FLOUR in a Sentence

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40 example sentences for FLOUR, such as:

1. He beat the eggs into the flour.
2. The flour was ground from barley.
3. Whisk the egg and then add the flour.
4. And the flour and rice and dried peas.
5. If the dough is sticky, add more flour.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLOUR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flour
 n.  fine powdery foodstuff; soft, fine powder
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  White flour was scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Beef, pork and butter cost thirty-five dollars a pound, flour fourteen hundred dollars a barrel, soda one hundred dollars a pound, tea five hundred dollars a pound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  One old man struggled along with a small barrel of flour on a wheelbarrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  And the flour and rice and dried peas.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  The flour and pork alone cost thirty dollars last month.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  There was an open barrel of cornmeal on the floor, a small sack of flour, a pound of coffee, a little sugar, a gallon jug of sorghum and two hams.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  She had found that staple groceries, sugar, flour, could be most cheaply purchased at Axel Egge's rustic general store.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  I know something about wheat from my farming, and I worked a couple of months in the flour mill at Curlew when I got sick of tailoring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  In one there were some potatoes that had been frozen and were rotting, in the other was a little pile of flour.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
10  As we rose to go, she opened her wooden chest and brought out a bag made of bed-ticking, about as long as a flour sack and half as wide, stuffed full of something.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
11  Two mutton-chops, three potatoes, some split peas, a little flour, two ounces of butter, a pinch of salt, and all this black pepper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
12  The children especially going to school, the bluish doves flying down from the roofs to the pavement, and the little loaves covered with flour, thrust out by an unseen hand, touched him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 15
13  And he related how a peasant had stolen some flour from the miller, and when the miller told him of it, had lodged a complaint for slander.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
14  Then she turned upon him a back that was smeared with flour and had a long slit in the lower portion of its covering.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
15  Labour should be kept in active operation, and, even as, in a mill, flour comes flowing from grain, so should cash, and yet more cash, come flowing from every atom of refuse and remnant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  We'd better add in some lemon juice before mixing the flour with sugar.
2  If the dough is sticky, add more flour.
3  Beat up the eggs before you add the flour.
4  Whisk the egg and then add the flour.
5  We'll add some flour to thicken the soup.
6  Add in the lemon after mixing the flour and sugar.
7  Pasta's basic ingredients are flour and water, sometimes with the addition of eggs or oil.
8  He beat the eggs into the flour.
9  First put the flour in the bowl, and then beat the eggs in.
10  The grain store processed flour wrappers for Chinese dumplings.
11  Particles of wet flour cohered to form a paste.
12  The flour was ground from barley.
13  Blend the sugar and flour together and see what will happen.
14  Combine the eggs with a little flour and heat the mixture gently.
15  Rice flour makes the cake less likely to crumble.