Use bread in a sentence
Sentences starting with bread
- Bread gone, cows gone, milk gone. [10]
- Bread and milk, fruits and vegetables from his neighbour's little garden, satisfied him, and when the wine he had drunk was used, he contented himself, obedient to old Tabus's advice, with pure water. [10]
- Bread and raisins all gone.--Captain's Log. [5]
Sentences ending with bread
- Myrtle will have white bread. [6]
- He knew now what it means to live bereft of light, and, he added in a low tone, to be also poor and unable to earn his daily bread. [10]
- Before his house were ranged forty or fifty great platters of fine bread. [4]
- But the feather was stolen from my hat in the tavern, and the landlord devoured onions as if they were white bread. [10]
- Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
- Presently, however, I took the knife which I had hidden a year before, and cut pieces of the meat and laid them by the bread. [11]
- They were eating their evening-meal, consisting of a roasted antelope, and large flat cakes of bread. [10]
- Being cast upon the world by his master's death, he determined to go through it upon his head and hands, and accordingly began to tumble for his bread. [12]
- The faint-hearted and the Spanish sympathizers raised their heads and assembled in bands, one of which forced a passage into the council-chamber and demanded bread. [10]
- Reform, contrary to the preconceived opinion of many, is not made of icicles, nor answers with a stone a request for bread. [9]
Short sentences using bread
- Beer and bread were unlimited. [4]
- The bread is exhausted. [10]
- Myrtle won't have brown bread. [6]
- They have no bread? [2]
- A morsel of bread. [12]
- Good, nourishing bread! [10]
- Give us bread! [10]
- Bread, bread! [10]
Sentences containing bread two or more times
- At his mercy was the daily bread of every official, every trader, every clerk, every civil servant, big and little, in the whole huge India Company's machine, and the man who hazarded his bread by any failure of subserviency to the boss lost it. [5]
- Yet all day, since he had eaten the sacred bread, there had been ringing in his ears the words: "Holy bread, I take thee; If I die suddenly, Serve me as a sacrament. [11]
- Physicians cure many patients with a bread pill; they know that where the disease is only a fancy, the patient's confidence in the doctor will make the bread pill effective. [5]
- All the bread need not be French rolls, all the shoes need not be patent leather ones; but the bread must be something that can be eaten, and the shoes must be something that can be worn. [3]
- Work means money, money means bread, bread means life--so. [11]
- Our bread is honest bread, we work for our living. [5]
- But as he had the brook Cherith, and the bread and flesh in the morning and the bread and flesh in the evening which the ravens brought him, so she had the river and her secret store of books. [6]
- The gentry usually ate wheat bread, of which there were four kinds, and the poor generally bread made of rye, barley, and even oats and acorns. [4]
- He knew that at the Miner's Restaurant he could get a plate of beans and a piece of bread for ten cents; or a fish-ball and some few trifles, but they gave "no bread with one fish-ball" there. [5]
More example sentences with the word bread in them
- You live by your smallness, another makes his living with his hard hands, I earn my scanty bread by the thoughts of my brain. [10]
- We will chasten you with bread and water; and it were well for you, even by your strange religion, to qualify for passage from this world. [11]
- Let this console you when the bread fails. [5]
- Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
- They say that you cannot live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments. [5]
- Enough to give you bread from day to day-no more. [11]
- For some years yet he must continue to earn his daily bread by the sweat of his brow, having absolutely no means, no home, no friend to consult. [7]
- Here it was written why those who asked should receive, and those who sought should find: "For what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? [10]
- Jane greeted him with surprise and warmth, set meat and bread and drink before him; and called Lassiter out to see him. [13]
- They had served with Nicholls in Spain, but not having eaten King Louis's bread, eyed all Frenchmen askance, and were not needlessly courteous to Iberville, whose achievements they could scarce appreciate, having done no Indian fighting. [11]
