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Example sentences for "sideboard"

Lexicographically close words:
sicond; sicrety; sicut; sicuti; side; sideboards; sided; sidedly; sidedness; sidehill
  1. He paused at the sideboard finally and poured himself a steadying drink.

  2. Bob went to the little sideboard and helped himself to a stiff drink.

  3. The sideboard too was there, larger and richer perhaps, of Spanish mahogany not an inch of which was left bare of garlands of flowers or archangelic faces.

  4. His eyes fixed on the sideboard as if he were mesmerised by the cruets.

  5. The sideboard shone dully through its covering of coarse net.

  6. On the sideboard fat peaches were heaped in a modern Lowestoft bowl, and amber-coloured plums lay like portly dowagers in velvet.

  7. A sideboard without brandy or rum was an exception, while the jug was imperative at every log-raising and in the harvest field.

  8. He had almost reached the sideboard when the stout man patted the girl's cheek, and to seize a huckleberry pie was with him the work of a moment.

  9. The history of sideboard design might be cited in proof of this statement, if proof were needed.

  10. Illustration: A round dining table] [Illustration: A sideboard of good proportions.

  11. The unique purpose of the sideboard makes it an interesting study for one who wishes to design and construct his own in conformity with the architecture of his dining-room.

  12. Left alone, Elizabeth looked round the cherished room and noticed that dust lay thick on the sideboard that Mrs. Veitch had dusted so frequently and so proudly, and that the crochet antimacassars on the sofa hung all awry.

  13. Tiffany, who was now in the secret, pretended to be busy at a sideboard so as to stay in the room.

  14. He that is as rich as a Jew, that has a treasure of gold plate in his sideboard that would keep the King in arms and men for a month of Sundays, he so to slander my poverty.

  15. That larger sideboard would also have stood in the way, but those glass handles aren't the originals.

  16. The chief sideboard boasted not the tiniest bit of brass; even the handles were of cheap glass, and Clem had set candle-sticks upon it that were nothing but pewter.

  17. Aunt Delia had quite the newest and most fashionable furniture in town; her parlor was a feast of color for any eye, and her fine hardwood sideboard alone had cost twenty-two dollars, so she spoke as one having authority.

  18. The plain old sideboard for a hundred and ten dollars only fed the flames.

  19. The dining-room table and sideboard were at the other house, the plates, and forks, and spoons here.

  20. The little round table, the sideboard and the chairs were all painted a soft cream color, and on each chair back, and the sideboard drawers and doors sprays of tinty, tiny flowers were painted.

  21. The dining-room was long, massively furnished, well lit, and the sideboard exposed some rare pieces of old-fashioned silver.

  22. They finished the meal leisurely; but on rising from the table Captain Rugley removed a heavy belt and holster from its hook behind the sideboard and slung it about his hips.

  23. Philip strode through the rooms, looked under the dining-room table and into the sideboard cupboards; on through the butler's pantry, and into the kitchens.

  24. The sideboard was at the opposite end, back of the hall, and it was directly in front of the sideboard that Somers' body lay.

  25. If Vicky or rather, if Julie had straightened up things on the sideboard in the process of tidying up for the party, would she not have laid the fork a different way, unless there had been a matching knife to lay across it?

  26. He brought brandy and water from the sideboard with no stinting hand, and within ten minutes Mr. Carewe was in his accustomed seat, competent to finish his breakfast.

  27. On the sideboard or on the table are two or three "hot water" dishes (with or without spirit lamps underneath).

  28. Cold meats are, in the English service, put whole on the sideboard and the family and guests cut off what they choose themselves.

  29. When brother returned it was our turn to be astonished to see these beautiful decanter stands, fit to grace the sideboard of any mansion in the land, and they were mine, and also the slug which brother tossed into my lap.

  30. He did not move when the candles were brought in and placed on the mantelpiece and sideboard in exactly the position in which they had stood for the last century, but remained by the window looking out on to the evening.

  31. This time the glasses on the sideboard rang, and Joseph got up, walked to the window and looked out.

  32. I shook them again, and one part went round the extinguisher support, which the reptile dislodged, so that the extinguisher rattled upon the sideboard top.

  33. A safe rule for the spacing of dowels when jointing sideboard tops, dressing table and wardrobe ends, etc.

  34. Part of Sideboard Top; grooved with ends left blind.

  35. And this British sideboard breakfast was a concession wrung from him through force of sheer necessity, although the custom had already become practically universal in American country houses where guests were entertained.

  36. The sideboard he had got at an old second-hand shop in the North End; and he believed it was an heirloom from the house of one of the old ministers of the North End Church.

  37. He said to her, apart, "Young Munger has been telling me that Putney got at the sideboard and carried off the rum.

  38. I found the darlingest old sideboard with claw-feet yesterday over on Fourth Avenue.

  39. He went towards the sideboard on which stood his spirit-case.

  40. As he said this he went towards the spirit-case on the little old oak sideboard and took out the whiskey decanter.

  41. A rich turkey carpet lay on the polished oak floor, and the sideboard and mantel-piece were of carved oak.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sideboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beam; billet; board; cabinet; clapboard; cord; cupboard; deal; firewood; lath; log; lumber; paneling; plank; planking; plywood; pole; post; shake; sheathing; sheeting; shingle; siding; slab; slat; softwood; splat; stave; stick; table; timber; weatherboard; wood