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Example sentences for "talcum"

Lexicographically close words:
tal; tala; talapoins; talc; talcose; tald; tale; talebearer; talem; talent
  1. If there is a tendency to chafe during the day, use talcum powder, putting the mutton tallow on at night when the child will be quiet, giving it an opportunity to heal.

  2. The following is good to dust in the parts:-- Boric Acid 2 drams Stearate of Zinc 2 drams Talcum 1 dram Apply as a dusting powder.

  3. Then it is coated with a mixture of glucose and talcum and polished.

  4. A dusting powder of finely ground talcum is good.

  5. Talcum powder hides the fact that his nose is shiny and somewhat pink.

  6. To the damp funeral smell of the flowers at the altar, there has been added the cacodorous scents of forty or fifty different brands of talcum and rice powder.

  7. Her face is thickly encrusted with talcum in its various forms, so that she is almost a dead white.

  8. Of his own initiative, he approached the lady god again, attracted by the talcum powder and other minor fragrances he had already identified as the strange scents encountered on the beach.

  9. What bothered him in his smelling was his ignorance of talcum powder.

  10. I dried her as quickly as possible, then covered her with talcum powder, and kept her shut up in the hospital all day.

  11. The men were always deeply grateful to get talcum powder for use after shaving.

  12. It seemed somehow to help to keep up the morale of the army, that talcum powder, a little bit of the soothing refinement of the home that seemed so far away.

  13. Now wipe off all surplus cream and dust them with talcum powder.

  14. First bathe your feet in cold salt water, then rub in the balm, massaging it well into the feet at night, and powder freely with talcum in the morning.

  15. It is put out by the “House of Mennen,” which sells various toilet preparations such as talcum powder, shaving soap, etc.

  16. What do you want; talcum powder or court plaster?

  17. For all practical purposes it is essentially a camphorated talcum powder.

  18. Now, next in case the man who cleans our windows doesn't put the soap in the sugar bowl and make the gold fish sing like a canary bird, I'll tell you about Jumpo and the talcum powder.

  19. Mother isn't home to-day," so into the bathroom those two animal boys went, and they hunted all over for the talcum powder.

  20. So he pounded on the top of the tin talcum powder box.

  21. But they were soon clean and they smelled like perfume for a long time after that, and the next time Jumpo wanted talcum powder he asked his mamma for it, and he didn't try to open the box himself.

  22. So Jumpo curled up his tail, reached it up and wound it around the box just as an elephant in the circus winds his trunk around a peanut, and the monkey boy lifted down the talcum powder box.

  23. It is assumed that vaseline, cold cream, hand lotion, talcum powder, and other toilet preparations will also be available.

  24. A little talcum powder, French chalk, or powdered boracic acid dusted on the table makes the stock handle easier.

  25. The Duchess is going to talcum powder the baby now--it's just had a bath.

  26. And with a brush made from the end of a soft fern he began to clean his teeth with the talcum powder which Lulu gave him.

  27. And I haven't my talcum powder pop gun that shoots bean-bag bullets!

  28. And if the looking glass doesn't make faces at the hairbrush and knock the teeth out of the comb so it can't have fun and bite the talcum powder, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and Tweedledum.

  29. If you are, I'll bring my talcum powder gun along this time, to keep away the mosquitoes.

  30. She isn't going to talcum powder the baby with pepper, is she?

  31. I guess your talcum powder was too strong for him, Lulu, my dear.

  32. Uncle Wiggily was very brave, you know, even if he only had his red, white and blue striped rheumatism crutch instead of the talcum powder popgun that shot bean-bag bullets.

  33. It's so warm, and the prickly heat bothers me so that I can hardly think of anything but that I'm going in and get some talcum powder.

  34. The spicy scent of the perfumed talcum powder mingled with the odor of the grass, the trees, and the flowers, over which the bees were humming.

  35. A powder box and puff, with talcum powder.

  36. Powder is not essential; but if it is desired, a plain talcum powder may be used.

  37. When he had finished spilling the talcum powder all over the floor, using my brushes for his hair, he turned round and looked over the provisions.

  38. Another way of finishing the dressing is to dust some ordinary talcum powder on the last layer of the paste, giving the bandage the appearance of a plaster-of-Paris dressing.

  39. Mennen's Talcum Powder was produced by Gerhard Mennen, who had his own picture put on each package as an identification to the purchaser.

  40. There are hundreds of brands of talcum powder sold in the United States; but you will find in your canvass that only three or four are mentioned at all, and that one of them leads all the rest by a decisive majority.

  41. The enviable position of this particular talcum powder is the sum total of many years' advertising and trade-mark publicity.

  42. The rice will enter the pot unwashed and will transfer its talcum and glucose to our intestines.

  43. But why, in the name even of an adulterous and adulterating generation, should rice be "coated with talcum and glucose," as this sack unblushingly confesses?

  44. The stomachs and bowels of dogs and men in the country are doubtless gradually becoming "coated with talcum and glucose.

  45. They would dust talcum powder on the cylinder tops, or tie a piece of baby-blue ribbon on the pet-cock when they had exhausted every other means of making a rebellious motor operate.

  46. So they were rather superstitious about it, and they did carry a tin of talcum powder with them, much to the amusement of the girls.

  47. They even did more absurd things, such as the talcum powder act, while Jack spouted some Latin verses at the forward cylinder.

  48. But where an unpleasant odor from the genitals, feet or armpits is present the proper treatment should be applied, and in such cases the use of a delicate perfume, sachet or scented talcum powder, is quite permissible.

  49. I know it's so because I just sold one of the great-granddaughters some hair straightener and a box of flea powder and she thought of getting some talcum powder for the new baby, but decided to use flea powder instead.

  50. She gave an animated recommendation of powders from talcum to insect.

  51. Its foci were Sylvia Huntington, the beautiful multi-millionairess, and Richard Benham, nephew of Minim, the Cosmetic King and head of the Talcum Trust.

  52. And finally when the machine went over a bump the cork came out of the box of talcum powder and it flew in the face of Uncle Wiggily and the late scholar and they both sneezed so hard that the auto stopped.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "talcum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.