KID in a Sentence

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For KID, below is one of 162 sentences:
As the gloves were white kid gloves, and as the post-office was widened to its utmost extent, I now began to have my strong suspicions.

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 Meanings and Examples of KID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kid
 n.  soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat
 v.  be silly or tease one another
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears
2  She took the kid out, and it told her that the wolf had come and had eaten all the others.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
3  At length in her grief she went out, and the youngest kid ran with her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS
4  Meanwhile his comrades had prepared the repast, had got some water from a spring, spread out the fruit and bread, and cooked the kid.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
5  They were hungry, and the smell of the roasted kid was very savory, and your tars are not very ceremonious.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
6  The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
7  The second visit was a long one, and when he returned the kid was roasted and the repast ready.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
8  They let on that if they'd waited two hours more the kid would have developed peritonitis, and God knows what all; and then they collected a nice fat hundred and fifty dollars.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Carol was her attendant, and as the wedding was at the Episcopal Church, all the women wore new kid slippers and long white kid gloves, and looked refined.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  I've been rushing from picture to picture, like a kid let loose in an art gallery for the first time.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  The gutter comedy turned into high tragedy, with Nemesis in black kid gloves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  She patted her black kid gloves, picked at a thread of her faded brown skirt, and sighed, "He's a good boy, and awful affectionate if you treat him right."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  I've always loved you more than anything else in the world, you and the kid.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  As the gloves were white kid gloves, and as the post-office was widened to its utmost extent, I now began to have my strong suspicions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
Example Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
16  Tell that kid to stop making so much noise.
17  As a kid, I loved to climb trees.
18  Don't try anything on with me, kid, or you'll be sorry.
19  He used to kid me about being chubby.
20  She's just a crazy mixed-up kid.
21  As a kid he'd never share his toys.
22  He's a bright kid and eager to learn.
23  Give the kid a break.
24  The kid was playing with his ball.
25  It's not always easy being the new kid on the block.
26  Don't kid yourself he'll ever change.
27  She'd always loved animals since she was a little kid.
28  I tried to kid myself everything was normal.
29  I can't afford to send my kid to private school.
30  It's lousy to be the new kid.