GEESE in a Sentence

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For GEESE, below is one of 26 sentences:
So she asked what she should use for new heads, since the old ones were lost, and all the geese opened their hundred mouths and screamed.

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1  Prisoners don't have geese running around the donjon-keep to pull pens out of, you muggins.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
2  Now the name of this lad, that the real bride was to help in watching the king's geese, was Curdken.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
3  Then they went out of the city, and drove the geese on.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
4  Then he was very angry and sulky, and would not speak to her at all; but they watched the geese until it grew dark in the evening, and then drove them homewards.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
5  So they watched the geese till it grew dark.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE GOOSE-GIRL
6  "Little goose girl, who kept a hundred fat geese in the field," said Amy, when Sallie's invention gave out.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
7  So she asked what she should use for new heads, since the old ones were lost, and all the geese opened their hundred mouths and screamed.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
8  An impromptu circus, fox and geese, and an amicable game of croquet finished the afternoon.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
9  Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
10  My mamenka have nice bed, with pillows from our own geese in Bohemie.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
11  Ducks and geese ran quacking across my path.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
12  'We'll only have a lunch at noon,' Antonia said, and cook the geese for supper, when our papa will be here.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
13  When the boys came in from milking and feeding, the long table was laid, and two brown geese, stuffed with apples, were put down sizzling before Antonia.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
14  However, this was only a light skirmishing manoeuvre, intended to create a little disorder, and the men easily drove the geese off with their sticks.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
15  A cow, three sheep, and two geese were killed, and nearly everyone was wounded.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
Example Sentence:
1  When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
2  When the fox preacheth, then beware your geese.
3  Chickens and geese roam freely in the back yard.
4  Every man thinks his own geese swans.
5  Wild geese herd to the south in autumn every year.
6  Mature migrating ducks and geese are very smart and will flare from a black shotgun.