CRUMB in a Sentence

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Candish, with his curved brush had swept the crumbs; had spared the petals and finally left the family to dessert.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRUMB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
crumb
 n.  small fragment or piece, especially, a small piece of bread or other food
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Eyes fed on her as fish rise to a crumb of bread on the water.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  She had nothing to give them--not a crumb of bread.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
3  Like a fish rising to a crumb of biscuit, Bartholomew snapped at the paper.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
4  He had picked up every crumb that had been left from his former meals, and was beginning to eat the matting which covered the floor of his cell.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 116. The Pardon.
5  I thanked him for his friendship and caution, and our discourse proceeded in a low tone, while I toasted the Aged's sausage and he buttered the crumb of the Aged's roll.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLV
6  A polite tumult broke out under the trees as the guests arose, shaking crumbs from laps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Thanks for the crumbs from your table, Mrs. Dives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  Most of the crumbs drop on the red plush of the seat, and the woman sighs and tries to brush them away, but they leap up impishly and fall back on the plush.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  The oldest boy takes a mouth-organ out of his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays "Marching through Georgia" till every head in the car begins to ache.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Then she turned wearily to Kennicott in a house filled with quiet and crumbs and shreds of Chinese costumes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  But she died between summers; then Robert posed as an inconsolable, prostrating himself at the feet of Madame Ratignolle for whatever crumbs of sympathy and comfort she might be pleased to vouchsafe.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
12  You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle: 'crumbs would all wash off in the sea.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
13  Hansel, however little by little, threw all the crumbs on the path.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
14  When the moon came they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
15  Candish, with his curved brush had swept the crumbs; had spared the petals and finally left the family to dessert.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
Example Sentence:
1  She swept up extremely carefully and no crumb was left any more.
2  A robin was pecking at crumbs on the ground.