GLUE in a Sentence

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For GLUE, below is one of 22 sentences:
In these spots the mud was ankle deep and her slippers stuck in it as if it were glue, even coming completely off her feet.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glue
 v.  be fixed as if by sticky substance
 v.  join or attach with or as if sticky substance
Classic Sentence:
1  As soon as the sledge was loaded he meant to send Jotham back to the farm and hurry on foot into the village to buy the glue for the pickle-dish.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  He worked like ten at the unloading, and when it was over hastened on to Michael Eady's for the glue.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  They hailed Ethan with ironic compliment and offers of conviviality; but no one knew where to find the glue.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
4  The heavy hominy stuck in her throat like glue and never before had the mixture of parched corn and ground-up yams that passed for coffee been so repulsive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  In these spots the mud was ankle deep and her slippers stuck in it as if it were glue, even coming completely off her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  Scarlett, I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
7  I know it, old man; these stubbs will weld together like glue from the melted bones of murderers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
8  Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
9  Packingtown was always a center of violence; in "Whisky Point," where there were a hundred saloons and one glue factory, there was always fighting, and always more of it in hot weather.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
10  Well, glue or starch," said Gabriel, "the old gentleman had a horse by the name of Johnny.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  Apply the glue liberally to both surfaces.
2  Apply the glue evenly over both surfaces.
3  This new glue bonds a variety of surfaces in seconds.
4  Bring the broken edges of the plate together exactly where they were and then glue them carefully.
5  This glue makes a good firm bond.
6  Maybe we could glue it together somehow or other.
7  This glue is our new product and makes a firmer bond.
8  Then, to make sure the edges didn't buckle from the glue, I laid wax paper over it and put a weight on it.
9  The poster don't stick even though I drench it with glue.
10  The kids glue their eyes to the TV set, watching a cartoon.
11  The matriarch is the glue that binds the entire family together.
12  I use $7 gas-station straw special, with the cruddy band and attendant glue picked off.