How To Use Tumbler In A Sentence

A couple of blokes tried to glass me in the face with a pint tumbler.
“No, there ain’t no Bowlong,” said the barmaid, taking up a glasscloth and a drying tumbler and beginning to polish the latter. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
The line of stemware and tumblers feature a unique magnesium-based crystal that the company says eliminates the trade-off between clarity and durability in this product category.
In front of each god was a miniature steel plate and a tumbler the size of a large thimble.
Fill a tumbler with more ice cubes and strain in the negroni. Times, Sunday Times

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The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet — brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Saturate lump sugar with bitters in a thick tumbler or mug.
She poured from both into her tumbler, inhaled on her cigar, and sat there silently watching us from her malevolent little eyes. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
Roll the head up, stitch it together and braize it in half a tumbler of Malmsey or Australian Muscat (Burgoyne's), half a cup of very good white stock, some bits of ham and bacon, and a clove of garlic with two cuts. The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes
Recycle beer or other decorative bottles into tumblers by soaking a piece of garden twine in kero and tying around the bottle at the point you want to separate.
Seated in a large arm-chair, a smoking tumbler of mulled port before him, sat my friend Mike, dressed in my full regimentals, even to the helmet, which, unfortunately however for the effect, he had put on back foremost; a short "dudeen" graced his lip, and the trumpet so frequently alluded to lay near him. Charles O'Malley — Volume 2
Don't stint on the pudding... where pudding means tumblers of fine whisky not ice cream or custard. Times, Sunday Times
Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints.
I might break a tumbler to be sure, but I should have the full enjoyment of it while it lasted. Girls and Women
I mean, I get mind-dementing hangovers when I party where Irish whiskey is being poured by the tumblerful and this morning was no exception. Mexican Immigrants in New York City
Decomposition in an untumbled tumbler slows down to a crawl. Organic Gardener's Composting
She was obviously enjoying the antics of the jugglers and tumblers illuminated by the flickering light.
He held a cut glass tumbler in his hand and gazed at her with dispassionate dark eyes that seemed to miss nothing. HEAVEN, TEXAS
This exchange was repeated several times till I poured neat gin into a tumbler and she glugged it happily.
One evening the club had met as usual, and Tom had mixed his first tumbler of potheen punch, after "the feast of shells" was over, when somebody happened to mention the name of Edmund Kean, with the remark that he had once played in a barn in that very town. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
The first models had the tumblers built into the case of the lock, which had a round fluted key.
Guests have been asked for eight sherry glasses, eight champagne flutes, eight whisky tumblers, eight brandy goblets and two decanters.
I knelt down and used the bradawl on the tumblers again. Persuader
I bought some cool, plain, glass tumblers from a thrift store and will start an etching design for them this weekend.
If you were to begin now, and to take two or three tumblersful as I do, by the time you are my age, you would have drunk fifty hogsheads of rum, and I don't know how many tons of water. The Three Midshipmen
By mixing wet and dry beads in a tumbler, and developing a theory for interacting beads, they found the precise conditions that lead to mixing or separation.
On the back terrace Wilshere sat alone at the small table smoking and drinking undiluted whisky from a tumbler. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Three young tumblers from Croydon School of Gymnastics have won places in the London primary schools team for next month's national club finals in Cardiff.
The technique traditionally has involved filing a key blank into a set of teeth that rest against each of the pins in a pin and tumbler lock.
And when I emerged from the treatment room, I was met with a tumbler of water and a cobalt-blue glass tray bearing a chilled towel and three perfect strawberries.
Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or Over the Teacups
At the Poulencs our orange juice came in cut glass tumblers, and there were sugared almonds and fondants on paper doilies. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
They wanted pale spirits chilled in the freezer and served neat in short frosted tumblers. Falling Man
Many of the tumblers and trapeze artists were fairly minimally - but decently - dressed.
Then the young officer hurried off with the tumbler to check the fingerprint files at headquarters. THE VIKING SYMBOL MYSTERY
Close to the tree was a shattered tumbler, which police believe Elizabeth used to try to defend herself.
Taking up a little tumbler, in shape like those from which French postilions used to drink la goutte, he inspected it narrowly, wiped out the interior with his forefinger, filled it to the brim, and offered it to his guest28 with a bow. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
The key Fran was holding at that moment fit right into the lock and the tumblers turned.
