sat down in her usual place, looked about her with the same wondering stare, and then, as of old, poured herself out the first cup of tea.

  36. Yes--at least he thinks so," she answered, helping herself as a matter of course to the first cup of tea.

  37. He now had the possibility of fire, so that evening the little cup in the hills held quite comfortable encampment.

  38. If energetic, such persons will search the house with a kerosene cup attached to a stick; when this is held under resting mosquitoes the insects fall into the cup and are destroyed.

  39. If a physician is not procurable, the patient should receive a cup of strong coffee, and a dose of ten or fifteen drops of tincture of belladonna in a tablespoonful of water, if an adult.

  40. Give a cup of strong coffee and fifteen drops of tincture of belladonna to adult.

  41. The workmanship was rude, the ornamental drawings or engravings even more hard than medieval ones in their outlines, and the cup bore mark of the original hammering which had beaten it into shape.

  42. The presence of the cup and bowl alongside the weapons and implements deposited with the ashes of the deceased warrior, is readily accounted for.

  43. The small cup figured along with them is the one found on Arthur's Seat, near Edinburgh.

  44. It will be seen that this maple cup bears a very close resemblance to the contemporary vessels of the same class referred to in the Journals of the Archæological Association and of the Institute.

  45. The little cup is formed with great regularity, and ornamented with a uniform pattern, the lines of which seem as if they had been impressed on the soft clay with a fine twisted cord.

  46. The letter is accompanied with a sketch of what is described as "a curious little iron cup found in the grave.

  47. The gold cup was claimed for the Crown as Lord of the Duchy of Cornwall, and it is believed to be still at Windsor Castle.

  48. The material of the cup is wood, to all appearance oak, most curiously wrought and embossed with silver work.

  49. Jane balanced her spoon on the brim of the shell-like cup and smiled at Mr. Scott.

  50. Mall, haste thee with another cup of the drink.

  51. Si possibile says Christ, if it be possible, let this cup pass, when his love, expressed in a former decree with his Father, had made it impossible.

  52. I will find this cup of compunction as full as I have formerly filled the cups of worldly confections, that so I may escape the cup of malediction and irrecoverable destruction that depends upon that.

  53. And hobbling away, she took from a nook a large cup without a handle, black on the outside and white within.

  54. Then she descended to the basement, where she brewed a cup of tea, and sat down to a supper of cold sea-fowl, and juicy, white bread of her own baking.

  55. No, most worthy colonel, with my whole heart I yield you the palm for being the first and most rapid drinker at the electoral court, and for emptying a quart cup of wine at one draught.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cup" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alveolus; arch; astrology; bail; basin; bay; bleed; bowl; brass; bucket; bust; cairn; cave; cavity; cenotaph; column; concavity; constellation; crater; cross; crown; crypt; cup; decant; depression; destination; destiny; dip; dish; dolmen; doom; end; fatality; fate; fold; follicle; fork; fortune; future; garland; grave; gravestone; headstone; hole; hollow; inevitability; inscription; lacuna; ladle; laurels; leech; lot; marker; mausoleum; measure; memento; memorial; monolith; monument; mound; necrology; obelisk; obituary; palm; pillar; pit; plaque; pocket; portion; pot; potion; pour; prize; pyramid; quart; reliquary; remembrance; retire; retreat; ribbon; scoop; shaft; shell; shovel; shrine; sink; sinus; socket; spade; spoon; stars; stela; stone; stupa; tablet; testimonial; tomb; tombstone; tope; transfuse; trophy; trough; weird; wreath


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cups boiling; cups brown; cups flour; cups milk; cups sugar; cups water