LAKE in a Sentence

Learn LAKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
190 example sentences for LAKE, such as:
1. The boys swam across the lake.
2. She found a pasture by the lake.
3. A swallow flew west skimming the lake.
4. The lake stands on the top of the hill.
5. The dinghy sailed smoothly across the lake.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LAKE
lake
 n.  a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
 n.  a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
Classic Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
1  Across its frozen surface, from the farther bank, a single hill rising against the western sun threw the long conical shadow which gave the lake its name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Beyond the lawn, with its pyramidal pale-gold maples and velvety firs, sloped pastures dotted with cattle; and through a long glade the river widened like a lake under the silver light of September.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  The magic place was deserted: there was no sound but the splash of the water on the lily-pads, and a distant drift of music that might have been blown across a sleeping lake.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  Kennicott brought down a fat red squirrel and at dusk he had a dramatic shot at a flight of ducks whirling down from the upper air, skimming the lake, instantly vanishing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  It was the entrance to a Chippewa Indian reservation, a sandy settlement among Norway pines on the shore of a huge snow-glaring lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She found a pasture by the lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Sweet winds blew from the sunny lake beside her, and small waves sputtered on the meadowy shore.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  THEY were driving down the lake to the cottages that moonlit January night, twenty of them in the bob-sled.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  When Kennicott rejoiced, "We'll have a great time this summer; move down to the lake early and wear old clothes and act natural," she smiled, but her smile creaked.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  At the lake cottage she missed the passing of the trains.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  The prairie encircled the lake, lay round her, raw, dusty, thick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  Ray said that he would like to see the ocean; it must be a grand sight; it must be much grander than a lake, even a great big lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  They drove forty miles to the lake in Elder's new Cadillac.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  While the men floated on the lake, casting for black bass, the women prepared lunch and yawned.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  Some leaves were floating about on the still lake.
2  The boys swam across the lake.
3  The dinghy sailed smoothly across the lake.
4  The stone she threw caused ripples to spread across the lake.
5  The lake was recently designated a conservation area.
6  The lake stands on the top of the hill.
7  She decided she would try to forget the episode by the lake.
8  The girl lingered by the lake until it was dark.
9  The windows open on a beautiful view of the lake.
10  The view of lake and plunging cliffs seduces visitors.
11  Police frogmen have been searching the lake looking for a weapon.
12  Police frogmen searched the lake for the murder weapon.
13  A swallow flew west skimming the lake.
14  The new dam will form a large artificial lake behind it.
15  We fenced off the lake in case the children should fall in.