- So, as the winter went on, she starved in silence, and no one had more than sour milk and bread and a potato now and then. [11]
- The travelling musicians who, to save a few pennies, had begun to eat bread, cheese, and radishes, instead of the warm meals provided for the others, let their knives drop and set down the wine-jugs. [10]
- As men meet who parted yesterday, Kaid, Nahoum, and David met, but Kaid's first quiet words to David had behind them a world of meaning: "I also have come back, Saadat, to whom be the bread that never moulds and the water that never stales! [11]
- The good gifts which Heaven formerly permitted me to enjoy have lost their zest; instead of bread, it now gives me stones. [10]
- Even Mr. Holt, when not munching his dried bread, was tempted to make some inquiries about the market. [9]
- They eat nothing whatever but bread and salt; they drink nothing but water. [5]
- The thought of what might happen when, after these days of working for her bread ended, still more terrible ones followed, had troubled her again and again the day before. [10]
- On the table were vodka, a flask of rum, white bread, roast mutton, and salt. [2]
- The insurrectionary troop were locked into an open court upon bread and water, and as the usual room of detention of the establishment was too small for them all, for two nights they had had to sleep in a loft on thin straw mats. [10]
- Meantime the Indians were bringing in supplies of corn and meat, the men were so improved in health that thirty were able to work, and provision for three weeks' bread was laid up. [4]
- To be sure, we broke many a piece of bread together in war and peace in the same service. [10]
- This ceremony, which was taken to be a kind of idolatry, ended, mats were brought from the houses, whereon the guests were seated, and given to eat bread made of maize, and tobacco to smoke. [4]
- The whole ground was strewed with fragments of clothing, haversacks, canteens, cap-boxes, bullets, cartridge-boxes, cartridges, scraps of paper, portions of bread and meat. [6]
- And Uncle Tom was right when he said we should have nothing but jam and bread and butter for supper: oh, yes, and cold meat. [9]
- And yet he was not a gross gourmand; he would eat bread if he saw me eating it, and thought he was not being imposed on. [4]
- How quiet it was inside when her light supper was eaten, bread and beans and pea-soup--she had got this from her French mother. [11]
- W-wondered what I was goin' to eat--wahn't nothin' but a piece of bread on the table. [9]
- The fortune of war flung me under the Spanish flag, and 'whose bread I eat, his song I sing,' says the soldier. [10]
- When the governor wakes in the morning he thinks first of his salary; he has not the least anxiety about his daily bread or the support of his family. [4]
- In the second volume, the author gives us an ample supply of excellent brown bread; in his third, only such a portion as gives substance, like the crumbs of bread in a well-made, not too rich, plum-pudding. [14]
- Each one of us had a half, and how gladly we ate the little morsel, for even a taste of any dainty seemed good to us, after we had lived on nothing but bread and potatoes. [10]
- How they sprang upon a bone, how they crunched the bread we gave them! [5]
- She lifted him up, kissed him, and then asked the mother, who also greeted her, for a piece of bread, for her hunger was becoming intolerable. [10]
- Smith sent men up to their town, a display of force was made by firing four guns, and the Indians kindly traded, giving fish, oysters, bread, and deer. [4]
- It consisted of two kinds of wine; tea, bread, cheese, and cold meats, and was served on the centre-tables in the reception room and the verandahs--anywhere that was convenient; there was no ceremony. [5]
- But as it turns out, just at that moment a third enemy rises before us--namely the Orthodox Russian soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! [2]
- Well, I am truly glad to foregather with you again, and partake of the bread and salt of this hospitable house once more. [5]
- Look you, after to-day you and I will never break bread or drink wine together. [11]
- It seems hard to think of his going round like a hand-organ man, with such music and such thought as his to earn his bread with. [6]
- Wetmore came up to their corner, with a scroll of bread and butter in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. [8]
