BREAD in a Sentence

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262 example sentences for BREAD, such as:
1. Man does not live by bread alone.
2. They spread it on their dry bread.
3. Yeast is the raising agent in bread.
4. Half a loaf is better then no bread.
5. The type of bread has added vitamins.
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 Meanings and Examples of BREAD
bread
 n.  informal terms for money
 n.  food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Upon which Candide carried him to the Anabaptist's stable, and gave him a crust of bread.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The wary Cacambo had taken care to fill his wallet with bread, chocolate, bacon, fruit, and a few bottles of wine.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVI
3  A million regimented assassins, from one extremity of Europe to the other, get their bread by disciplined depredation and murder, for want of more honest employment.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
4  They make bread for six months at one time; they bake it with dried cow-dung.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  In the winter they break this bread up with an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it eatable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
6  His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk of his own cows.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
7  They spread it on their dry bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
8  There he was, turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
9  In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with water, oil, bread, and salt; a little bacon, a bit of mutton, figs, a fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
10  The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
11  Whether it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an industrious man, should have lacked bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
12  Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of finding employment and bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
13  His breakfast was served; he seized the bread, took a mouthful, and then slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
14  He betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
15  They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the bread which she had been ordered to fetch.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE...
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  The mobile phone business was actually his bread and butter.
2  Yeast is the raising agent in bread.
3  I'll allow the children to dip their bread into the soup.
4  Man does not live by bread alone.
5  The bread always falls buttered side down.
6  Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread.
7  Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
8  Many basic foodstuffs, such as bread and milk, are tax-free.
9  I need to buy a few basic things like bread and milk.
10  Heat the bread until it is warm to the touch.
11  The type of bread has added vitamins.
12  He nibbled a piece of bread while drawing a picture.
13  Wholemeal bread is more nutritious than white bread.
14  Half a loaf is better then no bread.
15  To make a ham sandwich you put a slice of ham between two slices of bread.