HAM in a Sentence

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For HAM, below is one of 46 sentences:
The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ham
 n.  meat cut from the thigh of a hog, usually smoked
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  In her large black hands was a tray upon which food smoked, two large yams covered with butter, a pile of buckwheat cakes dripping syrup, and a large slice of ham swimming in gravy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Scarlett began on the ham, because she liked ham, and forced it down.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  "Send over Pork with a wagon and you shall have half of what we've got, rice, meal, ham, some chickens," said Old Miss, giving Scarlett a sudden keen look.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  They had fried eggs for breakfast and fried ham for supper to vary the monotony of the yams, peanuts and dried apples, and on one festal occasion they even had roast chicken.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  She stalked across the littered yard and climbed into the buggy, noticing with grim satisfaction that the men were tearing at the ham and cramming bits into their mouths voraciously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  Scarlett's eyes went unwillingly to the miserable group gnawing on the ham and she thought of the sick man lying in the windy shack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  On Sundays she gave us as much chicken as we could eat, and on other days we had ham or bacon or sausage meat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
8  It was only when the whole ham was spoiled that it came into the department of Elzbieta.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  Cut up by the two-thousand-revolutions-a-minute flyers, and mixed with half a ton of other meat, no odor that ever was in a ham could make any difference.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
10  Mrs. Sands fetched bread; Mrs. Swithin fetched ham.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
11  One cut the bread; the other the ham.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
12  Grouse, ham, chickens were sliced.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
13  Boiled ham, cheese, pickled wa'nuts, if yer like.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  The four sat down, to breakfast, on the coffee, and some hot rolls and ham which the Dodger had brought home in the crown of his hat.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  Sherlock Holmes swallowed a cup of coffee, and turned his attention to the ham and eggs.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Example Sentence:
1  Max has decided that honey baked ham is better than Subway sandwich.
2  To make a ham sandwich you put a slice of ham between two slices of bread.