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For EGG, below is one of 140 sentences:
If it had been Aladdin's palace, roc's egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.

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 Meanings and Examples of EGG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
egg
 n.  hard-shelled reproductive body produced by a bird and especially by the common domestic chicken
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
2  That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is certainly unexpected.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
3  He gave three francs a month to the old principal tenant to come and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, a fresh egg, and a penny roll.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
4  He breakfasted on this egg and roll.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
5  My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  If it had been Aladdin's palace, roc's egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
7  I sat down to my brown loaf, my egg, and my rasher of bacon, with a basin of milk besides, and made a most delicious meal.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
8  The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  In the debate as to whether there should be veal loaf or poached egg on hash, she had no chance to be heretical and oversensitive.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  And she said nothing at all when Kennicott commented, "From what Champ says, I guess Bjornstam was a bad egg, after all."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  "Why, this article," I said, pointing at it with my egg spoon as I sat down to my breakfast.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
12  It sounds like saying an egg may go as addled as it likes, so long as it keeps its shell on whole.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
13  I got past it and got one in with my stick that crushed his head like an egg.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
14  Also, it might be well to try him with an egg pie.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
15  "Try this freshly-made pie and an egg," continued Madame.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
16  The house finch is detailed including nesting information, incubation time, egg identification along with picture and description.
17  Roe is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine animals, such as shrimp and scallop.
18  An egg yolk is the part of an egg which serves as the food source for the developing embryo inside.
19  Do you want a boiled egg for breakfast?
20  Have a smell of this egg and tell me if it's bad.
21  To separate egg whites, first crack the egg gingerly.
22  Everybody knows that the butterfly emerges from the pupa, and the pupa from a quite different thing called a larva, and that from the butterfly's egg.
23  For this unfertilized egg, no one hopes any changes inside.
24  The survey also found that two-thirds of these affluent Canadians were self-made, meaning they had built up their nest egg on their own.
25  Beat the butter and sugar together and slowly add the eggs.
26  Beat up the eggs before you add the flour.
27  Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
28  Pasta's basic ingredients are flour and water, sometimes with the addition of eggs or oil.
29  He beat the eggs into the flour.
30  First put the flour in the bowl, and then beat the eggs in.