CRUMB in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for CRUMB, such as:
1. A robin was pecking at crumbs on the ground.
2. Thanks for the crumbs from your table, Mrs. Dives.
3. Eyes fed on her as fish rise to a crumb of bread on the water.
4. She swept up extremely carefully and no crumb was left any more.
5. Hansel, however little by little, threw all the crumbs on the path.
2. Thanks for the crumbs from your table, Mrs. Dives.
3. Eyes fed on her as fish rise to a crumb of bread on the water.
4. She swept up extremely carefully and no crumb was left any more.
5. Hansel, however little by little, threw all the crumbs on the path.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CRUMB
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crumb
v. break into crumbs
v. remove crumbs from
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 Eyes fed on her as fish rise to a crumb of bread on the water.
2 She had nothing to give them--not a crumb of bread.
3 Like a fish rising to a crumb of biscuit, Bartholomew snapped at the paper.
4 He had picked up every crumb that had been left from his former meals, and was beginning to eat the matting which covered the floor of his cell.
5 I thanked him for his friendship and caution, and our discourse proceeded in a low tone, while I toasted the Aged's sausage and he buttered the crumb of the Aged's roll.
6 A polite tumult broke out under the trees as the guests arose, shaking crumbs from laps.
7 Thanks for the crumbs from your table, Mrs. Dives.
8 Most of the crumbs drop on the red plush of the seat, and the woman sighs and tries to brush them away, but they leap up impishly and fall back on the plush.
9 The oldest boy takes a mouth-organ out of his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays "Marching through Georgia" till every head in the car begins to ache.
10 Then she turned wearily to Kennicott in a house filled with quiet and crumbs and shreds of Chinese costumes.
11 But she died between summers; then Robert posed as an inconsolable, prostrating himself at the feet of Madame Ratignolle for whatever crumbs of sympathy and comfort she might be pleased to vouchsafe.
12 You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle: 'crumbs would all wash off in the sea.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context Highlight In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
Context Highlight In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
13 Hansel, however little by little, threw all the crumbs on the path.
14 When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.
15 Candish, with his curved brush had swept the crumbs; had spared the petals and finally left the family to dessert.
Example Sentence:
1 She swept up extremely carefully and no crumb was left any more.
2 A robin was pecking at crumbs on the ground.