HERB in a Sentence

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47 example sentences for HERB, such as:

1. Peony is a kind of herbs.
2. Add a teaspoonful of mixed herbs.
3. Put herbs inside the body cavity of the fish.
4. Saturate the meat in the mixture of oil and herbs.
5. For this dish, fresh herbs and garlic are preferable.

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 Meanings and Examples of HERB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
herb
 n.  plant lacking a permanent woody stem, some having medicinal properties
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  She drugged the wine with an herb that banishes all care, sorrow, and ill humour.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
2  Take this herb, which is one of great virtue, and keep it about you when you go to Circe's house, it will be a talisman to you against every kind of mischief.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
3  As he spoke he pulled the herb out of the ground and shewed me what it was like.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
4  My eyes became accustomed to the light and to perceive objects in their right forms; I distinguished the insect from the herb, and by degrees, one herb from another.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  He gathered here and there a herb, or grubbed up a root and put it into the basket on his arm.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
6  Alone I linger, I pluck the bitter herb by the ruined wall, the churchyard wall, and press its sour, its sweet, its sour, long grey leaf, so, twixt thumb and finger.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
7  We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  Into these pavilions he admitted the elect, and there, says Marco Polo, gave them to eat a certain herb, which transported them to Paradise, in the midst of ever-blooming shrubs, ever-ripe fruit, and ever-lovely virgins.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
9  So sprinkled was the pasture with rag-baby blossoms and the cottony herb of Indian tobacco that it spread out like a rare old Persian carpet of cream and rose and delicate green.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  Come with me, friend John, and you shall help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the way from Haarlem, where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass-houses all the year.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  "Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Tushin," it said.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI
12  Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
13  He waved his hand, and betook himself again to his employment of gathering herbs.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
14  She wondered what sort of herbs they were which the old man was so sedulous to gather.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
15  Pearl, whose activity of spirit never flagged, had been at no loss for amusement while her mother talked with the old gatherer of herbs.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
Example Sentence:
1  A herb is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties, flavor, scent.
2  Treatment with medicinal herb is attended with good results.
3  Add a teaspoonful of mixed herbs.
4  Add a little salt to bring out the flavour of the herbs.
5  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
6  Put the lamb in the centre of the dish, with the vegetables and herbs around the edge.
7  For this dish, fresh herbs and garlic are preferable.
8  You need to use fresh herbs to get the authentic Italian taste.
9  She learned how to identify medicinal herbs from a traditional Chinese doctor.
10  Put herbs inside the body cavity of the fish.
11  Peony is a kind of herbs.
12  Saturate the meat in the mixture of oil and herbs.
13  In addition to the choice of herbs and seasoning, the timing of when flavors are added will affect the food that is being cooked.
14  Medieval sailing vessels brought aromatic herbs from China to Europe.
15  Before sprinkling the dried herbs into the stew, they first pulverize them into a fine powder.