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Example sentences for "wine"

Lexicographically close words:
windshield; windstorms; windswept; windward; windy; winecup; wineglass; wineglasses; wineglassful; winepress
  1. Matier fetched a bottle of wine and set it with the light on the table which stood near the window.

  2. Your worship, my lord general, there's only the wine cellar; but it's very nigh on empty now.

  3. The maid entered with the wine and food which Donald had ordered.

  4. The ladies," said Lord Dunseveric, "will be pleased if you will drink a glass of wine with them.

  5. This Captain Twinely must drink a glass of wine with us.

  6. Jests, curses, snatches of song, and calls for wine mingled with the groans which his extreme pain wrung from the wounded man and the solemn, quiet words about strength and courage which Lord Dunseveric spoke.

  7. He had the best food he could get on the table, and the best wine from the cellar was ready for his guests.

  8. There's plenty wine and cold meat for half a score.

  9. One by one they sat down and laid their glasses--the wine untasted--on the table before them.

  10. The wine and fruit were placed on the table and the servants withdrew.

  11. And, Neal, do you take the key of the cellar and get us a bottle of wine and the whisky that old Maconchy brought in from Rathlin last summer.

  12. But the man whom he challenged was one of the few for whom the wine bottle had no attractions.

  13. Get a couple of bottles of wine and some cold meat if you can.

  14. Why, if you owed some wine to any man, and he bade you pour it into a net or a sieve, would you say that you had returned it?

  15. I see murrhine cups, for luxury would be too cheap if men did not drink to one another out of hollow gems the wine to be afterwards thrown up again.

  16. By degrees, as the wine circulated, the party grew gay and sociable.

  17. The viands were exquisite; the wine came from the cellars of deceased archbishops and ambassadors.

  18. To the baffled and hopeless devotee of Wisdom he says, "Go, then, eat thy bread with gladness, and drink thy wine with a merry heart.

  19. For I shall learn from flower and leaf That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

  20. In ecstasy the earth Drank the silver sunlight; In ecstasy the skaters Drank the wine of speed; In ecstasy we laughed Drinking the wine of love.

  21. The heat was full of savors, and the bright Laughter of women lured the wine to flow.

  22. They gave us a tremendous dinner, with a bewildering profusion of courses and some luscious kinds of fruit, amongst which the ceil-de-boeuf was particularly soothing; and delicious Algerian wine flowed freely round the festive board.

  23. The soldiers heartily drank to King George in wine supplied by Mr. Smith, and declared they would oppose the Pretender to the last drop of their blood.

  24. The cut-purse, anxious to curry favour, offers to stand both wine and a breakfast, but the coney-catcher will not tarry.

  25. After two or three pottles of wine are disposed of one of the rogues says to their entertainer, "I pray you heark in your ear.

  26. There these commodities had been "vended," and the same merchants laid out their money in wine and fruits to freight the vessel home again.

  27. One afternoon, when Forster and another were drinking French wine with Mr. Pitt, Mr. Forster sent his servant to fetch a bottle of wine from his own stock to "make up the treat.

  28. At the gallows he asked for a glass of wine and a pinch of snuff, which "he took with apparent unconcern, wishing health to those who stood near him.

  29. This Picard was one of the Guild of Merchant Vintners of Gascony, a Bordeaux wine merchant, in fact, and a Gascon by birth, although a naturalized subject of the English king.

  30. If you will bestow upon them, every dinner and supper, a quart of wine and some music, you shall be their white son, and have all the favour they can show you.

  31. William Avecroft, having unsound wine, the sheriffs were ordered to pour all the wine in the street and wholly make away with it, according to the custom of the city.

  32. Prices ruled as follows in this underground tavern: wine was sold at 2s.

  33. He continued with them for some hours, and whether heated with wine or otherwise, beat one of the turnkeys as he brought in a rebel from trial.

  34. His songs are of the rollicking wine of life with its excitements, its depressions, its sentiments of hatred, beauty, joy.

  35. Perhaps, although not admitted, with the satisfaction of his desires women have lost their beauty, wine and food their taste, and gold has proved tarnished metal.

  36. Let the wine flow around the old Bacchanal's throne, Like their blood which has flowed, and which yet has to flow.

  37. Half of life is the candle; bread and wine are the other half.

  38. Though at ordinary times most sober, the Prince now added cup to cup, and like a Muscovite he grew more bitter as the wine mounted to his head.

  39. And with a wholly different air of interest, the Pope poured himself a glass of the rich wine and leaned back, contemplating the young man now with a sort of paternal kindliness.

  40. Wine may be dear, but this ring will pay the sweets of many a night!

  41. But for heads like his the light wine of our country is dangerously strong.

  42. Even then his throat refused its office till Werner von Orseln handed him a great cup of wine from which he drank deeply.

  43. Let the man be dressed in the habit of a countryman, and carry with him some wine and provend.

  44. This tickling of steel goes to my head like wine and I am bound to forget.

  45. His eyes had lost their furtive meanness and blazed with a kind of reckless fury quite foreign to his nature, for anger affected him as wine might another man.

  46. WINE SAUCE Put four tablespoons butter in a sauce-pan, brown richly; add five tablespoons flour and continue browning, stirring constantly.

  47. Dispose a layer of orange pulp in bottom of shallow, glass, serving-dish, sprinkle with wine and lemon juice and sugar, strew with cocoanut and a layer of thinly sliced banana.

