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Example sentences for "lime"

Lexicographically close words:
limbes; limbless; limbo; limbs; limbus; limed; limekiln; limekilns; limelight; limen
  1. Industry consists primarily of small factories to process passion fruit, lime oil, honey, and coconut cream.

  2. It is very easy to erect them in places where sand and gravel are near at hand and lime is comparatively cheap.

  3. This shows that the sources of water containing bicarbonate of lime have been the same from the first; but it proves nothing as to the rate of deposit.

  4. Situated between the country scene and the fight scene, this detail shows that the mural was painted directly on the lime plaster, which explains the clear background.

  5. Only these two colors were used, directly on the lime plaster.

  6. In 1969, the walls were covered with a lime plaster, and the floor with schist pavings from Beauchamps.

  7. The minerals that are deposited in us as what we call bone, the lime and other salts, are something which a plant once sucked up out of the earth, or another animal took out of his food to pass on to us.

  8. A stone it really is, a deposit of lime salts in the tissue, around a nest of tubercle bacilli.

  9. There is also a great deal of lime burned there for the Philadelphia market.

  10. Many of the old houses in Germantown are plastered on the inside with clay and straw mixed, and over it is laid a thin lime plaster.

  11. The lime should be in pieces of a suitable size.

  12. I have used these boxes several years, and only changed the lime once a year.

  13. The desiccative powers of lime are familiar to chemists, and, I believe, to many practical men; but I do not know of lime having been used for the above purpose.

  14. The systematic application of lime has much improved the soil, which is naturally poor.

  15. Epidote is another secondary lime-bearing mineral which results from the decomposition of the soda lime felspars and the pyroxenes.

  16. The afterpiece, "The Lime Kiln Club," was quite a pretentious affair for a minstrel company in those days.

  17. Hit beats the bugs jes to think thet boy 'ud run into thet house blazin' like a lime kiln from top to bottom.

  18. This slimy mess was just out of the lime vat.

  19. In the burlesque of "The Lime Kiln Club," one climax was the sound of a cat fight on the roof.

  20. Pull up the plant at once and disinfect the spot with unslaked lime and sulphur.

  21. For the several kinds of underground worms that trouble pinks, of which the wireworm is the chief, I have found a liberal use of unslaked lime and bone-dust in the preparation of the soil before planting the best preventive.

  22. Moreover, the action of water slowly percolating through the back walls, carrying lime and spar in solution, has coated them with crystals, which gleam in sparkling beauty when the sunlight touches them early in the day.

  23. It requires very good judgment to determine just how much foreign material and lime is needed to produce the best results with the constantly varying ores.

  24. This process requires a certain percentage of lead, a certain amount of silica, and a certain proportion of iron and lime in each charge.

  25. The lime for flux is procured three miles from town, and costs only $1.

  26. Our tanners use unslaked lime for a similar purpose.

  27. The Egyptian must at all times have been caustic (pungens) even without lime; but that which was mixed with lime could not so speedily or completely dissolve on the tongue as that which was pure, and left behind it more earth.

  28. These are formed of various animal matters, mixed with lime or mortar-rubbish; the mixture is watered and stirred occasionally, and allowed to remain for a considerable time.

  29. Heinsii, where he speaks of the heat produced in lime by slaking it.

  30. The process involves merely a transformation at a high temperature, a portion of the carbon in the form of coke, uniting with pulverized lime to give the calcium carbide or CaC2.

  31. From the metallic sodium solid caustic soda is then derived by a secondary reaction, while the chlorine is combined with lime to form chloride of lime or bleaching powder.

  32. The actual process of steel-making consists of charging the crucible with steel scrap, pig iron, iron ore, and lime of the proper quality and in the right proportions, placing this material on the hearth of the furnace.

  33. The black paste is surrounded by a white paste Z, consisting mainly of lime and sal-ammoniac.

  34. As they sat that afternoon in the shade of a lime tree, drinking limeade, Dick, the philosopher, began to question Ned.

  35. The snake seemed to be within striking distance and the unnerved boy sprang suddenly away from it, landing among the thorn-bearing branches of a big lime tree.

  36. They made their camp by a lime tree which was burdened with fruit, and went out from it each day to hunt fish or explore and to study and chart the country about them.

  37. As Dick was standing beside a lime tree, he heard a sound near him like the whirring of a big locust.

  38. In some, the lime had but half accomplished its purpose; and while in parts of the body, the bones lay bare and exposed; in others, corruption in its most loathsome form prevailed.

  39. In one corner of the vault, lay a quantity of lime used to consume the bodies, whilst nearer the light, lay corpses in every stage of putrefaction.

  40. The Croydon and Wandsworth Railway, laid down by William Jessop as early as the year 1801, had been regularly used for the conveyance of lime and stone in waggons hauled by mules or donkeys from Merstham to London.

  41. Just now, in the garden, when the light came through the thin green silk leaves of the lime tree, for a moment, while she sat looking at the lime tree, time stood still.

  42. They are also for the most part covered with a whitish coating or patina, which is nothing but a thin layer of carbonate of lime darkened in colour by the action of time.

  43. The formations are calcareous rocks, sandstone, slaty sandstone, and lime mixed with clay; the sandstone in long beds, not in blocks.

  44. To coat your legs with a layer of lime when travelling is the only way to prevent them covering your whole body.

  45. We may infer that this is the case, from the energetic manner in which bits of bone and phosphate of lime affect the leaves.

  46. I placed one of these leaves under the microscope, and saw innumerable atoms of lime adhering to the external surface of the secretion.

  47. In the case of bone, the ferment does not come into play until all the phosphate of lime has been decomposed and free acid is present, and then the fibrous basis is quickly dissolved.

  48. The more probable explanation is that the acid was all consumed in decomposing the phosphate of lime which still remained; so that none was left in a free state to act in conjunction with the ferment on the fibrous basis.

  49. This fluid was tested each day with litmus paper, but never coloured it; and this circumstance I do not understand, as the superphosphate of lime is acid.

  50. Anyhow, it is manifest that the phosphate of lime is a most powerful stimulant.

  51. The great power of the former is probably due to the presence of phosphorus, as in the cases of phosphate of lime and of ammonia.

  52. Notwithstanding the precision with which the tentacles generally were directed, those near the circumference of one leaf were not accurately directed towards some phosphate of lime at a rather distant point on the opposite side of the disc.

  53. The discovery of this valuable lime stone, has enabled the canal company to construct their masonry more solidly than any other known in the United States.

  54. An especially good trick is to keep putting limestone or water containing lime in the boiler; it will deposit lime on the bottom and sides.

  55. Alsike clover will grow on a soil too wet or containing too little lime for either of the former.

  56. Thus soils that naturally grow chestnut trees, indicating a low lime content, have a tendency to deteriorate under exhaustive cropping much more rapidly than limestone soils.

  57. Among the machines requiring a considerable investment for the number of days used may be mentioned hay loaders, hay tedders, corn-binding harvesters and lime spreaders.

  58. To lath and plaster ceiling, side walls, and partitions with lime and hair two coats, and set to slate the new roof with good countess slates and metal nails.

  59. He called our attention to the fact that in Norman mortar sand is predominant, and in Roman mortar lime or chalk.

  60. The principal industries of Rochester are lime and cement making, "the Medway coal trade," and boat and barge building.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lime juice; lime salts; lime water; limestone rock