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Example sentences for "lather"

Lexicographically close words:
latex; lath; latha; lathe; lathed; lathered; lathering; lathes; lathing; laths
  1. When the more noticeable of the blackheads have been expressed, the face should be firmly rubbed for three or four minutes with a lather made from a special soap composed of sulphur, camphor and balsam of Peru.

  2. Any lather remaining on the face at the end of this time should be wiped off with a soft handkerchief.

  3. But sir," inserted Lather when Zimbardo paused to take a breath and clutch the air.

  4. Mr. Lather sent in a frantic message that all eighteen ships were under attack.

  5. Without turning his head, Lather addressed one of his crew.

  6. Soon Lather appeared with a handful of records.

  7. Tell Mr. Lather to put the prisoners into the cell block.

  8. That was destroyed when Lather melted the Vigilant Warrior.

  9. Lather cursed when he saw that the damage he had inflicted was not crippling.

  10. Lather brought the Silver Cloud in for the kill.

  11. Lather could feel the adrenaline surging through him.

  12. Lather opened a file and brought out another disk.

  13. Automatic seals quickly stopped the leak and Lather sped on.

  14. With a grin of satisfaction, Lather saw that he would have one more chance to attack.

  15. As his fleet circled, Lather waited to see what Bolcher's ships would do.

  16. He spoke with some feeling and fed me with about the most unpalatable lather I think I ever participated in.

  17. I was shaving myself only from Forty-second street to Albany, but it took me from Albany to Omaha to pull the razor apart, and to dig out the coagulated lather and the dear, dear whiskers.

  18. So accurately had he learned to measure the quantity of lather which an ear will hold that when he got through with me and I went away there was not over a tablespoonfnl in either ear and possibly not that much.

  19. Cheyenne was squatted on his heels shaving with cold lather and a cracked looking-glass propped against a roll of bedding, and a razor which needed honing.

  20. And as they went past on the keen gallop--and the horses both in a lather of sweat--the boy impudently shook his fist at me where I was glancing from my window.

  21. I am for buying you a bit of drink; but if you mention the gentry to me once more in that blackguard way I'll lather you into a resemblance to your grandfather's bones.

  22. Come along now, and hold your tongue like a graven image if you would not be having me stop the duel to lather you.

  23. He wet a pane of glass, rubbed up a thick lather of scouring soap and applied it and rubbed vigorously.

  24. The cook was a lather of cold perspiration.

  25. Three waters are to be used, the two after the first lather being of the same heat, and of pure clean water.

  26. The soap is cut into small pieces and boiled into a lather with water, and the lump ammonia is then added.

  27. This lather is used at about 100° Fahrenheit, and the clothes must not be rubbed, but allowed to soak for about an hour in the water, and must then be drawn backwards and forwards repeatedly in the bath till clean.

  28. To lather an ass’s head is only wasting soap.

  29. To lather an ass’s head is a waste of soap.

  30. Next to having the razor in perfect condition, this is the most important thing to do; for it is impossible to shave easily unless the face is well lathered and the lather thoroughly worked into the beard.

  31. Usually sufficient water to make the lather will adhere to the cup, soap and brush.

  32. Then with the fingers rub it thoroughly into the beard until the lather has had sufficient time to stiffen the hairs.

  33. Now with the brush, mix thoroughly, using a combined stirring and churning motion, until a good thick lather appears.

  34. Go over the face once more with the brush, in order to spread the lather evenly, and then begin shaving at once, before the lather has time to dry.

  35. With most hones you may use either water, lather or oil; but do not change from one to the other; whichever you begin with, use that exclusively.

  36. Apply a good thick lather to the surface and rub it in with the palm of the hand.

  37. Barbers sometimes nail the strop to a board and rub the lather in with a smooth bottle; but the hand will do quite as well, and indeed, we think it preferable.

  38. Lather the face as before, though it is unnecessary to rub the lather in with the fingers.

  39. Do not leave the lather to dry in the brush, but after shaving rinse it out thoroughly and dry the brush with a towel, before putting away.

  40. A good soap will produce a thick creamy lather that will last throughout the entire process of shaving.

  41. I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my 'temperamentality' while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face, and shout, 'Seen my brown pants?

  42. The hands unquestionably make the softest and most delicate means of bringing the lather completely into contact with the surface of the skin and, besides this, the amount of pressure to be applied can also be regulated to a nicety.

  43. And your lather went to the store with a very sad countenance.

  44. When the scuffle you heave a ripe custard-apple at them, and it bursts in a lather of cream.

  45. Then I shall walk him back again, in case he should accidentally burst into a lather and make Rathray angry.

  46. The fruit of this plant is about the size of a large gooseberry, the outer covering or shell of which contains a saponaceous principle in sufficient abundance to produce a lather with water and is used as a substitute for soap.

  47. The juice, when the watery part is evaporated, forms a good soap (as detergent as castile), and will mix and form a lather with salt water as well as with fresh.

  48. Having stirred the gall well into the suds, put in the black lace veil, and work and squeeze it up and down through the lather for five minutes or more; taking care not to rub it.

  49. Add to the lather a handful of fine salt.

  50. Into this second lather infuse a large quantity of blue, pressed into the water from the indigo bag, and well stirred in.

  51. Make a strong lather with white soap and warm water; put the scarf, &c.

  52. Make a strong lather of clear cold water and the best white soap.

  53. In a large clean earthen pan, or a small tub, make a strong lather of white soap and clear soft water, warm but not hot.

  54. Then make a fresh lather of white soap and cold water, and squeeze the ribbon through that.

  55. Wash the chintz through two warm waters, making a lather in the second also, and adding salt.

  56. The gardener felt satisfied and disposed to be confidential, although the lather was beginning to feel cold and clammy, and the tiny vesicles were bursting and dying away.

  57. Chris felt as if he would have liked to gag the barber with his own lather brush.

  58. Wimble; and pat, pat, pat, went the razor over his hand as the lather dried.

  59. Wimble, beginning to lather again, and this time in so thoughtful a manner that the gardener's mouth disappeared in the soapy foam, and the desire for more information seemed to have gone.

  60. Wimble passed the brush deftly all over his quaintly wrinkled face, till masses of lather hung on to his ears, and covered his cheeks, so that only his eyes were seen.

  61. That's true," said the gardener, letting his head sink back with a sigh, as Wimble stood before him working up the lather in his pot to a splendid consistency.

  62. As each victim left the planks, said victim wiped the remaining lather from his face, ears and nose and applied his own talcum powder.

  63. The more lather a chap makes the better washerman he is, from all appearances.

  64. And by the time they reached the plank their bristles needed only a final application of lather and Giuseppi got busy with the razor.

  65. Ward observed maliciously, wiping a blob of hairy lather upon a page torn from an old Sears-Roebuck catalogue.

  66. And that old paper to wipe the lather on, while you're at it.

  67. Why is more soap required to form a lather with hard water than with soft water?

  68. Mix well and notice how many cubic centimeters of soap solution must be used before a permanent lather is formed, also notice the precipitate of "lime soap.

  69. One guesses at domestic scenes simply at sight of the face of a man who is roaring; one is amused on passing by a barber's shop, to see the barber leave his customer whose face is covered with lather to look out in the street.

  70. Renardet covered his chin with a white lather while he looked at himself in the glass.


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