Use raw in a sentence
Sentences starting with raw
- Raw meat and vitriol punch,--that 's what the authors say. [6]
- Raw Material. [9]
Sentences ending with raw
- At the top stood 'tough, underdone, overdue tripe, garnished with garlic;' half-way down the bill stood 'young cat; old cat; scrambled cat;' at the bottom stood 'sailor-boots, softened with tallow--served raw. [5]
- One of them spoke thus: 'This is my thought--we will eat him raw. [5]
- But I let out then, for them stolen pelts were rasping me on the raw. [11]
- I was the only one they cooked so; the rest were to hang raw. [11]
- With the deftness of a master surgeon Clemens dealt with human emotions and delighted in exposing human nature in the raw. [5]
- They caught a flying-fish and a booby, but had to eat them raw. [5]
More example sentences with the word raw in them
- Of course it would not do to copy a model, raw, like' that, but he fell to studying his traits, trying to see the common humanity exhibited in him. [4]
- Six days ago--it was that raw day which provoked so much comment--my daughter was on her way up from New York, and at noon she telegraphed me from New Haven asking that I meet her with a cloak at Portsmouth. [5]
- So it was warm and snug within, though bleak and raw without; it was light and bright within, though outside it was as dark and dreary as if the world had been lit with Hartford gas. [5]
- But what crude, unrestrained, unfermented--even raw and drugged liquor, must the literary taster put to his unwilling lips day after day! [4]
- I would have told him that 300 Boer sharpshooters behind rocks would be an overmatch for his 500 raw young fellows on horseback. [5]
- We should like to have some statistics as to incompatibility between married couples produced by damp and raw days, and to know whether divorces are more numerous in the States that suffer from a fickle climate than in those where the climate is more equable. [4]
- Are we going to be able to stem the tide, or to help stem it with a lot of raw youths. [9]
- The last bitter thrust of the Duke had touched no raw flesh, his withers were unwrung. [11]
- Yet I think this raw weather is not to continue. [4]
- I didn't read this letter because I thought it was going to slash me on the raw--on the raw flesh of my own lacerating. [11]
- A youth of this kind is raw material in its first stage of elaboration. [6]
- She had touched the raw nerves of his secret vanity. [11]
- He could see the raw colour of her scarf. [11]
- The importation into the novel of the vulgar, sordid, and ignoble in life is always unbearable, unless genius first fuses the raw material in its alembic. [4]
- I tell you, the higher a man has to carry the raw material of thought before he works it up, the more it costs him in blood, nerve, and muscle. [6]
- One group of the French stood close to the road, and two of them, one of whom had his face covered with sores, were tearing a piece of raw flesh with their hands. [2]
- Such people as the Dryfooses are the raw material of good society. [8]
- Big Tom refused the chicken he had provided for us, and strengthened himself with slices of raw salt pork, which he cut from a hunk with his clasp-knife. [4]
- Their idea is that its conglomerate metals will reimburse them their cost of original extraction, the price of transportation, and the expense of reduction, and that then a ton of the raw ore will net them twelve hundred dollars. [5]
- I tell you, that if, instead of raw Boston sailors, ploughmen and merchant captains, and fishing craft and trading vessels, I had three English war-ships and one thousand men, I would level your town from the citadel to the altar of St. Joseph's. [11]
- But the other sulked, and muttered something about revenge.--Jest as ye like,--said the young man John.--Clap a slice o' raw beefsteak on to that mouse o' yours 'n' 't'll take down the swellin'. [6]
- In the raw state of her sensitiveness she felt all this as a terrible and perhaps intended humiliation. [4]
- It was half-past six, and we were tired and hungry, when the domain of Egger towered in sight,--a gaunt, two-story structure of raw brick, unfinished, standing in a narrow intervale. [4]
- It was favourably situated for this purpose, for the raw materials could be moved from the ships which brought them to Tennis directly into the building. [10]
- One of the significant proposals under this head is that which demands the retention of the centralization of the purchase of raw materials brought about by the war. [9]
