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Example sentences for "loaves"

Lexicographically close words:
loathes; loathing; loathly; loathsome; loathsomeness; lobate; lobbed; lobbied; lobbies; lobbing
  1. The youth, thinking that he was discovered, and that they were about to conduct him to the emperor, implored them to let him alone, offering to leave loaves and money if he might only be suffered to escape.

  2. They were much alarmed; and Malchus handed them the loaves he had bought, bidding them eat, that, fortified by the food, they might have courage in the time of trial.

  3. In an ordinary way 96 loaves to the sack is a very high yield, unattainable except with strong flour, and probably the average yield is not more than 90 loaves to the sack.

  4. Owing to the use of soft flours, the flavour should be agreeable, and the loaves ought to keep much longer than bread made by ferment and dough.

  5. In North Germany leaven is generally used for making rye bread, and loaves baked from a mixture of wheat and rye flour.

  6. That city must also have possessed bakers by trade, as loaves of bread have been found, round in form, and stamped with the maker's name, possibly to fix responsibility for weight and purity.

  7. Scottish loaves are largely of the "brick" type, high and narrow.

  8. For instance, when bread is sold over the counter, two loaves may be 5 or 6 oz.

  9. Other loaves were elongated rolls, and curiously enough were sprinkled on the top with seeds like modern Vienna bread.

  10. The yield may rise as high as 96 loaves per sack, if strong flour has been used in the sponge.

  11. The method produces good-looking and palatable bread, though the loaves should be eaten within some twelve hours of leaving the oven.

  12. In working dough for tin or Coburg loaves only one trough is used, but for cottage loaves two parallel troughs are fitted, one taking the lower and the other the upper half of the loaf.

  13. In London the manager of a "tied" shop is usually held to account for 92 loaves to the sack.

  14. Naturally the yield of bread is not so high as in the case of an off hand dough made entirely from strong flour, and it will probably not exceed 90 loaves to the sack.

  15. Bread should be put into a hot oven and loaves should rise during the first fifteen minutes.

  16. Cut down or knead and allow it to rise until light, then form into loaves or biscuits.

  17. Fuchs brought up a sack of potatoes and a piece of cured pork from the cellar, and grandmother packed some loaves of Saturday’s bread, a jar of butter, and several pumpkin pies in the straw of the wagon-box.

  18. These are popularly supposed to have been loaves turned into bread.

  19. As a judgment for her hardheartedness all her loaves were petrified.

  20. Tie the casket in thy bosom, and put the gold coins in thy mouth, and take the barley-loaves one in each hand.

  21. But Psyche remembered the words of the tower, and she clung the tighter to the loaves of bread, though she longed to help the feeble shade.

  22. Instead of one gold piece, take two, and two loaves of fresh-baked barley-bread.

  23. After breakfast I attended to children, then baked six loaves of light bread, cooked steak and mashed potatoes for dinner.

  24. She had one of those high peaked sugar loaves before her, and was removing the thick dark purple paper in which they were always wrapped.

  25. Those who serve out the loaves and fishes seldom seem to understand that he is the best carver who fills the plates of the greatest number of guests, in the least portion of time.

  26. The big basket was uncovered and there lay revealed to the eyes of the delighted boys a number of large loaves of delicious homemade bread.

  27. Salvatore, for the Frati Scopetini, a refectory which they painted partly in fresco and partly "a secco," containing the scene of Christ satisfying five thousand people with five loaves and two fishes.

  28. At the same time the basha absorbs bribes, and sweeps loaves of sugar, packets of candles, and pounds of tea into his net.

  29. They should have a mad revelry to-night--the two loaves should be eaten at once.

  30. She must not let them devour the two loaves to-night; that would be criminal extravagance.

  31. The two converted part of the half-crown into French loaves and carried them home to form an unexpected breakfast.

  32. But at last Esther was running through the mist, warmed by the pitcher which she hugged to her bosom, and suppressing the blind impulse to pinch the pair of loaves tied up in her pinafore.

  33. Here before her, in the land of Goshen, flowing with soup, was piled up a heap of halves of loaves, while endless other loaves were ranged along the shelves as for a giant's table.

  34. The consolation of sleeping in that imaginary new bed to the possession of which Ikey was always looking forward was apparently adequate; for Esther got up from the floor and untied the loaves from her pinafore.

  35. She distributed bread from house to house and tramped the streets pushing a little hand-cart and carrying a wooden tally hung at her waist, on which she cut notches with her knife representing the number of the loaves she had delivered.

  36. Alarming stories passed round of cattle drowned in the Seine, sacks of flour emptied in the sewers, loaves of bread thrown into the latrines.

  37. The feeding of the five thousand with a few loaves and fishes surpasses all bounds of exaggeration.

  38. Jesus answered them and said, Verily I say unto you, ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled.

  39. The extremities of a line are loaves and fishes.

  40. And here is our bread," said she, pointing to a long row of loaves arranged on the table.

  41. Excitement had prevailed in the kitchen all the morning: old Duchene, with shirt-sleeves turned up and a cotton cap on his head, was taking out of the oven numberless loaves of bread, the good odor of which pervaded the whole house.

  42. He blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

  43. I accordingly sent our jurebasso next day with the beef and pork, together with a bottle of wine, and six loaves of white bread, all of which he very kindly accepted.

  44. Henceforth the mind of the baker dwelt with ceaseless activity on the problems of the Boer espionage, while his busy fingers plied the brown and white loaves of bread.

  45. Finally, near the offering niche, he is represented seated, usually with his wife at a table bearing loaves of the traditional ta bread.

  46. A pint of milk in a batch of four loaves of bread gives you a pound more bread of better quality, and helps to make it moist.

  47. Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye ate of the loaves and were filled.

  48. From this mass small loaves were kneaded and baked, making very good bread, in his judgment.


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