EGGS in a Sentence

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140 example sentences for EGGS, such as:

1. Fat hens lay few eggs.
2. I bought four dozen eggs.
3. Most birds lay eggs in the spring.
4. Birds, fish, and insects lay eggs.
5. I fear that the scrambled eggs are cold.

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 Meanings and Examples of EGGS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eggs
 n.  one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
 n.  oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  One Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
3  Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
5  Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
6  Whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
7  He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
8  All alike, they clustered themselves down on the eggs in the soft nestling ponderosity of the female urge, the female nature, fluffing out their feathers.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  The wood was silent, still and secret in the evening drizzle of rain, full of the mystery of eggs and half-open buds, half unsheathed flowers.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
10  'I don't think people are eggs,' he said.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  Mrs. Norris could not speak with any temper of such grievances, nor of the quantity of butter and eggs that were regularly consumed in the house.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  He received us in his quietly genial fashion, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
13  Sherlock Holmes swallowed a cup of coffee, and turned his attention to the ham and eggs.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
14  I fear that the scrambled eggs are cold.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
15  "He knows all about eggs and nests," Mary went on.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
16  I bought four dozen eggs.
17  Fat hens lay few eggs.
18  Birds, fish, and insects lay eggs.
19  She lays a clutch of four eggs on average.
20  Combine the eggs with a little flour and heat the mixture gently.
21  They dig a small hole in the sand to bury their eggs.
22  Two days later, they implanted the fertilized eggs back inside me.
23  Don't keep all your eggs in one basketball.
24  Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
25  Most birds lay eggs in the spring.
26  Mother turtles burrow into the sand to lay their eggs.
27  The female digs a pit in which to lay the eggs.
28  Open-sea fish lay several million eggs each breeding season.
29  The time needed for the eggs to incubate is nine or ten days.
30  The lost camper staved off death from hunger by eating birds eggs.