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Example sentences for "watermelons"

Lexicographically close words:
waterlogged; watermark; watermarked; watermarks; watermelon; watermen; watermill; watermillion; watermillions; waterpots
  1. Four cart-loads of watermelons and vegetables were sent to the ministers by the yamen as a sign of good feeling (?

  2. This was promised, and watermelons and peaches have already been sent to the Japanese in the Su Wang Fu and to the Americans on the wall.

  3. Grapes and figs, watermelons and pomegranates, peaches, pears, lemons and bananas.

  4. Huge watermelons are about eight or ten cents a piece.

  5. But they talked of watermelons until, when Peter started for home that night over a lonely road, they held a certain dominant position in his mind.

  6. The effete joke in regard to an American negro's fondness for watermelons was still an admirable pleasantry to them, and this was not the first time they had engaged in badinage over it.

  7. They did not talk of watermelons until their heads held nothing else, as the phrase goes.

  8. Wickliffe's theology it seemed that watermelons were almost the only luscious things of this carnal world not held to be potentially or openly sinful.

  9. And, after the preaching, under his auspices, there would be a mighty cutting of watermelons for those deemed to be qualified to participate therein.

  10. If but a little is added to the food, it does no perceptible harm, but when sprinkled on everything that is eaten, from watermelons to meat, it is without doubt harmful.

  11. You may classify rhubarb, watermelons and muskmelons as vegetables, if you wish.

  12. Keep the watermelons on ice for some hours before you send them to table.

  13. Watermelons were rare and costly in that day and locality, and these were worth three dollars apiece.

  14. They were coming down C Street one morning when they saw some fine watermelons on a fruit-stand at the International Hotel corner.

  15. Sometimes he give a slave family a small patch to plant watermelons in.

  16. Fer my first task I had 1/4 of an acre in taters, 'bacca and watermelons de first year.

  17. Had two big watermelons en was saving one for Miss Lanes.

  18. As watermelons need more room than can usually be spared in a garden, they are commonly grown as a field crop.

  19. The best manure for watermelons is a compost of stable manure and wood-mold from the forest.

  20. Under his leadership they stole watermelons from Mr. Dick Bell's patch, afterward eating their spoils in thickets of grapevines along the banks of Perkins' Creek.

  21. Now about them watermelons: Sence this gentleman has brung them watermelons up, I'm goin' to tell you-all the truth about that too.

  22. And he spoke of my havin' egged 'em on to steal watermelons frum Mister Bell's watermelon patch out here three miles frum town, on the Marshallville gravel road.

  23. While he was floating and thinking mournfully of the figs, one of the watermelons struck him softly on the cheek.

  24. As he waded out again over the sharp oyster-shells the sky had grown blue instead of gray, and a brightness sprang across the water, touching hundreds and hundreds of glistening green watermelons undulating with the falling tide.

  25. One of McNutt's numerous occupations was raising a "patch" of watermelons each year on the lot back of the house.

  26. Also Plymouth Rock Hens & Road Commissioner Agent for Radley's Lives of the Saints Insurance and Watermelons My Specialty Millville, Mount County, N.

  27. A friend of mine was saying to me only a day or two ago, 'It's time for the watermelons and the Englishmen.

  28. The Englishmen and the watermelons just now are about the same thing," Percy Beaumont observed, wiping his dripping forehead.

  29. Watermelons are like sunsets--no words can picture them.

  30. Father always pulled the watermelons himself and always did it very early in the morning when the dew was still on them.

  31. A jolly ride we had in spite of the many bumps in the road and the fact that at every bump the watermelons would roll against our backs.

  32. I would gladly have wheeled the watermelons or carried the hampers.

  33. The watermelons were--well, there are no words to describe those melons.

  34. And so we trudged on, Zebedee and Uncle Peter taking down the worm fences to let Cousin Park and the watermelons through, and then patiently building them up again.

  35. That's the kind of watermelons that grew there!

  36. I remember the watermelons the gardener Ivan used to get.

  37. Watermelons and muskmelons and other trifles.

  38. People who knew him said that the only man who ever tried to inspect Washington's flour was buried under a hill of choice watermelons at Mount Vernon.

  39. They thought the President's salary too much for him, and feared that he would buy watermelons with it.

  40. Especially at Mammy's house--Daddy's watermelons were famed throughout the county.

  41. The watermelons held out--we took two big ones home to Mother, also a lot of splendid Indian peaches, and a fore-quarter of lamb.

  42. Might I ask where and how you find such delicious watermelons in this neck of the woods?

  43. There were dozens of ears of corn, a sack of new potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, a dozen big watermelons and a bushel of early summer apples.

  44. You are a good fellow, Grant, and I advise you to join us; if you do, not a fellow shall ever say a word about watermelons or sleep-walking.

  45. Then you won't hear any thing but watermelons while you stay here.

  46. The course was laid out with big watermelons and time was kept for each hurdler.

  47. We had met in the morning wagon-loads of watermelons and muskmelons, on the way to Jonesboro, and Mr. Devault set abundance of these refreshing fruits before us as we lounged on the porch before dinner.


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