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Example sentences for "liquid"

Lexicographically close words:
liquefies; liquefy; liquefying; liqueur; liqueurs; liquidate; liquidated; liquidating; liquidation; liquide
  1. A few doses of liquid manure are a great help when they are getting towards blooming strength.

  2. They look as if, originally of a purplish-red colour, some liquid had been dropped on them, making confluent pools of pale green, lightest at the centre of the drop.

  3. She looked into its dark liquid eye, and drank deep from the fountain of maternal love.

  4. The Zeppelin contains a large amount of liquid explosives and firing with incendiary bombs it takes but a few minutes to destroy the huge air vessel.

  5. In about half an hour, siphon the liquid and filter with a double paper to obtain a good, clear liquid, which should always be kept in a dark place.

  6. At the end of half an hour, siphon the clear liquid and filter by means of a paper, in order to have a perfectly clear solution.

  7. And on the liquid mirror glow'd The clear perfection of her face.

  8. Only a few tins of food remained and the water was wholly gone; the liquid from the food cans only served to increase their thirst.

  9. Howard tipped over a bottle of liquid white.

  10. To preserve from insects, the plants, after mounting, are often brushed over with a liquid formed by the solution of 1/4 lb.

  11. At the same time, any excessive local rainfall is productive of difficulty and danger from the floods of liquid mud and loose boulders which sweep like an avalanche down the hill sides.

  12. Germany has no natural gas or oil wells, and gasoline and kerosene are not produced there, hence the necessity of using some other form of liquid fuel.

  13. The steam or vapor rising from the boiling liquid must be cooled and condensed.

  14. All these instruments are provided with tables whereby their readings may be corrected and the specific gravity of the liquid determined.

  15. A careful examination of the liquid when it is being agitated reveals a vast number of minute air-bubbles, which are discharged from every point of the mixture.

  16. Baume, and the operation is complete when the liquid flowing through the vessel marks not more than 3 deg.

  17. An Act for the withdrawal from bond, tax free, of domestic alcohol when rendered unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with suitable de-naturing materials.

  18. That is, in a continuous column fed regularly by condensation from above and supplied with a constant flow of phlegm, each plate carries upon it a liquid of constant composition relative to the boiling point of the fluid on that plate.

  19. The glass is half filled with the liquid diluted with one half of pure water.

  20. The vapors rise up into the column from the still and meeting the stream of liquid convert it partially into vapor which passes out at the top of C considerably enriched, into the column D.

  21. The liquid to be distilled enters at the top of the inclined column A and descends to the base thereof.

  22. The bubbles of gas as they rise from the body of the liquid are broken by this layer of oil, and hence the violence of the ebullition is considerably checked.

  23. This is kept cool by a stream of liquid flowing from the reservoir H into the smaller cistern G from which a continuous and regular flow is kept up through the tap v into a funnel N and thence into condenser F.

  24. Suddenly two grooms held Bonfire's jaws apart while Hawkins poured a liquid down his throat.

  25. Sludge acid is an innocent-appearing liquid which sometimes stands in pools near gas-works.

  26. Finally, he went over the whole work, shading it with a liquid water-colour like water tinted with black.

  27. Disappointed in my expectations, I was about giving up the task, when an idea struck me of submitting the liquid of the first experiment to another trial.

  28. In Italy it is called aqua di Tufinia: no one can avoid its attacks, since the liquid is as limpid as water, and cannot be suspected.

  29. The result is evident in the smooth, white, pearly body and the transparent liquid glaze, so technically perfect and so much admired by other potters.

  30. Bathed in liquid light, that soft effulgence peculiar to Denmark, where the sunlight is so soft and subdued and nothing stands out in harsh contrast, the scenery lends itself to soothing reverie.

  31. The rich liquid glaze has a slight greenish tone and has a surface like polished crystal.

  32. The glaze is rich and liquid and the colours are subdued in tone and appeal to lovers of subtlety in art.

  33. The modelled fish, with the liquid glaze suggestive that they have just been captured, are a remarkable feature and are true in every detail--as true as were the botanical specimens on the Flora Danica service.

  34. Let stand in a warm place, loosely covered, until the fish are thoroughly rotted, and in a liquid state; this scent may be used alone or combined with others.

