KILN in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for KILN, such as:

1. We began at once, however, on a second kiln.
2. The burning of a kiln required about a week.
3. This kiln turned out to be a failure, because it was not properly constructed or properly burned.
4. The failure of this kiln made it still more difficult to get the students to take part in the work.
5. The Simmons boys were so busy they were operating their brick kiln with three shifts of labor a day.

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 Meanings and Examples of KILN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kiln
 n.  large oven; furnace
Classic Sentence:
1  After a good deal of effort we moulded about twenty-five thousand bricks, and put them into a kiln to be burned.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
2  This kiln turned out to be a failure, because it was not properly constructed or properly burned.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
3  We began at once, however, on a second kiln.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
4  The failure of this kiln made it still more difficult to get the students to take part in the work.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
5  Several of the teachers, however, who had been trained in the industries at Hampton, volunteered their services, and in some way we succeeded in getting a third kiln ready for burning.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
6  The burning of a kiln required about a week.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
7  Toward the latter part of the week, when it seemed as if we were going to have a good many thousand bricks in a few hours, in the middle of the night the kiln fell.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
8  The failure of this last kiln left me without a single dollar with which to make another experiment.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
9  About the time that we succeeded in burning our first kiln of bricks we began facing in an emphasized form the objection of the students to being taught to work.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
10  It was another half-hour before I drew near to the kiln.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
11  The white vapor of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
12  The Simmons boys were so busy they were operating their brick kiln with three shifts of labor a day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  The fog was lighter here, and he could see the strange, bottle-shaped kilns with their orange, fanlike tongues of fire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
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