How To Use Slake In A Sentence
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His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.
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The pigments, applied with water as a vehicle, are bound by the carbonation of the slaked lime in the fresh plaster.
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But this continuall cruell ciuill warre, the which my selfe against my selfe doe make: whilest my weak powres of passions warreid arre. no skill can stint nor reason can aslake.
Amoretti and Epithalamion
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The first part, using slaked lime, should take about 20-30 minutes, while the second part should not add more than 15 minutes of practical work.
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‘In the evening they came to a water hole,’ one caption read, ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’
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There are no gloves, no pads, no iced tea to slake their thirst, no lemonade for breaks, and no hats to protect them from the sun.
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I don't think Dick will ever manage to slake his lust for power.
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New album on order; I like ‘Waiting for the Siren's Call,’ but not with unslakeable enthusiasm.
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He had preferred to go without rather than to slake his thirst at a tainted water hole.
ONLY YOU
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Hydrated slaked lime is slaked quicklime that has reacted with water to form calcium hydroxide.
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In the desert there will remain some stones, a whole gigantic ruin slowly split and slaked by waters and wind, mastic trees, frost.
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A ‘brandy’ bar is being set up to slake their thirst.
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I slaked my thirst at the brook; and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.
Chapter 11
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Tourists who flock to the city pay guides handsome sums to walk in places where he never trod, and drink in pubs where he only slaked his thirst on paper.
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That the Saudis are even considering such a project shows how difficult and costly it is becoming to slake the world's thirst for oil.
Facing Up to End of 'Easy Oil'
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Studies at the Getty Conservation Institute on high-reactivity quicklime have identified the parameters for developing high-quality slaked lime putty to be used in the comparative evaluations.
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All these sacrificial offerings might slake a predator's desires.
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Furies > (In later accounts, Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto, three goddesses who guard the gates of hell; in earlier accounts, they are avenging deities, of indeterminate number, sent from hell to punish wrongdoers) aslake > assuage; cool
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Last week's festival slaked the thirst of over 1,000 visitors, real ale veterans and virgins alike descending on Troon for three days of eager boozing.
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To keep it simple, serve the juice just like that, or thicken it with a little slaked cornflour.
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Two flavours of cold drink powder, orange and lime, would have helped slake your thirst through the day.
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What entertaining mincemeat you would make of our vacuous celebrity culture, which lauds talentless nonentities on the basis of youth, looks, greed or the unslakeable thirst for publicity!
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Too bad it would do no more than slake his thirst.
Healing the Highlander
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With water it is slaked; and then slowly absorbs or fixes air or gas again to turn back into the starting substance.
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Slaked lime is an important flux in the reduction of iron in blast furnaces.
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If I can find them, perhaps they'll slake my thirst for Barker's short fiction.
Rabid Reads: "Books of Blood: Volumes 1-3" by Clive Barker
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The bank has argued that bringing in the private sector would slake the thirst of millions of the world's poor.
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His slack, slaked face seemed about to drop off with sheer gravity of dissipation.
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I thought of him prowling the streets at night, lonely, perhaps even a little drunk, unable to slake his unknown cravings.
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Thin slices of the nut, either natural or processed, may be mixed with a variety of substances including slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and spices such as cardamom, coconut, and saffron.
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In a nearby lake a horse slakes its innocuous thirst as vehemently as the peasants.
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We have been schooled to admire single-mindedness, the obsessive pursuit of a single goal by a single means: Sir Steve Redgrave, whose unslakeable thirst, whose rigidity of mind, took him to five successive Olympic gold medals in rowing.
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He had preferred to go without rather than to slake his thirst at a tainted water hole.
ONLY YOU
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How many thousands have become murderers and robbers, bigots and domestic tyrants, dissolute and abandoned adventurers, from the use of fermented liquors; who, had they slaked their thirst only with pure water, would have lived but to diffuse the happiness of their own unperverted feelings!
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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‘In the evening they came to a water hole,’ one caption read, ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’
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So the Wazir bade unbind him and he rose and taking virgin glass,554 brayed it and mixed it with unslaked lime and a menstruum of onion-juice.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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On the one hand, we depend on energy corporations to drive the economy, and to slake America's quenchless thirst for cheap, reliable fuel.
