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Example sentences for "pate"

Lexicographically close words:
patching; patchouli; patcht; patchwork; patchy; pateat; pated; patella; patellar; paten
  1. I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days.

  2. They left the cage upon the tree, and Black-pate at liberty to go or stay, just as he pleased.

  3. In the morning she went into the garden to hear Black-pate sing; but no Black-pate was there!

  4. Mother, do you think Black-pate is awake yet?

  5. Often she started up from her book and ran out, to see if Black-pate was still there.

  6. Come, Lucy, let us see if Black-pate would like to bid us good bye this fine morning.

  7. Some animal's skull was tied to her pate with sinews as a head-dress, and she was tattooed with blue crescents.

  8. The girl with the skull on her pate said, as though speaking from a million years and a million miles away: "This is the third warning; there are no more.

  9. Amid the display of the table arose a pate like a cathedral; on one side was a quarter of cold veal, artichokes, etc.

  10. Pate could not be sent after it just at the moment, and it was rapidly drifting away to leeward, when Johnny Eyre, with a laugh and a “Here goes!

  11. Then he called up the companion to Pate to send the gentleman below, while he flung a few things aside to make the place more presentable.

  12. Then Pate had by this time got the small boat around to leeward, and very shortly after Johnny, dripping like a Newfoundland dog, came on deck and presented the hat to Sheila, amidst a vast deal of laughter.

  13. Then he got into the shadow of the black hull of the yacht, and Pate was there to lower the little gangway.

  14. They had almost got out, indeed, to the yacht before any one was aware of their approach, but Pate appeared in time to seize the rope that Mackenzie flung him, and with a little scrambling, they were at last safely on board.

  15. It’s twa or three years since I was there, sir,” Pate remarked, as he put the glass back on the table.

  16. Mackenzie wanted himself to pull in for them, but this was overruled, and Pate was despatched.

  17. In the meantime let’s see what Pate knows about Loch Roag.

  18. He stood on the companion, his head only being visible, and directed Pate until the Phœbe had arrived at her moorings, and then he went below.

  19. Virginia meanwhile ate pate de foie gras, of which she was passionately fond; and, growing a little less sullen, she at last admitted that they were lucky in having at least the necessaries of life left to them.

  20. From that moment she was the rattle-pate again, and he caught no more glimpses into the sanctuary of her inner heart.

  21. The most delicious pate de foie," urged Lawyer Ball, who was a regular gourmand.

  22. As a rule, he stowed everything away under his shirt; and at night when he reached his bedroom he drew from his bosom hunks of polony, slices of pate de foie gras, and bundles of pork rind.

  23. All this was quite independent of the daily business in fresh pork, pate de fois gras, hare patty, galantine, saveloys and black-puddings.

  24. I was going to see if there was anything left to eat in this city of half-bricks except pate de foie gras, child.

  25. Monsieur Watts said that the General was a madman who had been weaned on pate de foie gras.

  26. If one could always breakfast in a wood--upon pate de foie-gras and strawberries.

  27. So the Vicar laid hold of her hair, but he being shaved she could not have that advantage; so laying hold of his ears, and keeping his pate to the post, asked him how much he owed her?

  28. So you knave, quoth she, I must knock out of your bald pate my reckoning.

  29. A pot in your pate is a mile in your way: Come, bring out a bottle here presently, wife, Of the best Cheshire hum he e'er drank in his life.

  30. My neighbour owns the crown of the hill which he has shorn until it resembles the tonsured pate of a monk.

  31. It was red-brown, with a round curly pate and one white leg.

  32. I say, I will make him eate some part of my leeke, or I will peate his pate foure dayes: bite I pray you, it is good for your greene wound, and your ploodie Coxecombe Pist.

  33. I, Leekes is good: hold you, there is a groat to heale your pate Pist.

  34. Tell him Ile knock his Leeke about his Pate vpon S[aint].

  35. Was this taken By any understanding pate but thine?

  36. He applies the cudgel as vigorously to the priest's pate as to the Lolardes back.

  37. All the while Taka, who had cut that poor pate open, would be trilling abuse.

  38. Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of father Time himself.

  39. Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across.

  40. Mrs. Pate had it from a man on board, who had it from Cheveril himself.

  41. They only came to eat D'Angelis' excellent pate de foie gras and toss down my magnums of the best champagne.

  42. Let Mrs. Pate say what she likes, that boy is not an East Indian, Harry!

  43. Though one would never guess it from his appearance, she says, and the astonishing thing is that he isn't the least ashamed of the fact; but Mrs. Pate confesses he never alluded to the flaw in her hearing.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bean; brain; brow; crown; dome; head; headpiece; noddle; noggin; pate; poll; ridge; sconce; sensation


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    pate tendre; patent medicine; patent medicines; patent right; paternal authority; paternal government; paternal power; paternal uncle