BEAD in a Sentence

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67 example sentences for BEAD, such as:

1. She accidentally swallowed a glass bead.
2. The Victorian mantle with the bead fringe.
3. He threw back his bead and laughed rudely.
4. Great beads of perspiration trickled down his forehead.
5. She was wearing a string of green beads round her neck.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEAD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bead
 n.  small piece of material, such as glass, plastic, or wood, that is pierced for stringing
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  He threw back his bead and laughed rudely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  She wore her expensive green frock, with its passementeried bosom, bead tassels, and gaps between the buttons down the back, as though she had bought it second-hand and was afraid of meeting the former owner.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Schminke's bead necklace and Whittier's error in putting on the striped pants, day like this.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  She had a first lesson in shooting, in keeping her eyes open, not wincing, understanding that the bead at the end of the barrel really had something to do with pointing the gun.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  He seemed to have abandoned himself to a reverie, and to be seeing pleasing visions in the amber bead.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
6  It's nothing but limes now, for everyone is sucking them in their desks in schooltime, and trading them off for pencils, bead rings, paper dolls, or something else, at recess.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
7  I made it like those Beth invented, a big butterfly with a fat body, and black and yellow wings, worsted feelers, and bead eyes.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
8  The Victorian mantle with the bead fringe.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
9  "Of course, of course," she murmured, deprecating his severity, and the coins in her bead bag jingled.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  They started riding towards the store; then up gets one of the boys, draws a steady bead over the wood-rank, and drops one of them out of his saddle.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
11  Ellen had stepped to the mantel to take her rosary beads from the small inlaid casket in which they always reposed when Mammy spoke up with firmness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Ellen finished and Gerald, who could never find his beads at prayer time, began furtively counting his decade on his fingers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Hastily she began her decade, telling off the beads automatically but with a depth of emotion in her voice that caused Mammy to open her eyes and shoot a searching glance at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  She paused in the hall to speak to friends and to greet India who was emerging from the back of the house, her hair untidy and tiny beads of perspiration on her forehead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  When she was not doing Scarlett's bidding, her rosary beads were always in her hands and her lips moving in prayers for her mother and for Brent Tarleton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  They started riding towards the store; then up gets one of the boys, draws a steady bead over the wood-rank.
2  She accidentally swallowed a glass bead.
3  Great beads of perspiration trickled down his forehead.
4  She was wearing a string of green beads round her neck.
5  She wore a string of green glass beads around her neck.
6  Getting on my knees on the seat of my desk and leaning on the back with the rosary beads was often too much for a rambunctious boy.
7  And 60 percent of the time, the technique was successful in dislodging beads, beans, and other small items.
8  Silica gel is most commonly encountered in everyday life as beads packed in a semi-permeable plastic.