Elizabeth Bisbee Silber: Obama, the Oil Spill and the American Psyche
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His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.
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Until then it was just a block-rockin’ slab of hot and heavy pop that slaked my thirst for anthemic choruses, and towering walls of guitar.
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Water is mixed - or 'slaked' - with quicklime, producing slaked lime (calcium hydroxide), whereby most of the heat which was used is again released.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
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You begin changing what you can about yourself to slake the thirst of a grasping world, and to settle the demons of insecurity leaping at your psyche.
The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson
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Barack Obama, our next likely president -- disregarding morbid Doris Lessing-esque poo-pooers, or a jittery electorate overcome with a necrophilic hunger only a bespotted failed war "hero" can slake -- is full of it.
David Matthews: Obama is full of it. Hope, I mean.
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His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.
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With care he crouched and drank, filling a mouth that seemed always parched, striving to slake a thirst he could no longer quench.
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Weary but compliant men and women slaked their thirst by taking slugs of water from plastic bottles.
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Some do and "fan fiction" is an excellent way for them to slake their thirst for content without destroying the mystery for everyone else.
JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse | David Mitchell
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Art is there to slake our continuing appetite for mystery.
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Before I pressed play, I wanted more sound, layer upon layer to slake my thirst for novelty.
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It is a local drink and definitely slakes the thirst.
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After our long game of tennis, we slaked our thirst with a beer.
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Dams were one solution, both to slake the thirst of livestock and to feed patches of green lucerne for ostriches.
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Hydrated slaked lime is slaked quicklime that has reacted with water to form calcium hydroxide.
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This land growing mainly tussock is old goldmining country and heaps of tailings are evidence of the earlier presence of the miners who must have rejoiced to slake their thirst at the Cardrona Hotel built in 1870.
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A technique that dates back 5,000 years or more, buon fresco - or true fresco - involves the application of five layers of plaster made from a mixture of slaked lime and sand.
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If he went back to the house now he could slake his thirst and fill the growing hole in his belly.
SACRAMENT
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Men flocked to the shypoo shops and shanties to slake their thirst.
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There would always be the late, late news if her thirst for current events was yet unslaked.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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After our long game of tennis, we slaked our thirst with a beer.
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“Hydrated lime” (also called slaked lime) is produced by mixing the oxide forms with water.
Lime
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But when people get tired by the roadside, there is no one to offer buttermilk to slake their thirst.
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They can clear away the fire in the body and slake the thirst.
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The Guardian's weekly supplement, which bears the portentous title Society, is the font of public-sector employment, the spring whereat the civic-minded slake their thirst for righteous subsidy.
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Nothing too impressive, but it will surely slake the craving for some first generation Detroit-inspired techno.
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When quicklime is soaked in water, it is changed to calcium hydroxide or slaked lime.
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As with religion, I suppose that something is good for us if it makes us feel good - if it fills our emptiness, slakes our thirst.
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‘Our blood lust was slaked by the destruction of Ajin and Nagin,’ Quint said.
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Seasonal workers are run ragged at this time of year, trying to slake the desires of Christmas-crazed consumers like me.
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As in Four Nudes, women welter together in the heat and the unslaked thirst of their sterile frenzy.
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Once chlorine gas is leaked. can be treated with water and sufficient slaked lime.
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air-slake lime
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Gharib and the Islamised Jinn fell upon them and gloriously done for Gharib! indeed that day he pleased the Lord who answereth prayer and slaked his vengeance with the talisman-sword!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The ‘Bit of Red’ has a very special place for those who slake their thirst with a ‘bit of black’ in Harloes Bar.
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Eager to slake their thirst for adventure, the brothers competed against a hundred others in the Enduro Africa off-road motorcycle rally, tearing across more than a thousand miles of rugged African terrain on their Honda CRF 230 cc bikes.
William and Kate
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It was the grape of choice to slake the thirst of forty-niners.
