Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "victual"

Lexicographically close words:
victoriously; victors; victory; victorye; victrola; victualed; victualing; victuall; victualled; victualler
  1. There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand Bare victual for the movers.

  2. Then he took of the dirhams in his pouch and bought him victual for the way and hired a hackney and set out for Ispahan, leaving his wife to the trooper.

  3. Many shipowners came forward, offering not only to lend but to victual their own ships for the service.

  4. They began to victual and fortify themselves in these positions, to the alarm of their neighbours, until the Duke of Britanny felt it necessary to complain to the Duke of Somerset, requesting that they might be dislodged.

  5. Thy mouth--that fissure in thy face By something like a chin,-- May be a very useful place To put thy victual in.

  6. I always thought cold victual nice-- My choice would be vanilla-ice.

  7. By land it is more impossible to approach; for it hath the strongest situation of any region under the sun, and it is so environed with impassable mountains on every side, as it is impossible to victual any company in the passage.

  8. The further we went on, our victual decreasing and the air breeding great faintness, we grew weaker and weaker, when we had most need of strength and ability.

  9. Lured by the scent of victual from the skies.

  10. He takes the reins, his courser backs again, Grasps the enchanted bugle in his hand; And to the sewer next signs to have the board Anew with hospitable victual stored.

  11. The Nubian prince commands the menial crew Forthwith to bring the hospitable cheer; And hopes that now the foul, rapacious band, Will not dare snatch the victual from his hand.

  12. They'd victual him and give him clothes, for even Garland, reckless with anxiety, did not dare show himself in the open as he now was, a figure to catch the attention of the most unsuspicious.

  13. Jim Bailey thought they'd take on some men at Plymouth when they stopped there to victual up.

  14. After they had gone on a while, he entered the hall, and found it empty from end to end, and no sound in it save the tinkling of the fountain; but there was victual set on the board.

  15. Then King Shehriman proceeded to equip his daughter for her journey with her husband and father-in-law and let bring them victual and gifts and rarities.

  16. Have I set foot in thy country and tasted the sweetness of thy favours," replied Sherkan, "and shall I return without eating of thy victual and tasting thy hospitality?

  17. Then the stoker provided himself with victual for the journey, and they waited till it was dark night, when they laid their provisions and baggage on the ass and set out on their journey.

  18. So they agreed upon this, and he betook himself to preparing victual for the marriage festivities.

  19. Thou knowest that the news of thy passion for Kuzia Fekan is noised abroad everywhere and how thou eatest their victual and makest love to their daughter.

  20. Here they felt themselves in safety and halted to rest; and the country people came out to them with guest-gifts and victual and fodder for the cattle.

  21. T was he gave leave to that thief Richard Lyons and the Lord Latimer to buy away all victual they might lay hand to.

  22. The City agreed, moreover, to re-victual the ships it had furnished and to provide them with munition and other requisites.

  23. So I fitted out a great ship at Bassora and loaded her with merchandise and victual and other necessaries for a voyage, and said to my sisters, "Will you come with me or abide at home till I return?

  24. Then he took out food and ate and fared on again in the direction of the desert, after having bought victual and fodder for the mule in the town.

  25. I sold it for half a dinar, with part of which I bought victual and laid up the rest.

  26. Then her friend gave her as much victual as would suffice herself and her family a whole month, and she took it and returned to her lodging.

  27. His host provided him with victual and embarked him in the ship; and it set sail and arrived, in due course, at the coast of Syria, where he landed and journeyed till he entered Damascus.

  28. Then he made ready victual and carriage for the journey and going in to his daughter by night, bade her make ready to set out on a pleasure-excursion.

  29. The man took him home and entreated him hospitably, then, furnishing him with victual [for the voyage] and giving him somewhat of money, embarked him on board the vessel bound for Damietta.

  30. But God forfend that ever other victual should follow upon such noble meat the heart of so valiant and so courteous a gentleman as was Sir Guillaume de Guardestaing!

  31. She let him taste her honey and wine[FN#183] before his death: This was his last of victual until the Judgment Day.

  32. The French ambassador put forward his proposal, that the republic should permit their army to pass through her States, and pledge herself in that case to supply for ready money all the necessary victual and fodder.

  33. Thereafter the Baron assailed the walls no more, but cast a dyke around the town and sat down before it; and he had abundance of victual coming in to him from his countryside, so that his men lacked nothing.

  34. Said Sir Degore, without tarrying the word one moment: "There is a great aid and refreshment come to us out of the East country, both of victual and men, and our folk be welcoming the men and sharing the victual.

  35. But now was riding and running after victual for so big a company of men; for nought would serve the folk of Wethermel but that the whole fellowship must abide there that night.

  36. Proceeding to victual Adare, he experienced a similar check, losing among others Sir Henry Norris, the third of those brave brothers who had fallen a victim to these Irish wars.

  37. General Norris, having arranged his plan of campaign at Newry, attempted to victual Armagh, besieged by O'Neil, but was repulsed by that leader after a severe struggle.

  38. The King having done what he wished, which was to victual Landresy, withdrew his army to Guise, which was the day after All Saints, 1544; and from there I returned to Paris.

  39. The King raised a great army to victual Landresy.

  40. Ho, what good victual men found lying in the ashes!

  41. With them rode Siegfried in lordly guise; many kinds of victual did they take along.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "victual" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cater; coal; feed; forage; fuel; gas; keep; oil; provide; provision; sell; supply