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Example sentences for "slicing"

Lexicographically close words:
sley; slice; sliced; slicer; slices; slick; slicked; slicker; slickers; slickest
  1. I'd been slicing with it for a month; so I smashed the damned shaft.

  2. Why, he speared a nice juicy nine on Seventeen; and he picked up his ball on Eighteen, after slicing one square into the middle of Hell's Half Acre.

  3. Windy began driving all over the shop, hooking and slicing tremendously, and Kitts manhandled his irons in a manner fit to make a hardened professional weep.

  4. The proper quantity of the ingredients being taken, the whole is well bruised or reduced to coarse powder, or otherwise divided by slicing with a knife, that every portion may be fully exposed to the solvent action of the fluid.

  5. He sat, slicing his whip-lash into the snow, and watched the young man's bitter anger with huge enjoyment.

  6. And he stopped slicing up the sheet of tintypes, slammed it on the floor, drove out old Bailey, nailed up the door of the saloon, and started for the big woods with his few possessions on his back.

  7. O'Malley dived and was on his tail, slicing away great chunks of the Jerry's ship.

  8. He returned the compliment paid him by slicing the top off the Messerschmitt's hatch cover.

  9. Below them two motor launches were slicing across the channel getting set to pick up the Jerries and make them prisoners.

  10. The Major blinked and went on slicing ham industriously.

  11. She had buttered and sliced bread until her back ached, and she cast many angry glances at her ruddy-faced father tranquilly slicing ham in the pantry.

  12. Without a word, Linda stepped to the bread board and began slicing the bread and building sandwiches, while Katy hurried her preparations for filling the lunch box.

  13. If hard up against it, even the strongest driver cannot send the ball through it; and it gives occasion for pulling and slicing round it which are good fun and good practice.

  14. Only a few days before the illness of the barber, he had seen her slicing potatoes to fry, and the operation had suggested a potato slicer, which would answer equally well for cucumbers, onions, and apples.

  15. I shall go into the boot-jack business next; and I hope to get up my machine for slicing potatoes, and such things, soon.

  16. The operation consists in slicing up the beets in a specially constructed slicing machine, into slices of regular thickness, and then allowing the slices to macerate in a series of vats at stated temperatures.

  17. The water rushing down the inclined trough carries with it all dirt and stones, and by the time the beets have reached the upper end they are entirely cleaned and ready for slicing or rasping.

  18. A few good paring knives, some plates, and if possible some cutting or slicing device to lighten the work of preparation are all that are necessary.

  19. Prepare the product by slicing and so on.

  20. If you have a vegetable slicer it can be used for slicing the beans.

  21. A sharp kitchen knife will serve every purpose in slicing and cutting fruits for drying, if no other device is at hand.

  22. Onions should be held under water while peeling and slicing to avoid smarting of the eyes.

  23. Then the self-slicing sword and the beasts fell upon him, and tore him into little bits.

  24. But the moment the dragon appeared and opened his mouth to devour the Tsarivna, the little Tsar cried to his self-slicing sword, "Fall upon him!

  25. Then the self-slicing sword cut him into little bits, and his beasts knew nothing about it, for they were sleeping after their labours.

  26. I was just wondering what there was about slicing cold ham that called for such absorbing interest," cried Betty who vacillated between the kitchen and the dining-room.

  27. Each one was attending strictly to the task before him, and resolving to embrace the opportunity to talk a few moments with Fairfax Johnson, Peggy took the loaf of bread she was cutting over to the table where the youth was slicing ham.

  28. A Damascus sabre regards neither joints nor bones, but goes slicing through, and you cannot feel any dint on the edge thereof.

  29. Could you not give me ocular proof of the merit of your Damascus, and at the same time of your own expertness, by slicing off, en passant, the head of one of the oxen we are now approaching?

  30. Many persons, in carving salmon, make the mistake of slicing the thick part of this fish in the opposite direction to that we have stated; and thus, by the breaking of the flakes, the beauty of its appearance is destroyed.

  31. There are some who like to carve a ham by cutting a hole at the top, and then slicing pieces off inside the hole, gradually enlarging the circle; but we think this a plan not to be recommended.

  32. This will obviate the common error of slicing off to the sideline and will tend to pull the ball, into court.

  33. The common error of slicing the backhand cannot be too strongly emphasized and condemned and cross courting the shot tends to avoid it.

  34. Wilbur could only see a few little holes in the bark, but the old woodsman, slicing off a section, showed the tree girdled with the galleries that the beetle had made.

  35. Plantain meal is prepared by stripping off the husk of the plantain, slicing the core, and drying it the sun.

  36. And, in order that the slicing would be accurate, there was another frame, to which the prisoner was tied so that he couldn't wiggle either way.

  37. The slicing and patching proves it, and so do lots of other things.

  38. Mrs. Sieppe was found by her harassed husband helping Trina with the waist of her gown when she should have been slicing cold chicken in the kitchen.

  39. Look here, Mac," said Trina, slicing a bit of bacon as thinly as she could.

  40. Metje fell to slicing the black loaf, Jacqueline stirred the porridge, while the mother herself presided over the pot of cabbage-soup which had been stewing over the fire since early morning.

  41. Her captain let us have considerable potatoes, and, by slicing them up thin and chewing them up raw good and fine, what was left of us were nearly well when we got to San Francisco.

  42. He raised the knife with which he was slicing bacon and pointed it at the bear to emphasize his command.

  43. If both meat and gravy remain from a roast, a very excellent luncheon dish may be made by slicing the meat thin, placing it on slices of bread, and pouring the gravy, which has been heated, over both the bread and meat.

  44. The line of the slicing was barely visible.

  45. He finished by slicing the air with his hand in a gesture of flat refusal.

  46. Pike who was slicing bacon into a skillet.

  47. That stolid genius was already slicing deer meat for broiling, and making coffee, of which he donated a bowl to Kit, also a cart wheel of a tortilla dipped in gravy.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slicing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amputation; cleavage; cutting; dichotomy; division; excision; fission; laceration; mutilation; partition; rationing; resection; ripping; scission; section; severance; sharing; slashing; splitting; surgery