BOWL in a Sentence

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94 example sentences for BOWL, such as:

1. The bowl has a chipped edge.
2. Life is just a bowl of cherries.
3. Fold this glass bowl in newspaper.
4. Cover the bowl with an inverted plate.
5. The bowl contained a variety of fruit.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOWL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bowl
 v.  throw or roll a ball; move quickly and smoothly, especially by rolling
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  He followed her and brought the other geraniums, the hyacinth bulbs in a cracked custard bowl and the German ivy trained over an old croquet hoop.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  She picked up the bowl and hurled it viciously across the room toward the fireplace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The large cut-glass bowl held at the door by the Elsings' butler had been emptied twice of its burden of silver coins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  "It would not take more than six dozen to fill that bowl," she argued.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  The branches of the kinnikinic brush were red and smooth as lacquer on a saki bowl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it constantly filled their olfactories.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
7  All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  Here they brought him more "duffers and dope," with the addition of a bowl of soup.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
9  In the center of it was a huge carven bowl, with the glistening gleam of ferns and the red and purple of rare orchids, glowing from a light hidden somewhere in their midst.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  After a short and impressive pause, Chingachgook lighted a pipe whose bowl was curiously carved in one of the soft stones of the country, and whose stem was a tube of wood, and commenced smoking.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
11  The cold sunlight was weaker and Brother Michael was standing at his bedside with a bowl of beef-tea.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  They said: pick, pack, pock, puck: little drops of water in a fountain slowly falling in the brimming bowl.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  While he smoked the brim of his tall hat and the bowl of his pipe were just visible beyond the jambs of the outhouse door.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  Then he has a bloody big bowl of cabbage before him on the table and a bloody big spoon like a shovel.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
15  A bee flew in and buzzed round the blue-dragon bowl that, filled with sulphur-yellow roses, stood before him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand.
2  The school is always having to get out the begging bowl for books and basic equipment.
3  First put the flour in the bowl, and then beat the eggs in.
4  Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
5  The bowl contained a variety of fruit.
6  Put the bulbs in a bowl and cover them over with soil.
7  Cover the bowl with an inverted plate.
8  The bowl has a chipped edge.
9  A fan at my window blew over a block of ice molded in a bowl in my freezer.
10  She dropped the bowl on the floor and it broke into fragments.
11  Fold this glass bowl in newspaper.
12  The glass bowl smashed into a thousand pieces.
13  Our hostess served up a large bowl of steaming hot dumplings.
14  Life is just a bowl of cherries.
15  Mix all the ingredients thoroughly in a large bowl.