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Example sentences for "mixing"

Lexicographically close words:
mixed; mixer; mixers; mixes; mixeth; mixt; mixta; mixture; mixtures; mixup
  1. It is this that causes the discordant sound of voices speaking in the Taj, the echo repeating and mixing the different voices.

  2. They grow to a great height, and are chiefly valuable for the purity of the gum, which exudes in great quantities from the bark, and is highly prized for mixing with varnish and for tanning purposes.

  3. You see a Dutch lady sitting with the rice before her, and choosing leisurely first from one dish and then from another, and when she has done so mixing and chopping it all up together.

  4. In this chorus of admiring affection, Haydon alone must assert his own superiority by mixing depreciation with praise.

  5. But in other company he was at this time mixing freely.

  6. Much of the difficulty in identifying and discriminating colors on an author's original maps is due to the promiscuous mixing of colors.

  7. Hence if the supply of a color produced by mixing becomes exhausted and the attempt is made to duplicate it by a second mixture the two will probably fail to match.

  8. If he is to retouch a number of photographs that have the same local color he may with advantage make up enough of the tint for the entire lot, thoroughly mixing it and seeing that it is not too thin.

  9. I claim raising, by pneumatic pressure, oils or burning-fluids from an oil or fluid compartment of a ship or other vessel, and mixing with said oil and fluid the gas generated therefrom, as herein described and set forth.

  10. Tracey asked Johnny if he'd mind mixing the highballs and bringing out the sandwiches.

  11. He stopped and talked for a while, before we came in and joined Tracey and Lois in the dining room, where Tracey was mixing cocktails.

  12. The practice of Lucilius of mixing Greek words and phrases with his Latin style might, at first sight, expose him to a similar criticism.

  13. This passage illustrates two characteristics of Lucilius--his habit of mixing Greek with Latin words, and the attention he bestowed on technical rules of style.

  14. Golaud suspects it, and his jealousy, mixing with his love for brother and wife, is delineated masterfully.

  15. And he sometimes fails to discriminate the sheep and goats, tweaking the foolish, self-satisfied noses of the former so sadly, that he has been accused of mixing his moral values.

  16. Before the end of supper she knew all about Frank and Ronald, the laburnum tree in the front garden, what tea they bought, and Albinia's plan for making coal last longer by mixing it with coke.

  17. But Rogers missed the compliment, being busy in a corner with Monkey and Jimbo, playing at mixing colours with startling results.

  18. From here she forced her own light through, mixing her beams of coloured radiance with the thick grey lines themselves.

  19. And while you was mixing the dose with the best ecclesiastical intentions, I hintroduced a foreign element.

  20. If I'm here till the autumn meeting you'll find me lunching on the hill, with the Canons marking my card and the dear old Bishop mixing the salad.

  21. Mixing the fruit and sugar well together, she put the saucepan away in a cool place until the next day.

  22. Then, after allowing time for complete mixing of the sample with the blood, a second sample is counted using a scintillation counter.

  23. After a suitable time to permit thorough mixing of the added material throughout the blood stream, a new blood sample is taken and its radioactivity is measured.

  24. The effect of mixing will be seen soon enough at the factory, and often much too soon in hot weather.

  25. As to mixing the morning's with the night's milk, it appears to be preferable to working up the two milkings separately.

  26. If the morning's milk were made as cool as the night's, the effect of mixing would not be so speedy and disastrous.

  27. These are for mixing and spreading medicaments.

  28. Evidently they were favourite instruments of the painter, and had been used by her for mixing and preparing her colours.

  29. Among a number of colour pots and alabaster mortars for rubbing down and mixing colours was an etui similar to the typical cylindrical instrument case of the ancient surgeon, and in this were two spoon probes like the one shown in Pl.

  30. The spathomele was used by painters for preparing and mixing their colours.

  31. A third is of similar size and shape, but it is considerably destroyed by oxidation, and it is adherent to a rectangular slab of black stone which had been used for mixing medicaments.

  32. And this reflection had such weight, that instead of mixing for himself, he allowed a friend to mix for him.

  33. And the brains being always so valuable for mixing with fresh--but I will not tell for the sake of honour--it was natural that he should look at the head of this poor creature.

  34. She, Zora, could wander unattended over Europe, mixing without spot or stain with whatever company she listed; that was because she was Zora Middlemist, a young woman of exceptional personality and experience of life.

  35. He's not fit for mixing with decent folk.

  36. One morning Mrs. Kirk, mixing a pudding, nearly started out of her skin as she heard the thud, thud, in her grate.

  37. A clergyman of the neighbourhood, even, has written a pamphlet to prove that they were the work of the antediluvian giants, who excavated them for the purpose of mixing dough for their loaves of bread and batter for their puddings.

  38. Some of the wild Roses are also very excellent for mixing into foliage masses, but, as a rule, their foliage characteristics are rather weak, and they are liable to be attacked by thrips.

  39. Cactus growers usually make a soil by mixing pulverized plaster or lime refuse with garden loam, using about two-thirds of the loam.

  40. Often the nature of the soil will be such as to make it desirable to have at hand a barrel of sharp sand for mixing with the soil, to make it more porous and prevent baking.

  41. Prepare the earth by mixing some well decayed leaf-mold with rich garden loam, thereby making an earth which will retain moisture.

  42. I will not here describe the process of mixing Salt with Lime commended by Prof.

  43. For Sable:--Very dark grey, made by mixing a little Chinese white and gum with black: shade with black and more gum.

  44. I asked the young lady to please prepare one of the potatoes in the way she liked best, and this was done by taking the mealy heart out of the jacket and mixing it with butter, salt, and pepper to taste.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mixing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admixture; amalgamation; broadcasting; combination; composition; confusion; fusion; integration; interfusion; intermingling; merger; mingling; mixing; mixture; monitoring; pluralism; scanning; shading; solution; syncretism; synthesis; transmission; union