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Example sentences for "largish"

Lexicographically close words:
largesse; largesses; largest; largeur; larghetto; largo; largos; lari; lariat; lariats
  1. It is mainly formed of yolk granules with numerous nuclei, and a somewhat variable number of largish cells imbedded amongst them.

  2. Its cells soon divide to form a largish mass, which becomes attached to a part of the epiblast of the embryo.

  3. The sculptor now takes four or five largish lumps and rolls them with his hands into long strips, from half to three-quarters of a foot in length, and of the thickness of a good-sized ruler.

  4. Some largish rounded masses occur, several inches in diameter, and rising to a thickness of three-fourths of an inch.

  5. The one first protruded is beset on its upper side with some largish horny points, arranged in two groups, which are continued round to the under side in a band of irregular lines of points.

  6. Their tribune, in the name of the Emperor, ordered the column to halt and bade its centurions deploy their men right and left and mass them in a largish space free of big tombs.

  7. I found myself looking into a largish room, roofed with rough rafters from which hung what might have been hams, flitches and cheeses.

  8. One end of the building seemed to have partially escaped--a largish apartment, evidently a bedroom.

  9. So dense and tangled was the profuse vegetation that it was some time before they could find it, and the rock above, half veiled by largish trees growing up against its surface, afforded no clue.

  10. It was a beautiful view at that point, with the lovely river in its windings, and on the top of the steep bank a kampong of largish houses under palms and durions.

  11. The pieces were rested upon the sides of the boat, and the sharp rattle of gun and rifle followed, Jack and the doctor firing both barrels of their fowling-pieces, loaded with largish shot.

  12. It was Sarah Swetnam, eldest child of the large and tumultuously intellectual Swetnam family that lived in a largish house in a largish way higher up the road, and as to whose financial stability rumour always had something interesting to say.

  13. A largish tablet of sodium bicarbonate to combat excess gastric acidity--obviously a horrible condition, whatever it was.

  14. He had round, pleasant, blue eyes, a rather largish nose, and a rumbling basso voice that was a little surprising the first time you heard it, but which seemed to fit perfectly after you knew him better.

  15. The volume of water is considerable, the rapids are moderate; it is navigable for largish canoes.

  16. We proceeded in a Southerly direction, and after marching for nearly seven hours arrived at, and encamped on, a largish plain, on which paddy had been extensively cultivated.

  17. Passed many streamlets, and continued for some time close to the Endaw, which is still a largish river, apparently deep, with a sluggish stream.

  18. Among the ravines and thence to Hussun Abdul, a new feature presents itself in the frequency of a largish Mimosa, probably that of the Khyber pass.

  19. Negrigam is a largish village on the north bank of the Booree Dihing, which is here a considerable though not deep stream.

  20. In the damp places a largish Loxotis, two or three Begoniae, ditto Urticeae occur.

  21. I went to see Mahmoud of Ghuznee's tomb, which is situated in a largish and better than ordinarily built village, about two miles from the Cabul gate, on the road to Cabul, at a portion of the valley densely occupied with gardens.

  22. Roopur is a largish town, with a Seikh pucka fort on a mound.

  23. Minyeh is a largish place (chef lieu), and, like every second village on the Nile, disfigured by the tall chimneys of sugar factories.

  24. I am just finishing the largish studies of a very handsome model here, and am about to send them off for exhibition.

  25. Her cunt was thick-lipped, and with largish inner lips which showed well in nearly the whole length of the split; her mons was very plump, and covered well, but not widely with crisp black hair.

  26. On the Saturdays, he went out with the boys into the fields: there was no door to the privy, I should add, it was a largish building.

  27. Though with so long a title, the thing consists but of eight largish quarto pages, with a bristle of marginal references.

  28. The gem-bearing gravel is not found until several basalt sheets are encountered below Nam Ngau, a largish tributary flowing in from the north.

  29. Lenny jerked his head around to his right and looked up to see a largish man who had "cop" written all over him.

  30. He looked at Lenny Poe, a small, dark-haired man with a largish nose.

  31. We crossed the well-known creek or torrent in the park near the city, which meant putting our horses through a fairly swift and broad though not deep stream, and then passed through what had once been a largish plantation.

  32. Lastly, my country home had what so many English country-houses have, a largish library.

  33. Eggs: usually 3, sometimes 4, creamy white, marked by largish spots of distinct and obscure rufous brown or umber, chiefly in open wreath about larger end.

  34. They are largish animals with short ears; only the end of the tail is naked.

  35. The Ermetyne presently circled a largish section of the Vishni Fleet's area.

  36. A few moments later, a long-limbed model strolled into the view screen, displaying an exquisite arrangement of burnt sienna ribbons plus four largish leaf-like designs.

  37. The nest is a largish globular structure loosely made of either bamboo-leaves or blades of grass, and all that I have ever seen have been lined inside with a few fine fibres.

  38. They were on adjoining trees in the Akrani; they were largish nests, not like those of D.

  39. It breeds in June, builds a largish nest of dry sedge, woven round five or six reeds, of a deep cup form, which it places about 2 feet above the water.

  40. They lay from February to May, building a largish globular nest of grass, moss, and roots, placed on or very near to the ground in some bush or clump of fern or grass.

  41. Their mother was the daughter of a small farmer and, when she met their father, was chambermaid in a Troy hotel, Troy then being a largish village.

  42. As the venture could not fail outright, even should Galloway die, he rented a largish place at Hempstead, with the privilege of purchase, and installed his wife and himself with a dozen servants and a housekeeper.

  43. Upon the middle finger was a copper ring, in which was set a largish black stone: this was Schamir.

  44. From his beak depended a largish bundle, in pale blue wrappings, so that at a glance they knew the stork was bringing a girl.


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