BATHE in a Sentence

Learn BATHE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

191 example sentences for BATHE, such as:

1. No sunshine but bath some shadow.
2. I indulged myself with a long hot bath.
3. I eased my stiff limbs into the hot bath.
4. He had a shave and a bath before leaving.
5. It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath.

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 Meanings and Examples of BATHE
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bathe
 v.  wash by immersion, as in a bath; subject to bath; lave; immerse or cover one's self
Classic Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1  But now that they had become her own people, to bathe and encourage and adorn, she had an acute and uncomfortable interest in them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  It bore her through; it made her arm steady and tireless to bathe them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  "Why should I go down to bathe at the very end of the season when I haven't been in the surf all summer," replied the woman, disagreeably.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
4  He helped her to light the lamp; then she went into her room to take off her hat and to bathe her face and hands.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
5  The doctor had said she must bathe him every night, and she, foolish woman, believed him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
6  Rarely was there any place provided in the cabin where one could bathe even the face and hands, but usually some provision was made for this outside the house, in the yard.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
7  We wanted to teach the students how to bathe; how to care for their teeth and clothing.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
8  The students have been taught to bathe as regularly as to take their meals.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
9  In the act of dipping forward as if I were going to bathe among the horses, I woke in a fright and took the question up again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
10  Lily began to bathe, and Darya Alexandrovna began to realize, if only in part, her expectations, if not of a peaceful, at least of a comfortable, life in the country.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
11  I should like to see Venice again,' she said, 'and to bathe from one of the shingle islands across the lagoon.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  And with that I scrambled to my feet and looked about me, wondering where I could bathe.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
13  'You should go oftener to bathe,' Nikolai Petrovitch told her.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  It was dusty and so hot that on passing near water one longed to bathe.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II
15  Father, you know very well that the general was not a man to drown himself in despair, and people do not bathe in the Seine in the month of January.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Father and Son.
Example Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
16  The dirt on the bottom of the bath didn't encourage total immersion.
17  Don't slosh too much water on the floor when you're having a bath.
18  I eased my stiff limbs into the hot bath.
19  It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath.
20  There's nothing better than a long soak in a hot bath.
21  I indulged myself with a long hot bath.
22  He loves to wallow in a hot bath after a game.
23  I used to take a bath twice a day last year, morning and night.
24  She had nearly got out of the bath and put on her clothes when the telephone rang.
25  He took off his clothes and got into the bath.
26  I'd just got in the bath when the phone rang.
27  No sunshine but bath some shadow.
28  He had a shave and a bath before leaving.
29  Be sure to steep the fabric in the dye bath for the full time prescribed.
30  During the summer, I like to take a tepid bath, not a hot one.