  48. To avoid having sauce curdle, milk and wine must be added drop by drop.

  49. Whip cream until solid, season with one-half teaspoon each salt and paprika; add two tablespoons lemon juice and one and one-half tablespoons Sherry wine slowly, while beating constantly.

  50. Heat to boiling point and add one-third cup Madeira Wine and one-third cup currant jelly previously whipped.

  51. Add Sherry wine and a sprinkle of nutmeg.

  52. And stoups of wine and huge venison pasties were despatched to the Temple for the stay and comfort of the mock-court, who made merry all day long.

  53. You should see the dining-hall in the château, full of decanters that sparkle with wine of every color.

  54. Yes, reverend Father, I've put the wine in the flasks.

  55. Really, Sir, my wine is the worst you ever drank in your life, and you'll find my cheer but very indifferent.

  56. Good wine you must keep above all things, without good wine and good cheer I would not give a fig for the country.

  57. My wine is very good, gentlemen, but to be very plain with ye, it is dear.

  58. During the whole proceeding from St. Margaret's-hill, the Conduits at Stocks-market and other parts of the City are to run with wine as usual.

  59. I did the same; and if I had turned myself upside down before drinking, the wine could not have gone more direct to my head.

  60. He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else in hand.

  61. He nodded when I said the subject was painful to me, clapped me on the back, put round the wine again, and went on with his dinner.

  62. You mustn't go a overdoing on it, but you must have your supper and your wine and water, and you must be put betwixt the sheets.

  63. At about this time, I began to observe that he was getting flushed in the face; as to myself, I felt all face, steeped in wine and smarting.

  64. And he was so very free of the wine that he even called for the other bottle, and handed that about with the same liberality, when the first was gone.

  65. It would turn a man's blood to white wine winegar to hear him tell of it, sir," said the landlord.

  66. If I had taken ten times as many glasses of wine as I had, I should have known that he never had stood in that relation towards me, and should in my heart of hearts have repudiated the idea.

  67. And we all had cake and wine on gold plates.

  68. But he raised his hand in refusal of the glass of wine which she had ready for him on the table, and offered before he could speak.

  69. Except the biscuit and the glass of wine at the hospital, he had taken nothing since his light luncheon.

  70. The wine was a white Riesling from California.

  71. Give us the subtler, the heavenlier though fleeting beauty, which passes through and through, and dwells not in the verse; even pure water, which but reflects those tints which wine wears in its grain.

  72. Men may be pure as alabaster and Parian marble, elegant as a Tuscan villa, sublime as Niagara, and yet if there is no milk mingled with the wine at their entertainments, better is the hospitality of Goths and Vandals.

  73. Wine has been celebrated for the production of eloquence.

  74. Let musick sound the voice of joy, Or mirth repeat the jocund tale; Let love his wanton wiles employ, And o'er the season wine prevail.

  75. They placed him in the seat of honour, and set wine and conserves before him.

  76. Of wine and punch they are very liberal, for they get them cheap; but as there is no custom-house on the island, they can hardly be considered as smugglers.

  77. The hermit set flesh and wine before them, though he fed only upon fruits and water.

  78. The wine circulates vigorously; and the tea, chocolate, and coffee, however they are got, are always at hand.

  79. What though her fountains flow with purple wine From the abundant soil, they drink them not!

  80. He was not cannibal enough to dine, but he did eat a slice of beef, and drink a tumbler of wine and water.

  81. The sultry fervour of the air, stifling to men of another race, was like wine to him, recalling the torrid country of his birth, and he tossed the spadefuls gleefully, perspiring and singing as he worked.

  82. As the allusion would doubtless be clear to the Greek audience, I have added a mention of wine which is not in the Greek.

  83. So I garlanded my brow And poured the gods drink-offering, and but now Filled thy death-stricken house with wine and song.

  84. Drank, and sang songs, and revelled, my head hot With wine and flowers!

  85. Historically this probably means that the worship dates from a time before wine was used in Greece.

  86. Solomon warned against "looking upon the wine when it was red, and turneth itself in the cup"--fermentation.

  87. A parson was among them; he danced not, neither did he look upon the wine that was red.

  88. When the sausage had been basted and he had sopped up and eaten the drippings with a piece of bread, he took a coin out of his purse and told me to go get him some wine from the tavern.

  89. Then the wine would begin to trickle from the spout into my mouth, and I got into a position so that I wouldn't miss a blasted drop.

  90. He used wine to wash the places where the pieces of the jug had cut me, and he smiled and said, "How about that, Lazaro?

  91. Go down to the square and buy bread and wine and meat.

  92. They aren't conceited or presumptuous; they have no hesitation or dislike for going into any wine cellar, with their hats off if the wine deserves it.

  93. Then the blind man gave me the money for the wine and took hold of the spit, turning it over the fire, trying to cook the very thing that hadn't been cooked before because it was so bad.

  94. Then the dirty blind man made up jokes about it, saying things like: "The truth of the matter is I use more wine washing this boy in one year than I drink in two.

  95. That year people had harvested so many grapes for wine that at nearly every door I went to they asked if I wanted anything to drink, because they didn't have any bread to give me.

  96. When I had my fill of eating, I went over to a cask full of good wine and transferred as much as I could hold into my stomach.

  97. He went to the wine cellar and found his oil spilled all over and the law officers wallowing in it.

  98. I remembered the feasts I had in Toledo, how well I ate with my German friends, and that good wine I used to announce in the streets.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    wine and; wine glass; wine grapes; wine merchant; wine sauce; wine shop; wine vinegar