- I shall go to the wall for bread and meat if I neglect my business this year as well as last. [7]
- It was impossible to take bread and clothes from our hungry and indispensable soldiers to give to the French who, though not harmful, or hated, or guilty, were simply unnecessary. [2]
- I straightway began to scatter crumbs of bread, that it might, perhaps, come near me--as at last it did. [11]
- He composed himself to rest and eat some bread and meat, while he waited for a sufficient time to elapse so that he could safely give the horses a drink. [13]
- Kutuzov's adjutant whispered to Prince Andrew that this was the wife of the priest whose home it was, and that she intended to offer his Serene Highness bread and salt. [2]
- Gabord had come to me three times, and seeing how sound asleep I was had not disturbed me, but had brought bread and water--my prescribed diet. [11]
- It is hard to leave your gracious Majesty and Sophonisba; but bread, Sire, bread--is necessary to life. [10]
- And they said to him: "This Ching divil comes till Ameriky to take the bread out o' dacent intilligent white men's mouths, and whir they try to defind their rights there's a dale o' fuss made about it. [5]
- They forced me to eat out of the same pot with them and cut my bread with the same knife. [10]
- You aren't going to drive away one of our boarders and take the bread out of our mouths. [11]
- They were not to be cooked until the expected visitors arrived, and she had plenty of bread besides. [10]
- Smith they conducted to a long house, where thirtie or fortie tall fellowes did guard him, and ere long more bread and venison were brought him then would have served twentie men. [4]
- Rather, a thousand times rather, would he beg his bread, and attain great things in Art, than riot and revel in good-fortune. [10]
- It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs. [11]
- This was a time for broad policy-- for distribution of cassavi bread, yams and papaws, for big, and maybe rough, display of power and generosity. [11]
- Now I shall tie it on and go and ask Serapion for some bread for you and perhaps he will give us a few dates. [10]
- The soldiers, who threw sidelong glances at Pierre, got the fire to burn and placed an iron pot on it into which they broke some dried bread and put a little dripping. [2]
- They have no thought for the toiling or spinning, Striving for bread that is dust in the gaining, They have won all that is well worth the winning-- Past all distaining. [11]
- He did not think that Macnamara's position would be greatly bettered, save perhaps in bread and onions, by being taken into the employ of the Khalifa. [11]
- With one accord they rose in their places and swore over bread and a drop of blood of their chief that they would not sheathe their swords again till a thousand of Boonda Broke's and the Dakoon's men lay where their own kinsmen had fallen. [11]
- At Koongat Bridge they rested for two hours, and drank coffee, and broke bread, and Cumner's Son slept by the side of Tang-a-Dahit, as brothers sleep by their mother's bed. [11]
- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject. [12]
- The strangers were then led into the tent, and were there welcomed and entertained with all honor, and offered bread and wine. [10]
- These Indians kept them company for some time, meeting them here and there with presents of strawberries, mulberries, bread, and fish, for which they received pins, needles, and beads. [4]
- The poor drew their belts tighter, and the morsel of bread, distributed by the city to each individual, was no longer enough to quiet hunger and support life. [10]
- He had now the sweetness of earning daily bread by the work of his hands; of giving to the poor, the needy, and the afflicted; of knowing for the first time in his life that he was not alone in the world. [11]
- He had not the strength to earn his bread on a farm. [9]
- The bread in the saddle-bag would feed her for a few days, and now it lay with her to escape pursuit. [10]
- She had had the precaution to furnish her basket with some slices of bread and meat, and here they made their frugal breakfast. [12]
- Besides Indian corn, the parching of which amused me, I had dried ham and tongue, and bread and cheese, enough, by frugal use, to last me a month at least. [11]
- Only bread and the newspaper we must have, whatever else we do without. [6]
- V More About the Machine Note.--When Mrs. W. asks how can a millionaire give a single dollar to colleges and museums while one human being is destitute of bread, she has answered her question herself. [5]
