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Example sentences for "rub"

Lexicographically close words:
rtius; rtner; rttemberg; rua; ruat; ruban; rubato; rubbe; rubbed; rubber
  1. When you merely want to corn meat, you have nothing to do but to rub in salt plentifully, and let it set in the cellar a day or two.

  2. If you wish to give a fine soft polish to varnished furniture, and remove any slight imperfections, rub it once or twice a week with pulverized rotten-stone and linseed oil, and afterward wipe clean with a soft silk rag.

  3. If it has dried in, rub table-salt upon it, and drop lemon-juice upon the salt.

  4. When ivory-handled knives turn yellow, rub them with nice sand paper, or emery; it will take off the spots, and restore their whiteness.

  5. Either rub the articles dry with a soft cloth, or put them between two towels, and press them with weights.

  6. First baste them with molasses; next rub in the salt-petre; and, last of all, the common salt.

  7. Into the remainder of the flour rub butter thoroughly with your hands, until it is so short that a handful of it, clasped tight, will remain in a ball, without any tendency to fall in pieces.

  8. The old-fashioned way for curing hams is to rub them with salt very thoroughly, and let them lay twenty-four hours.

  9. When boil'd till tender they have been, I rub through a sieve the peas so green.

  10. In that case, signior, I may take my leave; I came to ask a favor--but I grieve.

  11. John Bull was in his very worst of moods, Raving of sterile farms and unsold goods; His sugar-loaves and bales about he threw, And on his counter beat the devil's tattoo.

  12. Put one pint of milk in a double boiler, add one pint of grated corn, two teaspoonfuls of salt; rub together one tablespoonful of flour and one of butter.

  13. To polish hardwood floors, use equal parts of vinegar, turpentine and olive oil, thoroughly mixed: Rub in and polish with soft cloth.

  14. Add this mixture to corn and season with salt, pepper, rub through sieve, heat again.

  15. When she went to lay herself down to rest on the bed, she did call me to rub her head.

  16. Often I rub her head, for it is often she does have longings to have it so.

  17. I rub their heads; for when the mamma is tired she does like rubs on her head.

  18. The vixen of the fox is a saute[93] (in heat) once in the year.

  19. When this has stiffened, make a "slip" or cream of clay and water, rub this all over the pot inside and out; use your fingers and a knife to make it smooth and even.

  20. Now rub glue on the wooden pegs and sprinkle them with powdered rotten wood, or fine sand, and you have a Burr Porcupine.

  21. There were few better men than my Uncle Corny, and no woman better than my Aunt Parslow; and they might rub on together rarely, if each would let the other rub, fair turn and turn about.

  22. Then Tabby had to rub me with the mustard oil; and the more I groaned, the surer she became of its effect.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rub" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abrade; afflict; agonize; annoy; bake; bandage; bar; bathe; bite; block; blockade; blot; breath; brush; buff; burn; burnish; caress; catch; chafe; character; characterize; chart; clash; climacteric; clutch; conflict; contact; contention; convulse; cordon; crimp; crisis; crossroads; crucify; crunch; crux; cure; curtain; cut; deity; delineate; depict; deterrent; diagnose; diagram; difficulty; discord; disharmony; distress; doctor; drain; draw; drawback; dress; dry; emergency; enmity; erode; evaporate; excoriate; exigency; extremity; feel; feeling; fester; finish; fire; flick; flux; fondle; fray; fret; friction; furbish; gall; glance; glaze; gloss; gnaw; goddess; grate; graze; grind; gripe; hamper; harrow; hazard; heal; hinge; hit; hitch; hurdle; hurt; impediment; impinge; incompatibility; inflame; irritate; jangle; jar; joker; kiln; kiss; knead; lacerate; lap; lick; limn; luster; map; martyr; massage; mischief; mountain; nip; nose; nudge; nurse; nuzzle; objection; obstacle; obstruction; pain; paint; parch; pass; pet; picture; pierce; pinch; plaster; portray; poultice; prick; print; purge; push; rack; rankle; rasp; reduce; register; remedy; render; represent; rub; rubbing; ruffle; scorch; scour; scrape; scratch; scrub; sear; shave; shine; shrivel; skim; skirt; sleek; slick; smear; smoke; snag; splint; sponge; spread; stab; sting; strait; strap; stroke; sun; swab; symbolize; tap; tension; torment; torture; touch; touching; towel; trace; traverse; treat; turn; tweak; twist; unpleasantness; varnish; wax; weazen; whisper; wipe; wither; wizen; wound; wring; write


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rubbed smooth; rubbed through; rubber band; rubber boots; rubber tree; rubber tube; rubber tubing