INGREDIENT in a Sentence

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The US and Europe are both moving to low sulphur fuels for emissions reasons, but it is a beneficial ingredient for the engine.

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 Meanings and Examples of INGREDIENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ingredient
 n.  element in a mixture or compound
Classic Sentence:
1  They have been an essential ingredient of children's reading ever since.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED
2  I now felt that an elderly lady was no bad ingredient in the business I had on hand.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Anna meantime went back to her boudoir, took a wine glass and dropped into it several drops of a medicine, of which the principal ingredient was morphine.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 24
4  He paused, flushed by his diatribe, and fixing on her a look in which resentment was the ingredient she least disliked.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
5  He was a mournful dyspeptic, intent on finding out the deleterious ingredients of every dish and diverted from this care only by the sound of his wife's voice.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  Life shorn of either feeling appeared to him a diminished thing; and nowhere was the blending of the two ingredients so essential as in the character of a pretty woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  He had even invented some, to which he had given fantastic names, and for whose manufacture he required diverse ingredients that it devolved upon Edna to procure for him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
8  These two ingredients are mixed in equal proportions, and formed into pills.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
9  At the other ingredients I could make no guess.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  Dioxin was the ingredient in Agent Orange, used to defoliate Vietnam.
2  Coconut is a basic ingredient for many curries.
3  Investment in new product development is an essential ingredient of corporate success.
4  Friendship is an essential ingredient in the making of a healthful, rewarding life.
5  Water, the project's key ingredient, will come from the massive artificial lake created by the Aswan High Dam.
6  The US and Europe are both moving to low sulphur fuels for emissions reasons, but it is a beneficial ingredient for the engine.
7  They did not know that the quicker a fresh water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open-air sleeping, open-air exercise, bathing, and a large ingredient of hunger make, too.
8  Add all the remaining ingredients and bring to the boil.
9  Pasta's basic ingredients are flour and water, sometimes with the addition of eggs or oil.
10  Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
11  The exact ingredients of Coca Cola are a trade secret.
12  The ingredients of Coca - Cola are a trade secret.
13  We can fuse the various ingredients into glass.
14  Check the list of ingredients on the side of the package.
15  Some toothpastes are specially made to help keep your gums healthy, as they contain ingredients which fight bacteria.