SPICE in a Sentence

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For SPICE, below is one of 31 sentences:
For those who have only ground spices, a coffee filter and a staple is all it takes to make a little spice bag to steep in the cider.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPICE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spice
 n.  any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food
 v.  add herbs or spices to
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  He thought things over, and, as he did so, a certain spice of reason appeared in his reflections.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
2  Only in Chichikov was a spice of animation visible.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
3  I know and understand what a spice that would add to the pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
4  The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
5  I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
6  One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Lemme sell you some other spices.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  They dined like lords; they filled their bellies like Indian ships all day loading with spices.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
9  All this ingenious mixture was ground up and flavored with spices to make it taste like something.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  I hate tea and silk and spices, and every sort of rubbish his old ships bring, and I don't care how soon they go to the bottom when I own them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
11  "I think I shall trade," said he, leaning back in his chair, "to the East Indies, for silks, shawls, spices, dyes, drugs, and precious woods."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
12  At length down he came, with an unstable step and a strong flavour of wine and spices about his person.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  The warm air seemed laden with spices.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
14  There is our wine in bottles, and our wine in casks; the beer, the oil, and the spices, the bacon, and sausages.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
15  The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
Example Sentence:
1  Travel adds spice to your life.
2  Variety is the spice of life.
3  To add spice to the debate, they disagreed about method and ideology.
4  Her publisher wants her to spice up her stories with sex.
5  For those who have only ground spices, a coffee filter and a staple is all it takes to make a little spice bag to steep in the cider.
6  Please add more spices to the cake.
7  He planned to grind the spices in a mortar.
8  These spices were first brought to Italy from the East in medieval times.
9  His conversation is spiced with humor.
10  These small spiced cakes are a peculiarity of the region.