LID in a Sentence

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For LID, below is one of 108 sentences:
The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on.

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 Meanings and Examples of LID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lid
 n.  headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
 n.  either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
Classic Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1  They pried off the lid with their shovels, got out the body and dumped it rudely on the ground.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his shroud on.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII.
3  I see the coffin lid was the way it was before, but I dasn't go to look in under it, with folks around.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII.
4  But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII.
5  Tom he went to the soap-kettle and searched around, and fetched back the iron thing they lift the lid with; so he took it and prized out one of the staples.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV.
6  Then Clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cellar, and tapped the lid briskly as she went, so that the time might not appear long.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CLEVER ELSIE
7  'Yes, my child,' said the wife, and she gave her a beautiful apple out of the chest; the chest had a very heavy lid and a large iron lock.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE JUNIPER-TREE
8  Dantes inserted the sharp end of the pickaxe between the coffer and the lid, and pressing with all his force on the handle, burst open the fastenings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
9  He replaced the lid, as ignorant of what the cup contained as he was before he had looked at it, and then casting his eyes towards his host he saw him smile at his disappointment.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
10  Then he drew from his waistcoat-pocket the little emerald box, raised the golden lid, and took from it a pastille about the size of a pea, which he placed in her hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 101. Locusta.
11  She put the letters back in the lap secretary and closed the lid.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  He could be an ardent, almost a tender, lover for a brief while, and almost immediately a mocking devil who ripped the lid from her gunpowder temper, fired it and enjoyed the explosion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
13  The desk was closed, but on its slanting lid lay two letters which he took up.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
14  He raised the lid of the desk, and saw within it a cheque-book and a few packets of bills and letters, arranged with the orderly precision which characterized all her personal habits.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
15  Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin, one of these sharks almost took poor Queequeg's hand off, when he tried to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Look for something that can act as a shield, like a dustbin lid.
2  You can't hit off the lid that way.
3  I do not think this is the right lid for this box.
4  I lifted the lid of the box and peered in.
5  He carefully lifted the lid of the box.
6  He slowly opened the lid that hinged to the box.
7  I levered the lid off the box with a stick.
8  There is no pot so ugly that it can't find a lid.
9  Choose a dish with a tight-fitting lid.
10  The lid still stayed on when the pot had dropped onto the floor.
11  He flipped the lid open and looked inside the case.
12  The teapot has lost its proper lid but this one will do instead.
13  You have to twist the lid off, not pull it.
14  Please hammer down the lid first.
15  This is an article that takes the lid off the world of professional gambling.