LEMON in a Sentence

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For LEMON, below is one of 26 sentences:
The boys wore shoe-packs, blue flannel shirts with enormous pearl buttons, and mackinaws of crimson, lemon yellow, and foxy brown.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEMON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lemon
 n.  a yellow, oval citrus fruit with thick skin and fragrant, acidic juice
Classic Sentence:
1  In spite of her choked-back tears, Scarlett thrilled to the never- failing magic of her mother's touch, to the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet that came from her rustling silk dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  There entered with her the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet, which seemed always to creep from the folds of her dresses, a fragrance that was always linked in Scarlett's mind with her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  She waited while he cut the lemon and dropped a thin disk into her cup.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  The news-butcher comes through selling chocolate bars and lemon drops.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  The boys wore shoe-packs, blue flannel shirts with enormous pearl buttons, and mackinaws of crimson, lemon yellow, and foxy brown.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  She visioned the fire-box: flames turned to lemon and metallic gold as the coal-dust sifted over them; thin twisty flutters of purple, ghost flames which gave no light, slipping up between the dark banked coals.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  Further away still, vegetable gardens abounded, with frequent small plantations of orange or lemon trees intervening.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Some one had gathered orange and lemon branches, and with these fashioned graceful festoons between.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Together we scrutinized the twelve lemon cakes from the delicatessen shop.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  Here's a cigar, and the doctor has a prescription containing hot water and a lemon, which is good medicine on a night like this.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
11  The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  To divert his thoughts from this melancholy subject, I informed Mr. Micawber that I relied upon him for a bowl of punch, and led him to the lemons.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
14  Here Mr. Micawber provokingly left off; and began to peel the lemons that had been under my directions set before him, together with all the other appliances he used in making punch.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
Example Sentence:
1  We'd better add in some lemon juice before mixing the flour with sugar.
2  Add a few drops of lemon juice.
3  Add in the lemon after mixing the flour and sugar.
4  When I cut the lemon, juice squirted in my eye.
5  Garnish the fish with wedges of lemon.
6  The aroma is distinctive, but in the end, it's a lemon.
7  Top with pan drippings and garnish with a drizzle of good olive oil and a lemon wedge.
8  Please help me to cut off the rind of lemon.
9  I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade.
10  If life deals you lemons, make lemonade.
11  Two lemons stand beside the entrance.
12  Store lemons in a cool dry place.