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Example sentences for "rimmed"

Lexicographically close words:
rime; rimed; rimes; riming; rimless; rimming; rims; rimy; rin; rince
  1. Here lies a great lake, rimmed by broad borders of reeds, which shook and glistened in the wind and sun like the spears of half-drowned armies as we passed.

  2. Peace returned with Miss Royle, who came in with the morning paper, dismissed Jane, and settled down in the upholstered chair, silver-rimmed spectacles on nose.

  3. She regarded me over her gold-rimmed spectacles, and, shifting the scissors into her left hand, held out her right.

  4. She was tall, thin and angular, the thinness of her face accentuated by a pair of big horn-rimmed spectacles through which she glared at the newcomers.

  5. He was a small man, very short-sighted, whose gold-rimmed pince-nez would never stay on his nose.

  6. His nose was long and aquiline, and his eyes much magnified by a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles.

  7. But the next evening she again saw Gopher Prairie as her home, waiting for her in the sunset, rimmed round with splendor.

  8. As they returned in late afternoon the low sun was a solemnity of radial bands, like a heavenly fan of beaten gold; the limitless circle of the grain was a green sea rimmed with fog, and the willow wind-breaks were palmy isles.

  9. It contained an odd assortment of garments, and amongst other things several grey wigs and a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles.

  10. Danny entered the Lenox home up there on the sightly knoll, fashioned from chill-white stone, staring composedly down on the drive from its many black-rimmed windows.

  11. He put on his steel-rimmed spectacles and took down the greasy, cornerless deck of cards to shuffle them slowly, with method, as though it were a rite.

  12. With a sigh she dragged her heavy head up and her black-rimmed tragic eyes opened to them in an agony of weariness.

  13. He put out a hand to the whisky bottle, looking at her impatiently with red-rimmed eyes, and she had risen with a sigh, knowing it was time for her to go.

  14. He handed the drawing to Chauvin, and Chauvin, adjusting a pair of huge horn-rimmed spectacles upon his nose, examined it critically.

  15. It was just as the cats settled down to their feast that her ear caught a movement farther up the bank and a quick look showed her a very small man, wearing great horn rimmed glasses.

  16. She fell to thinking now of the two great cats and the little man with the wide-rimmed glasses.

  17. The Squire had fitted his gold-rimmed glasses on to his nose and tracked down the passage in his big Bible.

  18. He put on his gold-rimmed glasses and took up a menu-card.

  19. It contained an odd assortment of garments, and amongst other things several gray wigs and a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles.

  20. A little shining face came close for a moment against his own, rimmed with delicate spears of pink and white.

  21. But there was no awe-inspiring man, who looked at them affectionately through gold-rimmed spectacles while he told them about the sun and the moon and all the wonders of the world.

  22. Poverty did not come marching in close columns of workmen; its clothing was plentiful and varied; it might appear in the last woollen material from the big houses of old Copenhagen, or in gold-rimmed spectacles and high hat.

  23. But in falling it had rimmed the shore with a twenty-foot wall of stranded floes.

  24. Men stood aside for them, and looked after them enviously; for they took the rises of the trail on the run, and rattled down the counter slopes, and ground the iron-rimmed wheels harshly over the rocks.

  25. He fumbled in his waistcoat-pocket and found a black-rimmed monocle and inserted it in his eye.

  26. Kitson, his hands clasped behind his back under his tail coat, his gold-rimmed pince-nez perched on his nose, looked down at the young man.

  27. Such a spirit of jubilation possessed Barclay that when he reached his unadorned room and had changed his gold-rimmed glasses for his reading spectacles, he found that Greek for once did not satisfy.

  28. At daylight they found the Yukon, half a mile wide, running white from ice-rimmed bank to ice-rimmed bank.

  29. In the moment of illumination, they saw a long grey beard, massed with ice to the nose, cheeks that were white with frost, and closed eyes with frost-rimmed lashes frozen together.

  30. Moreover, from a slightly greater distance to his rear, another pair of little red-rimmed eyes, less curious and more angry, also held him under observation.

  31. The Dog that saved the Bridge I The old canal lay dreaming under the autumn sun, tranquil between its green banks and its two rows of stiffly-rimmed bordering poplars.

  32. From less than fifty yards ahead of him a little pair of red-rimmed eyes, half angry and half curious, were watching his every movement.

  33. He was small and thin, and weedy, with little blinking, pink-rimmed eyes of the kind which ought to have had white lashes instead of the sparse, jet black ones that rimmed them.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rimmed" 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:
    rimmed glasses; rimmed spectacles