- And yet that short-sighted man needed the Chaplain more than any other member, perhaps, for he generally sat with his feet on his desk, eating raw turnips, during the morning prayer. [5]
- And puncheons of rum from Jamaica and the Indies for his people, holding that no gentleman ever drank rum in the raw, though fairly supportable as punch. [9]
- Lecompton in the raw was defeated. [7]
- He had more raw places on him than sound ones. [5]
- It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. [6]
- The air was raw and searching; Nature was sulky. [11]
- The host, Lykortas, pointed out to Hadrian an old gentleman who was busy in the court that was so prettily decorated with still-life, engaged in choosing the raw materials of a banquet he wished to give some friends in the evening of this very day. [10]
- He had raw places on him. [5]
- The big one picturesque and superior in a raw kind of way. [11]
- Another dish, called palmiste, is like raw turnip-shavings and tastes like green almonds; is very delicate and good. [5]
- He saw him only as a man of raw vigour of opinion, crude manners, and heavy temperament. [11]
- Two long rows of prostrate forms--more than forty, in all--and every face and head a shapeless wad of loose raw cotton. [5]
- When the hour of battle arrived, these two and the sailing master, and a number of raw midshipmen, were the only line-officers left, and two French officers of marines. [9]
- It was ten o'clock, raw and cold for that time of the year, and the sun was trying to come out. [9]
- The alkali water nipped him in all the raw places simultaneously, and he struck out for the shore with considerable interest. [5]
- His clothes were nearly gone, his hair was tossed and matted, his eyes bloodshot, his big hands like pieces of raw meat, his feet covered with blood. [11]
- But the governor merely said: "You have a raw temper, sir. [11]
- He's the raw material of a great artist and a good citizen. [8]
- We saw a manuscript of Virgil, with annotations in the handwriting of Petrarch, the gentleman who loved another man's Laura, and lavished upon her all through life a love which was a clear waste of the raw material. [5]
- I know him--the man who shall lead the hunt and find the gold--the only man in all that cursed Boston whose heart I would not eat raw, so help me Judas! [11]
- But this young man was clothed in the plain blue calico of the fellah, and on his head was a coarse brown fez of raw wool. [11]
- When nothing was left but raw ham and the ration of that was down to two ounces a day per person, the appetites were perfect. [5]
- Another thing we learned is that England wants raw material; I thought I might as well say it, for it wouldn't be polite for you. [4]
- The dogs looked lazily up, flinched a little when the impatient feet of the sheep touched their raw backs--sighed, and lay peacefully down again. [5]
- Gentlemen strolling by--doctor, lawyer, officer, idler--paused and forgot the raw climate, for this marvellous voice in the unshapely body warmed them, and they pushed in among the fast-gathering crowd. [11]
- Spoiled apparently; but it was not so; they were better than raw ones. [5]
- She has wisdom in the raw, and a real grip on life, and yet all the men she has known have been river-drivers and farmers, and a few men from town who mistook the sort of Suzon she is. [11]
- I am always in raw health--the strong mind in the potent body. [11]
- I kept you in luxury--you that fed in the cattle-kraal; you that had mealies to eat and a shred of biltong when you could steal it; you that ate a steinbok raw on the Vaal, you were so wild for meat . [11]
- He was clothed in linseed oil and raw cotton to his waist, and resembled nothing human. [5]
- The miseries of hunger made the bird willing to eat raw flesh, since it could get no other food, and it began to pick remnants of meat from sheep skins hung out on the fences to dry. [5]
- There was a horrible fascination in watching the skin corrugate under the lashes, rippling away in red and purple blotches, the grooves in the flesh crossing and recrossing, the raw misery spreading from the hips to the shoulders. [11]
- My splendid Kipling himself hasn't a more burnt-in, hard-baked, and unforgetable familiarity with that death-on-the-pale- horse-with-hell-following-after, which is a raw soldier's first fortnight in the field--and which, without any doubt, is the most tremendous fortnight and the vividest he is ever going to see. [5]
