HEARTH in a Sentence

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122 example sentences for HEARTH, such as:

1. The embers still glowed in the hearth.
2. Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth.
3. The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm.
4. Meantime, Mr. Brocklehurst, standing on the hearth with his hands behind his back, majestically surveyed the whole school.
5. There was a large fire burning on the hearth, and one could smell from far the fragrant reek of burning cedar and sandal wood.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEARTH
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hearth
 n.  an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
 n.  home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
Classic Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1  "I planned to spend mine in new music," said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  The clock struck six and, having swept up the hearth, Beth put a pair of slippers down to warm.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
3  Hannah had left a pan of bread to rise, Meg had worked it up early, set it on the hearth for a second rising, and forgotten it.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
4  There was a large fire burning on the hearth, and one could smell from far the fragrant reek of burning cedar and sandal wood.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
5  When Alcinous heard this he took Ulysses by the hand, raised him from the hearth, and bade him take the seat of Laodamas, who had been sitting beside him, and was his favourite son.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VII
6  Fortune, however, brought me to her hearth all desolate and alone, for Jove struck my ship with his thunderbolts, and broke it up in mid-ocean.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VII
7  I swear by king Jove, by the rites of hospitality, and by that hearth of Ulysses to which I have now come, that all will surely happen as I have said it will.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIV
8  Then the other maids in the house rose and lit the fire on the hearth; Telemachus also rose and put on his clothes.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XX
9  Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  She stood at the bottom of the long room, on the hearth; for there was a fire at each end; she surveyed the two rows of girls silently and gravely.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  Meantime, Mr. Brocklehurst, standing on the hearth with his hands behind his back, majestically surveyed the whole school.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  Miss Temple told Helen Burns to be seated in a low arm-chair on one side of the hearth, and herself taking another, she called me to her side.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  We found the apartment vacant; a large fire burning silently on the marble hearth, and wax candles shining in bright solitude, amid the exquisite flowers with which the tables were adorned.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  Mr. Rochester, having quitted the Eshtons, stands on the hearth as solitary as she stands by the table: she confronts him, taking her station on the opposite side of the mantelpiece.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  Bessie sat on the hearth, nursing her last-born, and Robert and his sister played quietly in a corner.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  When having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders.
2  The embers still glowed in the hearth.