Vibrate the fork and let the cork rest on the surface of water in a half-filled tumbler on the table.
Prepare a tumbler half full of artificial gastric juice as in the above experiment, and add 10 cubic centimeters of this to each of six clean test tubes bearing labels.
To a tumbler two thirds full of water add a little salt.
After holding the tumbler in this position for two or three minutes, remove and, keeping inverted, thrust a lighted splinter into it.
Starch "when in flour" and real flour could be differentiated by putting some of each into a tumbler of water.
Dick led the way back to the Brundage kitchen, where he made this strange servant sit down, and set before him half a tumbler of rum.
He sat down on the edge of the bed, put an arm round her shaking body, and held the tumbler towards her.
After the second half-tumbler the man wept, sobbing out entreaties for mercy.
He pushed past her, saw the rum-bottle and the eggs set out on the kitchen table, took a tumbler and spoon from the dresser, and broke the first egg into the glass.
I said not more than a tumbler of whisky before lunch.
I will, sir," replied the cabman, emptying histumbler by way of bracing himself up for the effort.
Shaking out into the tumbler a few crystals of potassium permanganate, I filled it up with water and approached the patient.
Faith seized the tray with the tumbler on it, and, anxious to help, dashed upstairs with it.
Fill a tumbler three parts full of pounded ice, to which add two wine-glasses of sherry, a tablespoonful of brandy, two teaspoonfuls of powdered sugar, and two or three small pieces of lemon.
Pour the mixture rapidly from one tumbler to another several times, throw in half a dozen strawberries, and drink the mixture through a straw, or stick of maccaroni.
Dreamt, one day, I was drinking a tumbler of Loddon wine; and asserted that Providence was the same also in the south.
The paper clings to the tumbler and prevents the water from escaping.
Thus if some table salt is placed in a tumbler of water the temperature of the solution is lowered several degrees below that of the salt and water used.
Why does a tumblerfilled with water and inverted in a dish with its rim under water remain full?
She twirled the tumblerjerkily between soft thumb and forefinger.
And even now when he spoke about her, as I have known him to do after a tumbler of grog, his hard grey eyes would glisten softly, like the vinery glass of an afternoon, when a spring cloud passes over it.
Then Bulwrag flung the other window up, cast the tumbler out of it, and lighted some pastilles.
Jim could merely stare from the tumbler and the marvel it walled in, to the man who had worked the miracle, and back to the tumbler again.
The miracle worker didn't lift his eyes from the tumbler and the very much alive and protesting bit of life it housed.
Countess, laughing, and giving him a tumbler of claret.
Suddenly it escaped her nervous fingers and rolled up against a tumblerwith a loud ringing sound.
Mr. Bumpkin paused in the act of passing the tumbler to his lips, like one who feels he has been artfully taken in.
It is needless to say that Mr. Mivers eschewed toddy; but beside him, on a chair, was a tumbler and a large carafe of iced water.
He opened a bottle of champagne, and Mountjoy took the tumbler that was filled for him.
That, I suppose, is the best argument on the other side, and if you look straight at it for six seconds, you will see it dissolve like a lump of sugar in a tumbler of water and disappear under your very eyes.
Pour a table-spoonful of capillaire, and the same of good vinegar, into a tumbler of fresh cold water.
Half an ounce of Epsom salts, dissolved in a tumbler or two of cold water, and drank at intervals, will have a very salutary effect.
General, who, with inimitable sang froid, was sipping a tumbler of orgeat.
He drank a mouthful of the water, and then looked into the tumbler with the shrewd eye of the naturalist searching for infusoria.
He therefore sat silent and staring with open mouth, until at length, not knowing anything better to do, he mechanically raised the tumbler of toddy and poured the whole of it into that open mouth.
Perhaps it's a tumbler ye'll be wantin'," said he.
Hereupon "His Majesty" began to brew a tumbler of toddy.
God's will be done;" and after that pious adjuration, my father turned down his tumbler No.
Here my uncle applied the tumbler to his face to conceal his emotion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumbler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
