BREAD in a Sentence

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262 example sentences for BREAD, such as:

1. Each day brings its own bread.
2. They spread it on their dry bread.
3. He invented a new method to make bread.
4. The country cut the bread ration last year.
5. We saved a few crusts of bread for the birds.

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 Meanings and Examples of BREAD
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bread
 n.  a food made from flour, water, and usually yeast, mixed together and baked
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Upon which Candide carried him to the Anabaptist's stable, and gave him a crust of bread.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The wary Cacambo had taken care to fill his wallet with bread, chocolate, bacon, fruit, and a few bottles of wine.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVI
3  A million regimented assassins, from one extremity of Europe to the other, get their bread by disciplined depredation and murder, for want of more honest employment.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
4  They make bread for six months at one time; they bake it with dried cow-dung.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  In the winter they break this bread up with an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it eatable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
6  His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk of his own cows.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
7  They spread it on their dry bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
8  There he was, turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
9  In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
10  The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
11  Whether it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an industrious man, should have lacked bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
12  Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of finding employment and bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
13  His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
14  He betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
15  They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the bread which she had been ordered to fetch.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE...
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
16  He bit off a large chunk of bread / He bit a large chunk of bread off.
17  I went to the baker's to buy a loaf of fresh bread.
18  Foods that contain only medium levels of sodium are bread, cakes, milk, butter and margarine.
19  He only drank a cup of black tea and nibbled at a piece of dry bread for his supper.
20  The country cut the bread ration last year.
21  He cut off a small piece of bread and gave it to me.
22  Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.
23  Each day brings its own bread.
24  The cost of butter quadrupled and bread prices increased by a factor of five.
25  We saved a few crusts of bread for the birds.
26  Fill up on potatoes, bread and pasta, which are high in carbohydrate and low in fat.
27  We washed some bread down with a glass of milk for breakfast.
28  The smell of new bread floated up from the kitchen.
29  He invented a new method to make bread.
30  I had three pieces of bread for breakfast this morning.