  35. The pressure of the atmosphere all around us is so great that no liquid can issue against it from a close vessel, unless air is at the same time admitted to balance the external pressure by an internal one of the same amount.

  36. Each of these receptacles is also provided with another tube, by which air may be admitted so as to allow the liquid contained in it to flow.

  37. Metallic calcium, as prepared by Professor Moissan from solution in liquid sodium, separates in hexagonal crystals which have a specific gravity of 1.

  38. Then he thought it was time to make the last trial, and he put the phial to the purple lips of Faria, and without having occasion to force open his jaws, which had remained extended, he poured the whole of the liquid down his throat.

  39. Madame Danglars was carried into the adjoining room; Monte Cristo dropped a very small portion of the red liquid upon her lips; she returned to consciousness.

  40. Barrois took the glass, and, raising it to his purple lips, took about half of the liquid offered him.

  41. I have mine," said Madame de Villefort; and she passed over to Monte Cristo a bottle full of the same kind of red liquid whose good properties the count had tested on Edward.

  42. Then everything was still, excepting that Valentine heard the almost noiseless sound of some liquid being poured into the glass she had just emptied.

  43. As an introduction to the use of solid food, the consistency of liquid food is gradually increased, and therefore, after having habituated the child to flour and milk boiled, they next give it bread diluted in some convenient fluid.

  44. He ought always to stand beside the liquid silver of the female spirit with a spoon, and keep skimming off the scum which gathers on it, that the silver-glittering sheen of the ideal may always keep bright and shining.

  45. He behoved to hold the phial with refined fingers, and rub the liquid into the "raw" with the soft touch of love.

  46. He looked rather downcast when I last saw him, and refused nourishment either in solid or liquid form.

  47. Then to Marufa was the bleeding carcass carried and while still alive he slit open the belly, smeared the liquid over his chest and right arm, and tore out the guts.

  48. It drank up the darkness, and filled the gulf with liquid fire.

  49. The larks had gone wild with the joy of living, and their delicious rivalry, their ceaseless gurgle of liquid melody, seemed somehow to match the multitudinous glitter of the mighty clouds of foliage.

  50. Vile aniseed brandy--liquid fire--was sold cheap, and many a man who began the day cool and sober ended it as a raving madman.

  51. It is a colourless spontaneously inflammable liquid of boiling point 95 deg.

  52. It is a colourless fuming liquid boiling at 17-18 deg.

  53. It is a colourless fuming liquid boiling at 90.

  54. OC2H5)5 is obtained as a colourless liquid of boiling point.

  55. In the caldron in the centre of the hut was seething a dark liquid that emitted a fetid odour, and threw up volumes of smoke, which, unable to escape freely through the roof, hung heavily to within a few feet of the ground floor.

  56. In case the milk coagulates in the udder and can not be withdrawn, or when the liquid becomes fetid, a solution of 20 grains carbonate of soda and 10 drops carbolic acid dissolved in an ounce of water should be injected into the teat.

  57. The tumors should be washed in warm water and thoroughly cleansed, after which scarify them and gently but firmly squeeze out the liquid that will be seen to follow the shallow incisions.

  58. When there is liquid exudation into the scrotum, or sac, fluctuation may also be felt, but the liquid can be made out to be around the testicle and can be pressed up into the abdomen through the inguinal canal.

  59. The accumulation of liquid in the abdominal cavity of the fetus is less frequent, but when present it may arrest parturition as completely as will hydrocephalus.

  60. The legs tend to swell from the foot up, also the dependent parts beneath the belly and chest, and effusions of liquid may occur within the chest or abdomen.

  61. If the neck of the womb closes, the liquid may accumulate a second time, or even a third, if no means are taken to disinfect it or to correct the tendency.

  62. This consists in the excessive accumulation of liquid in the ventricles of the brain so that the cranial cavity is enlarged and constitutes a great, projecting, rounded mass occupying the space from the eyes upward.

  63. In summer, when so much liquid exhales through the skin as sweat, comparatively little urine is passed, whereas in winter, when the skin is inactive, the urine is correspondingly increased.

  64. Nothing can be more striking than the mutual balance maintained between the liquid secretions of the skin and kidneys during hot and cold weather.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liquid" 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:
    liquid fire; liquid form; liquid hydrocarbon; liquid manure; liquid measure; liquid oxygen; liquid petroleum; liquid state