PARCHMENT in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for PARCHMENT, such as:

1. He'd been ill for a long time, and his skin was like parchment.
2. The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.
3. They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
4. Near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
5. Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 1 week.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARCHMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
parchment
 n.  skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on
Classic Sentence:
1  What's more to the point, with the Will in it; safe and sound; wrapped in parchment.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  I'll show you; engrossed on parchment; enough I'll warrant you to keep us handsomely, for what's to run of our time, as husband and wife.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
3  The old gentleman with the spectacles gradually dozed off, over the little bit of parchment; and there was a short pause, after Oliver had been stationed by Mr. Bumble in front of the desk.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  'We refuse to sanction these indentures,' said the old gentleman: tossing aside the piece of parchment as he spoke.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Those of the dyed barbarians who had chosen the cultivable tracts were, in comparison with those who had left their marks here, as writers on paper beside writers on parchment.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
6  They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
7  She had shrunk all up with her rheumatism since Jurgis had seen her last, and her yellow parchment face stared up at him from a little above the level of the doorknob.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
8  Haley produced, from a well-worn valise, a parchment, which, after looking over it a moment, he handed to Mr. Shelby, who took it with a gesture of suppressed eagerness.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse from the Jewry of the Ghetto.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
10  The cardinal approached the table, and without sitting down, wrote a few lines upon a parchment of which two-thirds were already filled, and affixed his seal.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 67 CONCLUSION
11  Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances in yellow covers, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even though they be gilded like yourself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
Example Sentence:
1  Near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
2  Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 1 week.
3  The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.
4  He'd been ill for a long time, and his skin was like parchment.