CUCUMBER in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for CUCUMBER, such as:

1. He gave me a huge cucumber.
2. But Miss Ellen jes' as cool as a cucumber.
3. A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber.
4. Before him stood the orderly with a tray of brandy and salted cucumbers.
5. I had never heard of cooking cucumbers, but Antonia assured me they were very good.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUCUMBER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cucumber
 n.  cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
Classic Sentence:
1  These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a salad and cucumber.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 39
2  By gymnastics and careful attention to his health he had brought himself to such a point that in spite of his excess in pleasure he looked as fresh as a big glossy green Dutch cucumber.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
3  But Miss Ellen jes' as cool as a cucumber.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  The fact that she raised it nearly to the level of his lips apprised him of the circumstance that it had just been rinsed in cucumber oil.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
5  As we rode up the draw, we skirted a big melon patch, and a garden where squashes and yellow cucumbers lay about on the sod.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
6  That day the floor was covered with garden things, drying for winter; corn and beans and fat yellow cucumbers.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
7  Before we left, Peter put ripe cucumbers into a sack for Mrs. Shimerda and gave us a lard-pail full of milk to cook them in.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
8  I had never heard of cooking cucumbers, but Antonia assured me they were very good.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
9  He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
10  Before him stood the orderly with a tray of brandy and salted cucumbers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 20
11  I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
Example Sentence:
1  A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber.
2  He gave me a huge cucumber.
3  She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame, or something of the sort.