You may now see the cluster, and may not; but they will spread out in marching, and give a good chance to see her majesty, when a tumbler is the most convenient thing to set over her. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
I put the bent spike of the bradawl in like a key and felt for the tumblers. Persuader
Pin-tumbler locking mechanisms make padlocks harder to pick.
Aptly named Tumbler is an ideal tomato for a large basket or even a patio tub or window box.
The processes at the summit of the _coracoid_, which receive the extremities of the furcula, form a more perfect cavity in some tumblers than in the rock-pigeon: in pouters these processes are larger and differently shaped, and the exterior angle of the extremity of the coracoid, which is articulated to the sternum, is squarer. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
Moving slickly between tumblers and acrobats, the action takes in an absurdly daring high-wire act.
No loitering then, soon as they heard that call; and many a warrior fell with bloody crown, and not a few of us thou couldst have seen thrown to the earth like tumblers before the walls, after they had given up the ghost, bedewing the thirsty ground with streams of gore. The Phoenissae
We put sprigs of white hyacinth in a glass tumbler and placed it on a tray with candles.
Filling and swilling hour after hour, he seldom rises before he gets through ten or fifteen tumblersful, and, if he happens to be thirsty, will double it -- enough, one would think, to founder a horse. The Land of Thor
The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet -- brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
They also undertook glass painting decorating a wine glass or tumbler, which was provided according to their own taste.
I emptied the last of the sangaree into the two pint tumblers out of which we were drinking, and holding mine up, said, Burlesques
They drank from heavy tumblers, staring out the windows at the valley that opened before them.
Chop up the cores of five or six stalks of lemon grass and put them in a blender with a tumblerful of spirits, blend thoroughly.
He dug out his key and stuck it in the lock, feeling the tumblers give way.
A teaspoonful of the _Camphor tincture_ may be put into a tumbler of cold water, ice water if at hand, and the water agitated until it becomes clear, giving a teaspoonful of this camphorated _cold_ water as An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time
Touch wood ! She pauses to sip a frothy iced coffee from a plastic tumbler.
Shake with crushed ice a tumbler glass filled with ice. Stir with celery stick gently.
In 2002 she relocated to the U.S. with the intention of training as a power tumbler.
Outfit special-occasion barware - tumblers, carafes, goblets, or martini glasses - with perky polka dots, stripes, checks, or holiday-inspired motifs, such as holly leaves and berries.
She poured from both into her tumbler, inhaled on her cigar, and sat there silently watching us from her malevolent little eyes. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
The range includes tumblers specifically designed for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet and so on.
He was appearing with Tommy Trinder, Shani Wallis, a skiffle band, some tumblers called the Five Corsairs and an escape artiste called Zeno. MR STARLIGHT
Is there any chance it will "manifest itself" until the sandpapered fingers of a subpoena duces tecum line up the tumblers on Cheney's "man-sized" safe? McCain Adviser: McCain Likely To Confront Obama About Ayers At Debate
In the kitchen on the white enamel drainboard sat a topaz tumbler bearing a red lipstick stain on its rim.
It must have been the end of the school day for them as a flurry of wannabe clowns, tumblers and tightrope walkers came out of the bar as I was passing by.
Fill a tumbler with ice, and strain shaker into glass of ice.
Wine was sometimes drunk from glass tumblers.
As soon as the tumbler begins turning, a spiral pattern appears as grains of one color wrap around grains of the other color.
I stand three feet from the glassware and count the tumblers lined up on a towel.
Melstead sat on the edge of his armchair, the remainder of his whisky quivering like a ruffled puddle in the tumbler. THE LAST RAVEN
The wine glasses, tumblers, pipes and so on were articles which each painter handled regularly in the course of day-to-day life.
Some triturated powders can be prepared in a lapidary tumbler, using steel balls to do the grinding.
Sitting down, she took up the tumbler and the teaspoon and spooned up a bit of the mixture.
Have ready 3 clean inverted small tumblers with smooth, round bottoms; custard cups; or a teacup with a very small handle.
When the dining room bell rang, you grabbed your thali and your tumbler and took it along with you.
The tea flows even today, poured hot and sweet into stainless-steel tumblers as manna after a rigorous climb. and it afforded us time to ruminate about the incongruities of the temple.
Between it and the tumbler was a hyphen of wet blisters: droplets of spilled booze. Over the Edge
The girls had never known lock picking to be such a dangerously loud task before, as Loki's attempts rattled the tumblers of the lock so much, someone in a surrounding house could hear it from an open door or window.
I heard the tumblers in the lock click into position.
A Persian despises a wine-glass; a tumbler is his measure. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
‘Good afternoon highness,’ the maid briskly said as she unstopped one of the bottles and lifted the tumbler.’
Our night began, as all nights should, with a tumbler of tequila and a discounted beer.
Behind the tumblers march musicians, playing early trumpets and horns.
In the living room, an Eames lounge sits catty-corner to a bentwood rocker; on the dining table, jelly-jar tumblers are set next to Nicole's grandmother's sterling silverware. The Search
Only a specific shape will recognize the tumbler combination in a lock.
Poured-concrete base, steel walls, tumbler locks and industrial-strength handles on all the locker doors. PEARL COVE
The connections slipped into place like the tumblers in a well-oiled lock and the revelation they unlocked left me standing stunned.
Making my visit at an hour when a more favourable light entered the room, swarms of acari were found on the cards, about the glass tumbler, both within and without, and also on the platform of the apparatus. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
Like a traditional circus, there are jugglers, trapeze acts, tumblers and contortionists.
M'Carthy prudently hesitated either to arouse his loyalty or disturb the tranquility of his family, and after joining him in a tumbler of punch, or what O'Driscol termed his nightcap, he retired to bed, where, however, he could not for a considerable time prevent himself from ruminating, with a good deal of seriousness, upon the extraordinary interview he had had with the friendly stranger. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints.
Mobile WiFI Stumbler is "finer-grain" than the WiFI detecting and reporting displayed by the "chooser" applications on most WiFI-enabled devices, Biswas notes. InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Fals-Semblant is the pope who sells benefices, the histrion, the tumbler, the juggler, the adept of the vagrant race, who goes about telling tales and helping his listeners to forget the seriousness of life. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
We sipped admirably gentle, not-too-sweet limeade from big tumblers.
It seems extraordinary that this crumbling little eatery with its plastic tumblers and splintery benches should be so favoured by the rich and famous.
Put yogurt into a shallow glass or tumbler.
If you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out again.
Laundry Machine Operators operate washers, starchers, extractors, tumblers, sterilizers and dryers in a campus laundry; and perform other related duties as required.
Even the females, it would appear, have some of them of late years learned the habit of drinking grog from the English sailors; and Captain Dillon gives an account of a priestess, who visited him on board the "Besearch," and who, having among several other somewhat indecorous requests, demanded a tumbler of rum, quaffed off the whole at a draught as soon as it was set before her. John Rutherford, the White Chief
'Miss Johnson, with whom I dined at the White Hart Inn, Fetter Lane, was personally acquainted with Burns; who, breakfasting with her, drank a large tumbler of beer previous to taking either eatables or tea, saying that he had been up till three in the morning, and had drank too much wine. Letter 75
I pour some Plax antiplaque formula into a stainless-steel tumbler and swish it around my mouth for thirty seconds. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
I pour half a tumbler, raise the glass, sniff and taste.
We see this exemplified in England, where the common tumbler, which is valued only for its flight, does not differ much from its parent-form, the Eastern tumbler; whereas the short-faced tumbler has been prodigiously modified, from being valued, not for its flight, but for other qualities. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
Them letters he wrote was certainly the squashiest -- why, every one of them seemed to woggle like a tumbler of jelly -- sweet and sloppy, as you might say! Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
He held a cut glass tumbler in his hand and gazed at her with dispassionate dark eyes that seemed to miss nothing. HEAVEN, TEXAS
To get my ice I have to make a cube shape with my hands and point to the tumbler.
He pauses to pour ice water into a clear glass tumbler, and drinks from it heartily.
While in the circus, Masha married the power tumbler Alexander Kourbatov.
You listen to the tumblers falling in a lock, with a sound like faraway applause.
The top women tumbler was Chrystel Robert who did a full-twisting double layout through to a piked full-in.
By then the indigenously produced drink had made its way into tumblers and cups across the country, especially South India.
