lime

How To Use lime In A Sentence

• My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
• If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
• Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
• The air smells like moist potting soil, the skin of potatoes… the damp chalk of limestone.
• Lime hawk moth moth is named after the hawk because it capable of powerful, long- distance flight. Times, Sunday Times
• The other key aspect of the restoration involved repointing the exterior masonry, in the facades of limestone, sandstone, and granite.
• We asked the surgeon, are you talking millimeters, centimeters, inches?
• His songs had gone from sublime to bizarre, compounded by his friendship with oddball lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
• And there was some consolation for the connections of Limestone Lad when Solerina won the novice hurdle.
• A broad avenue of lime trees led up to a grand entrance with huge oak doors.