RUM in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for RUM, such as:

1. Within, there were two glasses of rum and milk prepared, and two biscuits.
2. Dolokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window sill.
3. On the table were vodka, a flask of rum, white bread, roast mutton, and salt.
4. Rostov received his tumbler, and adding some rum to it asked Mary Hendrikhovna to stir it.
5. He stirred his rum and water pointedly at me, and he tasted his rum and water pointedly at me.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rum
 n.  liquor distilled from fermented molasses
 a.  beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  But he said nothing after offering his Blue Blazes observation, until the glasses of rum and water were brought; and then he made his shot, and a most extraordinary shot it was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
2  He stirred his rum and water pointedly at me, and he tasted his rum and water pointedly at me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
3  The half-hour and the rum and water running out together, Joe got up to go, and took me by the hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
4  I think I shall trade, also," said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, "to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
5  While I did so, he stood at the table drinking rum and eating biscuit; and when I saw him thus engaged, I saw my convict on the marshes at his meal again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
6  I went straight back to the Temple, where I found the terrible Provis drinking rum and water and smoking negro-head, in safety.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
7  Within, there were two glasses of rum and milk prepared, and two biscuits.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
8  He was a dreadful old man to look at, in a filthy flannel waistcoat, and smelling terribly of rum.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
9  I never saw a man so thoroughly enjoy himself amid the fragrance of lemon-peel and sugar, the odour of burning rum, and the steam of boiling water, as Mr. Micawber did that afternoon.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
10  Chichikov departed to his own room to wash and dress; which process completed, he entered the dining-room to find the table laid with tea-things and a bottle of rum.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
11  Certainly he must have found the situation almost unbearable, in view of the fact that, after deriving inspiration from two glasses of tea not wholly undiluted with rum, Nozdrev was engaged in lying unmercifully.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
12  Dolokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window sill.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
13  Rostov received his tumbler, and adding some rum to it asked Mary Hendrikhovna to stir it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIII
14  Ilyin put a few drops of rum into the bucket of water and brought it to Mary Hendrikhovna, asking her to stir it with her finger.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIII
15  On the table were vodka, a flask of rum, white bread, roast mutton, and salt.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  Singing "Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum," Long John Silver and his fellow pirates started to swill their grog.