She had four tumbler glasses each about half full.
Finally, the tumblers of the resistant lock had come round in the magical right combination.
At the Poulencs our orange juice came in cut glass tumblers, and there were sugared almonds and fondants on paper doilies. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
A clunk is his heavy pottery tumbler being set on the table. Through Wolfs Eyes
Stir one tumblerful of good brandy and a wineglassful of Sherry wine.
He held a cut glass tumbler in his hand and gazed at her with dispassionate dark eyes that seemed to miss nothing. HEAVEN, TEXAS
The orbiter is now looking for a nice tumbler and some Chivas. posted by Eric 7: 47 AM | IsThatLegal?
Other members of the cast of La Nouba include funambulists, dancers, tumblers, trapeze performers, equilibrists, clowns, actors, acrogymnasts, cyclists, musicians, vocalists and circus artists.
Hold a magic holiday card in your right hand and place a nonbreakable tumbler on the top edge of the card. Swell Holiday
They replaced heavy tumblers with stemware, which is easier for Jolene to pick up. Two families in two nations help child burn victim thrive
He pauses to pour ice water into a clear glass tumbler, and drinks from it heartily.
I took two tumblerfuls of cold water.
He jiggles the key in the lock on the front door, trying to persuade the tumblers to shift, which they finally do, reluctantly.
Don't burn your fingers on a tumbler.
About nice drinks, anyhow, my recollection of the "cobblers" (with strawberries and snow on top of the large tumblers,) and also the exquisite wines, and the perfect and mild French brandy, help the regretful reminiscence of my New Orleans experiences of those days. November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
Philip held the tumbler until his brother drank his fill.
To toss or whirl in a drum , tumbler, or tumbling box.
Them letters he wrote was certainly the squashiest -- why, every one of them seemed to woggle like a tumbler of jelly -- sweet and sloppy, as you might say! Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
As the backstories of the major characters are filled in, little tumblers fall into place.
Neat, man, neat," he warned Bertie, who gulped down a tumbler two-thirds full of the raw spirits, and coughed and choked from the angry bite of it till the tears ran down his cheeks. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
I found the glass on the draining board, said Mrs. Ali, presenting him with the thick tumbler in which he soaked his partial bridgework at night. Excerpt: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinseled dancers and old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
Sure, David Rockefeller has collected a refrigerator-size tumbler of what were once called Rolodex cards, but only as a meticulous record of thousands of intimate interactions with people for whom he has cared, and who have cared about him. Forbes.com: News
A roly-poly toy, tilting doll, tumbler or wobbly man is a toy that rights itself when pushed over.
When the cloth was removed, and we had each made a tumbler of negus, of that liquor which hosts call Sherry, and guests call Lisbon, I perceived that the stranger seemed pensive, silent, and somewhat embarrassed, as if he had something to communicate which he knew not well how to introduce. The Monastery
These were first moulded in the shape of great tumblers with an excessively ugly pattern printed on the sides, then softened in a glory-hole, and brought to a workman, who, by means of plyers and battledoor, elongated and shaped the neck, leaving a queer, ragged lip at the top. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
But there are many _fancy_ breeds -- such as the fan-tail, the powter, the tumbler, the ruffler, and perhaps another variety or two -- all pretty birds, and each distinct in their appearance, and in some of their domestic habits. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings
Served as an amuse-bouche in a tumbler, they spike the appetite. Chilled Summer Soups
It has lever tumblers that require a key with a bit, or projecting part, of proper depth and position.
They have removed my number one awesome images provider from the top stumbler list for no reason at all. Archive 2009-01-01
The specimens were processed using a JR5A spinner magnetometer and demagnetized using a Molspin tumbler demagnetizer.
Pieces fall comfortingly into place like tumblers in a well-oiled lock.
If a glass tumbler is pressed firmly against a septicaemic rash, the rash will not fade.
I have a really cute new set of stripy tableware: dinner plates, dessert plates, bowls, mugs, tumblers and cutlery.
He had a dauby tumbler of water beside him, and two or three _Godey's Lady's Books_ awaiting his eager brush. The Awakening of Helena Richie
She is a very strong tumbler and vaulter, but only 38 kilos.
It's got a surgical steel, triple-tumbler combination lock machined right into the kneecap, just set right into the sucker.