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· The reaction of cement and water (known as hydration) liberates calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) which reacts with the clay particles to form a kind of pozzolanic binder.
Chapter 4
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We'd slake our thirst with an ice cold Coke - and in that moment, that Coke was our whole world… and that world was perfect.
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It is only what we save when we have in abundance, which will slake our thirst when there is a shortage.
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Wiping out humanity is hard work, so she naturally paused to slake her thirst.
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Colors are fresh and pure and the calcium hydroxide slaked lime into which the fresco is painted lends a reflective brightness unmatched by other painting mediums.
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In the desert there will remain some stones, a whole gigantic ruin slowly split and slaked by waters and wind, mastic trees, frost.
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Reacting the calcium oxide with water (H2O) yields calcium hydroxide (Ca (OH) 2) which Rolly calls "Builder's Lime" and is more descriptively referred to as either "slaked" lime (think of slaking your thirst) or hydrated lime.
Mexican Cookbooks
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That ingredient is slaked lime, limestone that has been calcined, or heated to a high temperature, and then exposed to water.
The Secret of the Strength of the Great Wall of China Lies in Sticky Rice Mortar | Impact Lab
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_Hydrated lime_, often called slaked lime, is a combination of stone-lime and water.
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
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They all took deep draughts of water to slake their thirst, unheeding the fact that it might not be suitable for drinking.
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Maybe that's what this is all down to; projecting onto S the unslakeable lusts I feel for Sigmund.
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Every goblet downed only drives his unslakeable thirst.
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Giving it a quick wipe with a towel, he dabs some ‘chunnam’ (slaked lime) on the leaf.
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After our long game of tennis, we slaked our thirst with a beer.
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The amber liquid is still flowing freely in the niteries, although you may have to box a little cleverer to slake your thirst half an hour later.
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Write because you must get your revenge or your thirst slaked, or write because your heart is full enough to overflow.
2010 May «
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Seven minutes slaked their appetites, but three minutes bred frustration.
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Hampden stadium is the only venue on the European American football circuit where fans cannot slake their thirsts with alcohol.
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The answer lies with the seven reservoirs that have turned this area into a mini ‘lakeland’ to slake the thirst of Leeds and Bradford.
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While he appears to have slaked his own thirst for now, Carter still believes that more deals need to be done in the asset management industry.
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Hoping to slake a thirst around 4 p.m., the audience member had been disappointed to learn that such obvious choices as PS 7's, Rasika and Zola don't serve drinks until closer to the dinner hour.
Ask Tom: Saturday afternoon cocktails
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I will not waste those twelve years trying to slake your father's thirst for glory.
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Canteens and goatskins had been half-drained before this was discovered by unfortunate soldiers seeking to slake their thirst.
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If he went back to the house now he could slake his thirst and fill the growing hole in his belly.
SACRAMENT
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Back at street level, I slaked my thirst at the Heartland Brewery bar on 5th Avenue, next to the Empire State.
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You pour water over the quicklime, producing a vast amount of heat, noxious gases, etc, and when it's all stopped fermenting, slaked lime. Add some more water, and that's limewash.
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The main job of the pool is to slake birds' thirst, not only on hot summer days but also in winter when natural sources of water may freeze solid.
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That ingredient is slaked lime, limestone that has been calcined, or heated to a high temperature, and then exposed to water.
The Secret of the Strength of the Great Wall of China Lies in Sticky Rice Mortar | Impact Lab
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Hydrated lime is actually slaked lime that has been dried and repulverized by the manufacturing company and is ready for use.
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Perhaps there is an opposite explanation for the unslakeable appetite for the spectacle of sport.
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In a dry season for mentors, will a flood of soft-cover leadership slake an anxious thirst?
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Drawn & Quarterly will slake my curiosity with Black Blizzard, the tale of two convicts, cuffed together and on the run.
Previews review February 2010
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She pressed the shiny metal bar, drinking deeply until her thirst was slaked.
Choker
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Dams were one solution, both to slake the thirst of livestock and to feed patches of green lucerne for ostriches.
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Other common names by which the compound is known include burnt lime, unslaked lime, fluxing lime, and calx.
