HIDE in a Sentence

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For HIDE, below is one of 260 sentences:
Oh, if she'd only had the baby sooner, yesterday even, perhaps they could get an ambulance and take her away and hide her somewhere.

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 Meanings and Examples of HIDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hide
 v.  prevent from being seen or discovered
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I'm going to beat your hide off for that," cried Stuart fiercely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  As she stood, hesitant, wondering where she could hide until the ache in her breast subsided a little, a thought came to her, bringing a small ray of hope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  She felt little affection for the child, hide the fact though she might.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  But Melanie reefed up her top hoop a little higher to hide her thickening figure and the wounded invaded the brick house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Oh, if she'd only had the baby sooner, yesterday even, perhaps they could get an ambulance and take her away and hide her somewhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Wade flew sobbing to hide himself under the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Her first terrified impulse was to hide in the closet, crawl under the bed, fly down the back stairs and run screaming to the swamp, anything to escape him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  "If he bleeds across the yard, we can't hide it," she gasped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  And I managed to get into the bushes and hide and I lay there and saw our house burn and I saw the Indians scalp my brothers and sisters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  I'll have to quit swearing or Grandma will sure tan my hide.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  Melly and Carreen whispered that the soldier guest should have a share and Scarlett, backed by Suellen and Mammy, hissed to Pork to hide it quickly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  She would have turned and left him then, seeking the shelter of the house to hide herself, but she was too tired to move.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  She'd take Aunt Pitty's little seal muff and hide her bare hands in it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  She frequently did take a day off from the mill and peddle lumber and, on those days, Frank wished he could hide in the dark back room of his store and see no one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  That's your home, mumbled Scarlett, toying with a pillow and keeping her eyes down to hide dawning triumph in them as she felt the tide turning her way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  Can't help sadness, then slowly learned to hide.
17  The machine was used in a cave near the sea-shore where - it is said - pirates used to hide gold.
18  They used a front organization to hide their trade in forbidden goods.
19  I hide my storm-like love in my heart just not to give you any pressure.
20  She could not hide her dismay at the result.
21  The report was a device used to hide rather than reveal problems.
22  I could not hide from her the gravity of the situation.
23  She manufactured a false story to hide the facts.
24  But he did not hide their disagreement over Kyoto.
25  The liberals you're trying to impress simply need some thin fig leaf to grab on to and hide behind.
26  He tried to hide from his importunate creditors until his allowance arrived.
27  This old lady tried to hide her senile weakness.
28  What would really frost me about the incident is the fact that you want to hide.
29  He didn't hide his despite in the party because he believed the host cheated.
30  Pseudo-intellectuals spout obscure verbiage to hide the fact that they have nothing to say, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.