- I never saw the like--and yet looking as beautiful as Satan, too--and couldn't seem to do anything but paw bread crumbs, and pick flowers to pieces, and look fidgety. [5]
- She went to the kitchen and brought bread, and cold venison, and prairie fowl, and stewed dried apples--the stay and luxury of all rural Canadian homes. [11]
- The conversation of the hostess and her guests turned upon details of the kitchen and the laundry; upon the best mode of raising bread, whether with "emptins" (emptyings, yeast) or baking powder; about "bluing" and starching and crimping, and similar matters. [6]
- To provide against the flurried inquisition of his eye, I kept near me bread well chewed, with which I filled the hole, covering it with the sand I had rubbed or the ashes of my pipe. [11]
- Onuphis travelled to the Euphrates, settled there, and was obliged to seek for some means of earning his daily bread, as he had left Egypt a poor man. [10]
- In Old England the daughter would have eaten the bitter bread of a governess in some rich family. [6]
- They shall guard the camp tomorrow; they will be equal to that when it is made clear to their understanding that, if they let the tents be taken, the bread, meat and wines-skins will also fall into the hands of the enemy. [10]
- It was: "Pass the bread, you son of a skunk! [5]
- The sight of the bread doubled his hunger; but it was good to look at it, any how, and imagine what one might do if one only had it. [5]
- I have learned the bitter taste of the bread which you provide. [10]
- Should you dispute the bill, I will not stoop to quarrel with you, but, try to live on bread and butter a while longer. [9]
- In one of the apartments some rough-looking peasants are eating dinner, a frugal meal: a dish of unclean polenta, a plate of grated cheese, a basket of wormy figs, and some sour red wine; no bread, no meat. [4]
- But--I have learned that--no happiness will thrive on bread and water, and even a modest competence, as it is called, won't do for me. [10]
- I am told that the old masters had to do these shameful things for bread, the princes and potentates being the only patrons of art. [5]
- Can you believe that in all Spain there is no fresh butter to be had, either for bread or in the kitchen for roast meat, but instead rancid oil, which we should think just fit for burning? [10]
- They will appreciate that half a loaf is better than no bread. [4]
- Why do your teeth like crackling crust, and your organs of taste like spongy crumb, and your digestive contrivances take kindly to bread rather than toadstools-- That Boy (thinking he was still being catechised).--Because they do. [6]
- At last he tasted the meat, and thought of many former noon-day meals, and how he had often found a flower in the satchel, that Uarda had placed there to please him, with the bread. [10]
- Yes, and they take loaves of bread and put quicksilver in 'em and set 'em afloat, and wherever there's anybody that's drownded, they'll float right there and stop. [5]
- A strange and surly soldier came and went, bringing bread and water; but when I asked that a physician be sent me, he replied, with a vile oath, that the devil should be my only surgeon. [11]
- And fetch a stoup of that rare wine That hailed my father's fame; And bear some white bread from the shrine Built to my mother's name. [11]
- This apparition soon stood before him, puffing, and dripping, and regarding, with greedy eyes, the bread and cheese which the old man was eating. [10]
- Afternoon tea was still rather a new custom with us, more of a ceremony than a meal; and as Nancy handed me my cup and the thinnest of slices of bread and butter I found the intimacy of the situation a little disquieting. [9]
- And then I stepped out musing, and almost walked over a vagabond who was eating his dinner on the curbstone--a piece of bread and a bunch of grapes. [5]
- The board was spread for them as it were, and yet she and Gotz, by their baleful oath, had barred themselves from tasting of that bread and that cup. [10]
- But I who speak to you have been hungry, I know that fifty cents will buy ten loaves of bread, or three pounds of the neck of pork, or six quarts of milk for the babies. [9]
- They gave thee sour bread to eat ere thy going, but yet thee didst grind the flour for the baking. [11]
- Simnel = a sort of biscuit, cup-shaped, supposed to represent unleavened bread, specially eaten at Easter. [11]
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