The last conversation I had with alpinist Alex Lowe, in August 1999 in Salt Lake City over a tumbler of single-malt, was about how many chin-ups a climber needed to do to stay fit for the mountains.
To my immense relief I heard the tumblers inside the lock falling away.
Now if your tumbler was a hundred or a thousand times as large, the air would prevent the water from coming in, just as it does in this instance. The Diving Bell Or, Pearls to be Sought for
Aptly named Tumbler is an ideal tomato for a large basket or even a patio tub or window box.
Looking out, tumblers in hand, we watched as the waves slid over the causeway, smoothing away our bootprints and the already fading tracks of the funeral cars.
Guests have been asked for eight sherry glasses, eight champagne flutes, eight whisky tumblers, eight brandy goblets and two decanters.
The No.107 Cable Lock has a braided steel cable with 1/8-inch wide laminated steel 4-pin tumbler lock.
In the living room, an Eames lounge sits catty-corner to a bentwood rocker; on the dining table, jelly-jar tumblers are set next to Nicole's grandmother's sterling silverware. The Search
A broached brambleberry pie, a glass of wine and frothed tumbler of ale have been left in a disarray of pewter dishes and scattered filberts: untidy by Dutch standards, apart from the sharply ironed tablecloth.
I could hear the sound of ice being scooped and dropped into tumblers, the sound of adults walking past with the liquid and frozen water making "tinkling" noises around me. Adoro te Devote
But Mr. Dick was pouring out three large tumblersful of the stuff, and he held one out to me. Where there's a Will
Aptly named Tumbler is an ideal tomato for a large basket or even a patio tub or window box.
You receive a tumbler with 2 cubes in it full of well gin, and a can of tonic.
Students had to provide their own steel thalis (big round plates with a rim) and steel tumblers.
She slid into paroxysms of laughter that she tried quelling with a tumblerful of Southern Comfort.
The typical daily food ration was, according to one civilian, ‘five slices bread, half a small cutlet, half a tumbler of milk, two thimblefuls of fat, a few potatoes and an eggcup of sugar’.
I like to serve this dessert in individual glasses - wine glasses or tumblers are equally good.
She writes of being a spectator in an exotic world of jugglers, tumblers, snake charmers, fire-eaters, and nautch girls.
She is a very strong tumbler on floor.
Another tells of the time when she saw a large and promising box under the tree, only to find it was an incomplete set of BhS glass tumblers.
Earl looked down at the smoky glass tumbler braced in the palm of his hand and swigged down the last sip of whiskey.
For my first course, I would be solemnly presented with a glass tumbler of tomato juice, sitting on a paper doily, in the middle of a china plate.
I poured a tumbler and forced myself to sip it, hand shaking like a derro, fighting back the gag reflex with the power of my mind.
He had been describing a particular kind of collapsible tumbler, which you put in your pocket and carried with you for use on a railway journey. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
At the end of the fourth week, two other tumblers, white youths, being secured, the complete, builded turn was performed for the benefit of a slender, French-looking gentleman, with waxed moustaches. CHAPTER XXVI
It's not our fight, sweetheart," she called gaily over her shoulder, taking a whisky tumbler from a cupboard and unscrewing the bottle to top up her own and pour him a generous slug. Fox Evil
He spun the knob expertly, until the last tumbler clicked smoothly into place and the heavy door swung outward, revealing the dark interior of the steel box.
But tumblers take the place of stemware and requests for ice buckets are cheerfully denied.
Mr. Harding carefully set down his glass tumbler without shifting his gaze from his son.
Did I mention the baby tumbler of minted mango frappé that came alongside?
Drink choices include a house red and white wine (served in an inelegant tumbler), teas, coffees and juices.
Clearly, we all have something to learn from these clowns and tumblers.
'Miss Johnson, with whom I dined at the White Hart Inn, Fetter Lane, was personally acquainted with Burns; who, breakfasting with her, drank a large tumbler of beer previous to taking either eatables or tea, saying that he had been up till three in the morning, and had drank too much wine. Letter 75
Then I hear the tumblers click as Hofmann locks the front door behind us.
The moth was very still now, exploring the interstices between tumbler and table with heavy, pectinated antennæ. Barbarians

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