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Example sentences for "vase"

Lexicographically close words:
vasallos; vascular; vascularity; vasculosa; vasculum; vasectomy; vaseline; vases; vash; vasi
  1. Trim the seams caused by the sections of the mold; then take a piece of soft flannel cloth, dip it in the refined spirits of turpentine and polish the vase with it, after which it is ready for bronzing.

  2. Among the articles described are a vase in bronze, a motto in bronze, a floral basket in bronze, animals and birds in bronze, statuary in bronze, flowers and leaves in bronze.

  3. When all the leaves are finished, weave them into a spray, grading them from large to small till the end of the vine is reached, then bronze and drape around the vase in an easy, natural way.

  4. For instruction, let us take a vase to be finished in copper bronze.

  5. Another style of motto is a vase in the center, from which vines in different colors of bronze run.

  6. Hyde also tells us that infants were brought to the temples and baptized by the priests, sometimes by sprinkling and sometimes by immersion, plunging the child into a large vase filled with water.

  7. Sometimes he plunged it into a great vase full of water: it was in the same ceremony that the father gave a name to the child.

  8. A statuette or vase came crashing to the floor, and, raising the lamp high above her head, she threw its light upon the struggling men.

  9. Nero offered to Jupiter Capitolinus the first trimmings of his beard in a magnificent vase enriched with the costliest pearls.

  10. And I thought of the time we went to meet you at the chinampa, and of how he gave you a vase from the 'tzin, and one to Nenetzin from himself.

  11. As she raised the gift, her hand trembled; then he discovered how precious a simple Cholulan vase could become; and with that his real task was before him.

  12. Under his arm he took an earthen vase filled with oil.

  13. Put on your best tilmatli, and above all else, beware that the vase holding this liquor is not empty when I call for it.

  14. Going to a table close by, he commenced despoiling a vase of flowers.

  15. Lying down again, and twanging the chord of his bow, he endeavored to compose a speech to accompany the delivery of the vase to Tula.

  16. Sentences: The of the flowers in the vase mingled with the of boiling cabbage in the kitchen.

  17. You may , you may the vase if you will.

  18. Keats's original tracing from the Sosibios vase was in the collection of Sir Charles Dilke and is reproduced on the frontispiece of the Clarendon Press edition of Keats's poems, 1906.

  19. Do you know he has found a treasure, he says, in his father's garden--a vase full of gold?

  20. Each of the young judges were to signify their choice by putting a red or a white shell into a vase prepared for the purpose.

  21. The table was now set in the arbour--the vase was now placed in the middle.

  22. This vase was imbedded in the masonry, evidently later restorations of the earlier buildings of Gudea.

  23. A large vase of the same expensive flowers adorned one corner of her desk.

  24. Upon the rosewood cabinet stood a vase with fresh flowers--hyacinths and crocuses.

  25. As they struggled to and fro the table was overturned and the vase dashed into a thousand fragments.

  26. He uncovered the vase and threw the faded rose into the water which it contained.

  27. Again he filled their glasses with the liquor of youth, enough of which still remained in the vase to turn half the old people in the city to the age of their own grandchildren.

  28. It was now so nearly sunset that the chamber had grown duskier than ever, but a mild and moonlike splendor gleamed from within the vase and rested alike on the four guests and on the doctor's venerable figure.

  29. On the summer afternoon of our tale a small round table as black as ebony stood in the centre of the room, sustaining a cut-glass vase of beautiful form and elaborate workmanship.

  30. The darkness enabled the half-blinded visitor, coming in out of the bright light, to knock over gracefully a $200 vase that had come from Japan to meet disaster in New York.

  31. In the centre of the room stood a pedestal of black marble, and upon it rested a huge silver vase encrusted with ornamentation.

  32. The lady who bought my brother Saladin's vase was the favourite of the Sultan, and all-powerful in the seraglio.

  33. It was impossible for me to hesitate; gratitude for my brother's generous kindness overcame my superstitious obstinacy, and I sent him word I would carry the vase to him myself.

  34. I quitted Constantinople; my vase I had left in the care of my brother.

  35. The next day the lady returned, and my brother sold his vase to her for ten thousand pieces of gold.

  36. This seems undoubtedly to be beautiful china," said the sultan, taking up one of the broken pieces; "but can the loss of a china vase be the cause of such violent grief and despair?

  37. I urged him to speak freely, and he then told me the favourite declared nothing would make her amends for the loss of the mirror but the fellow-vase to that which she had bought from Saladin.

  38. If venom or poison be put in a vase of fine porcelain, it breaks immediately.

  39. The vase paintings of the Greeks illustrate every phase of private life, and abound in representations of the maiden and the matron, in the home, at the loom, in the bridal procession, at the wedding.

  40. In Japan it is thought an art to know how to place one spray in a vase in such a way as to show all its beauty.

  41. The screens are carefully wiped, the mats receive an extra shaking, and then mamma brings out her choicest vase from the storehouse and places it on a beautiful, ebony stand in the place of honour.

  42. The soldier stooped to recover them; and at that moment the King struck him on the head with his battle-axe, crying 'Thus didst thou to the vase at Soissons.

  43. I left, merely glanced at, in my opening chapter, the story of the vase of Soissons.

  44. Pa kep' a piece of that vase fer a long time.

  45. Mabel put the rose into a specimen vase with immense care and touched a speck off its petals with her fingers.

  46. Each vase was filled to precisely half its capacity with water.

  47. The vase was now between himself and Sabre.

  48. Low Jinks removed her mistress's cover and Mr. Boom Bagshaw pushed aside a flower vase to obtain a view.

  49. While he was waiting for the pot to be swathed in crimped paper, his eye was caught by a large bunch of red and yellow roses, which stood in a vase at the back of the counter.

  50. Maurice jerked his arm; a vase which was standing at his elbow upset, and the water trickled to the floor.

  51. Even as she said it, like a flash, she seized a heavy glass vase from the table and hurled it straight at the King.

  52. The chandelier and side-lights were burning, and a huge vase lamp, pink shaded, was on the large table in the centre.

  53. The vase missed him by the fraction of an inch and crashed to bits against the opposite wall.


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