- Faddo had touched him on the raw when he fetched out that about Tom Doane. [11]
- Very soon they heard The Butcher's heavy footstep as he went out to get his raw meat and vitriol punch. [6]
- Of all that he himself subsequently termed his sufferings, but which at the time he scarcely felt, the worst was the state of his bare, raw, and scab-covered feet. [2]
- Chateau-Leoville, Goulet, and Havanas at a bob?--Jove, I thirst for a swig of raw Bourbon and the bite of a penny Mexican! [11]
- Give me your hand, Jacques; and don't you forget that there are two Gaston Belwards, and the one you have hunted and lived with is the one you want to remember when you get raw with the new one. [11]
- And upon some half dozen huge dishes were piled slices of beef, mutton, and buffalo tongue; beside them were great jugs of lager beer, rolls of bread, and plates of a sort of cabbage cut into thin shreds, raw, and mixed with vinegar. [9]
- The vast ice-hummocks had been his housing, pemmican, the raw flesh of fish, and even the fat and oil of seals had been his food. [11]
- They have been ground out of the raw material of the soul. [11]
- This would presently fret off the skin, and make the flesh raw and angry-looking; blood was then rubbed upon the limb, which, being fully dried, took on a dark and repulsive colour. [5]
- These persons all fresh, raw, and red--apparently skinned. [5]
- Where shall I find the raw material? [5]
- There are a few fine pictures of his here, and I go in sometimes of a raw, foggy morning merely to warm myself in the blaze of their beauty. [6]
- These latter played euchre in the smoking room day and night, drank astonishing quantities of raw whisky without being in the least affected by it, and were the happiest people I think I ever saw. [5]
- When Pollux had eaten his breakfast he went to his table exactly as he had done the clay before; but the sight of the work in hand had quite a different effect to the mere raw clay and wax. [10]
- The medical man's dry allusions touched him on the raw all too often. [11]
- Then he crept downward to the raw steps again, then picked up his agile heels and flew. [5]
- They lived fifteen days on pinches of raw ham, a suck at sailor-boots, and general starvation. [5]
- After this the creature was commonly muzzled, and, as he was fed on raw meat chiefly, was always ready for a fight, which he was occasionally indulged in, when anything stout enough to match him could be found in any of the neighboring villages. [6]
- Into one little chamber of this temple, he dropped an egg; into another some coffee; into a third a compact piece of raw steak from a neat tin case; into a fourth, he poured some water. [12]
- No man except Carnac, and that he had done it was like a lash upon the raw skinless flesh. [11]
- It was soon apparent that this was indeed the dinner: it was all on the table: it consisted of abundance of clear, fresh water, and a basin of raw turnips--nothing more. [5]
- Smith got down and took off the saddle, but the blanket stuck fast to the horse--glued to a procession of raw places. [5]
- There are guides and porters to carry the blankets for beds, the raw provisions, and the camp equipage; and the motley party of the temporarily decivilized files into the woods, and begins, perhaps by a road, perhaps on a trail, its exhilarating and weary march. [4]
- There was something almost uncouth in this harsh high voice, these gauche words, this raw accent; but it was powerful and vengeful, and it was full of purpose. [11]
- He could make a whole class raw with punishment in a few words; and many a scorching bit of Latin verse was written about his hooked nose and fishy eye. [11]
- He stood for a moment looking at me with direct earnestness from under his strong brows, and then he stepped forward, and, laying his hand upon my arm, rejoined: "Do not be raw, Marmion. [11]
- The earth is a great factory-wheel, which, at every revolution on its axis, receives fifty thousand raw souls and turns off nearly the same number worked up more or less completely. [6]
- It was such a contrast; the artist was saying to Marion, as they leaned over the taffrail, to the new raw villages in the Catskills. [4]
- For three-quarters of a century our 'amour propre' was constantly kept raw by the most supercilious patronage. [4]
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