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Example sentences for "wafer"

Lexicographically close words:
waeful; waehrend; waere; waes; waesome; wafered; wafers; waffle; waffles; waft
  1. The personages whom the Church has most honoured for learning and holiness are ranged in picturesque and animated groups on either side of the altar, on which the consecrated wafer is exposed.

  2. I felt very clean after it, but I trembled so when I was given the holy wafer that a bit of it stuck in my teeth.

  3. Then I was wildly frightened, for Madeleine had warned us that if we bit the holy wafer the blood of Christ would stream from our mouths, and that nobody would be able to stop it.

  4. There is a man out west, so forgetful, that his wife has to put a wafer on the end of her nose, that he may distinguish her from the other ladies; but this does not prevent him from making occasional mistakes.

  5. Take the wafer off your nose, my dear, and put it on your lips!

  6. The poor woman goes herself to the Jew to try to get her cloak back, and is then persuaded to filch a wafer at mass and bring it to the Jew, on his promise to restore her garment.

  7. I must leave a little wafer space, which brings me to an apology for a conclusion.

  8. One teaspoonful of sugar should then be added to the wafer batter.

  9. The wafer iron she possessed was brought by her Grandmother from Germany.

  10. Mary, have you ever eaten a small, sweet wafer called 'Zimmet Waffle?

  11. The waffle or wafer irons might be obtained in this country.

  12. Place a piece of dough as large as a small marble in a small hot, well-greased waffle or wafer iron.

  13. Place in hot buttered wafer irons, hold over fire and bake.

  14. A piece of dough the size of a small marble was placed in the wafer iron, which was then pressed together and held over the fire in the range, by a long handle, until the wafer was crisp and brown.

  15. Dampier was of this number, also Captain John Cook, Captain Edward Davis, and Lionel Wafer who wrote the journal of the voyage.

  16. We did not leave the island, however, without paying a visit to its governor, Gissler, whose little settlement is on Wafer Bay.

  17. Wafer has given the following description of this popular resort for treasure seekers of modern times: "The middle of Cocos Island is a steep hill, surrounded with a plain declining to the sea.

  18. William," said the other, coaxingly, "you had better lie down and let me make some wafer soup for you.

  19. The doctrine of Popish priests in adoring a wafer made of bread and water, and their mode of manufacturing the wafer into God, is not only blasphemous, but extremely ludicrous.

  20. With these forged instruments, they attempt to show that the primitive Christians believed in the real and actual presence of the whole body and blood of Christ, in the wafer which they call the Eucharist.

  21. He too put down his tea-cup and his wafer side by side on the floor near his chair.

  22. I don't speak to folks that don't speak to me," said Dickie, lifting the wafer as though its extreme lightness was faintly repulsive to him.

  23. A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

  24. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper.

  25. It is the universal rule among priests to fast before saying Mass, and never to take the wafer or body of Christ upon a full stomach.

  26. A man may have the finest scientific faculty, the most advanced scientific culture, and still believe the consecrated wafer to the body of Jesus Christ.

  27. To say that a wafer consists of alum, borax and boric acid inspires but little awe.

  28. The letter making these offers mentioned incidentally: “Besides our product Thymozene we have been forced to add a Uterine Wafer to be used in connection with hot Thymozene douches in Leucorrhea.

  29. At last all parties laughed aloud, and Mr Tooke handed Hugh his wafer-glass, and bade him wafer up his letter, and by all means send it.

  30. He let Hugh direct his letter, and paint up a stroke or two which did not look so well as the rest; and it was not till Hugh was rolling the wafer about on his tongue that he interfered.

  31. My nearest neighbour, to my great annoyance, was a butcher's bill, with whom every jolt brought me in contact; the dirty thing had a wet wafer prest down by a greasy thumb.

  32. Wafer (America) was disqualified for going outside the wood.

  33. If you don't want the wafer I'll take it home and put it between the sashes of my bedroom window.

  34. This is the staple of the Norwegian's living; it is a coarse bread made of dark flour, in cakes as thin as a wafer and as big round as a barrel.

  35. Wafer paper' is prepared in a similar way to the above; but when intended to be kept for some time, the milk must be omitted.

  36. For use, the paper is wetted where the wafer is to be applied.

  37. In a word, they are among the negroes, what Wafer says, the white Indians are among the yellow Indians of Darien, and what the Chacrelas and the Bedas are among the brown Indians of the East.

  38. Footnote 26: Some Christian writers affirm, that he drew from his bosom the host or wafer on which the treaty had not been sworn.

  39. The cross within a circle, above the fishes, is emblematic of the consecrated wafer in the Lord's supper, as celebrated by the church of Rome.

  40. If a red "wafer" lying upon a sheet of white or grey paper is looked at steadily for about half a minute, and the gaze is then suddenly transferred to some other part of the paper, a greenish-blue ghost of the wafer will be seen.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wafer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adhesive; biscuit; bread; coat; coating; collop; covering; cracker; cut; deal; disk; elements; film; flake; flap; foil; fold; gruel; lap; lath; leaf; loaf; membrane; pane; panel; paper; patina; peel; pellicle; plait; plank; plate; plating; ply; plywood; rail; rake; rasher; scum; shadow; shaving; sheet; sinker; skeleton; skin; slab; slat; slice; soup; splinter; streak; table; tablet; vein; veneer; wafer