CRUCIBLE in a Sentence

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1. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRUCIBLE
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Classic Sentence:
1  A crucible into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a demi-god.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
2  Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
3  Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being final, the human trinity proceeds from it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
4  The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
5  During the next half-century and more, my race must continue passing through the severe American crucible.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
Example Sentence:
1  The soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.