HEMP in a Sentence

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For HEMP, below is one of 5 sentences:
When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEMP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hemp
 n.  a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
 n.  any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs
Classic Sentence:
1  She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
2  He had invented a machine for the cleaning of the hemp, which, considering the education and circumstances of the inventor, displayed quite as much mechanical genius as Whitney's cotton-gin.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Then the foolish criminal is taken, imprisoned, interrogated, confronted, confounded, condemned, and cut off by hemp or steel; or if she be a woman of any consideration, they lock her up for life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
4  They were all flying from the beehives behind the hedge, and they disappeared over the hemp patch in the direction of the marsh.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 12
5  When the nettle is young, the leaf makes an excellent vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and flax.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
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