PINT in a Sentence

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28 example sentences for PINT, such as:

1. I sometimes enjoy a pint of ale.
2. There are eight pints in a gallon.
3. There's half a pint of ale for you.
4. Add two pints of water to the mixture.
5. I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel.

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 Meanings and Examples of PINT
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pint
 n.  a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  With these words she suddenly splashed a pint of icy water down my neck, and pulled me into the kitchen.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  While saying this he took a pint bottle of brandy from the dresser, and poured some into a tumbler.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
5  There being plenty of gravy to-day, Joe spooned into my plate, at this point, about half a pint.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
6  I know, but this is another pint, a separate matter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
7  There's half a pint of ale for you.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
8  '"De pint is, needer you nor me had no bizness bein' wid Yankees, so dey could 'sult me.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Your woraciousness, fellow-critters, I don't blame ye so much for; dat is natur, and can't be helped; but to gobern dat wicked natur, dat is de pint.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
10  'Little now; be very much when cook,' spreading out her hands as if to indicate that the pint would swell to a gallon.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
11  Rousing himself sufficiently to sit up and look about him, he found that worthy in close fellowship and communication with a labouring man, over a pint of ale.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  As he wouldn't go away, and shocked the company very much, our overseer sent him out a pound of potatoes and half a pint of oatmeal.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Mr. Bumble rushed to the closet; and, snatching a pint green-glass bottle from the shelf thus incoherently indicated, filled a tea-cup with its contents, and held it to the lady's lips.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
15  Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not punished.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
Example Sentence:
1  Cider also goes up by a penny a pint while sparkling wine will cost another eight pence a bottle.
2  One unit of alcohol is equal to half a pint of beer.
3  One unit of alcohol is equal to half a pint of beer or a standard measure of spirits.
4  As you take your new road, We wish you a cup of success, A pint of happiness, And a jug of achievements.
5  Aim to have at least half a pint of milk each day.
6  I sometimes enjoy a pint of ale.
7  Add two pints of water to the mixture.
8  There are eight pints in a gallon.
9  I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel.