MILK in a Sentence

Learn MILK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

187 example sentences for MILK, such as:

1. Give my share of the milk to Dilcey.
2. Turn off the gas when the milk boils.
3. A little milk dribbled onto the floor.
4. I drink a glass of milk every morning.
5. Heat the milk until it is just lukewarm.

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 Meanings and Examples of MILK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
milk
 n.  the white liquid produced by cows and used as food by human beings
Classic Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
1  She poured out her tea, added a great deal of milk to it, helped herself largely to pie and pickles, and made the familiar gesture of adjusting her false teeth before she began to eat.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  They went back to the kitchen, and he fetched the coal and kindlings and cleared out the stove for her, while she brought in the milk and the cold remains of the meat-pie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  She sat silent, intent on nothing, while the baby, already glutted with milk, whimpered because he had lost the friendly nipple.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  There were apples, yams, peanuts and milk on the table at Tara but never enough of even this primitive fare.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Give my share of the milk to Dilcey.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  On other days a small amount of milk, hickory nuts, roasted acorns and yams.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  She ordered the calf killed, because he drank so much of the precious milk, and that night everyone ate so much fresh veal all of them were ill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  There had been nothing to eat except milk since breakfast, for the yams were exhausted and Pork's snares and fishlines had yielded nothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  He had a torn jacket, muffler of a blue like skimmed milk.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  The streets do not run with milk; nor in the spring-time do they pave them with fresh eggs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
11  When by chance these precious parts in a nursing whale are cut by the hunter's lance, the mother's pouring milk and blood rivallingly discolour the sea for rods.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
12  The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
13  In merchantmen, oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of queens.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.
14  I had heard our neighbours laughing when they told how Peter always had to go home at night to milk his cow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
15  Other bachelor homesteaders used canned milk, to save trouble.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
16  A little milk dribbled onto the floor.
17  Blend a little milk with the custard powder to form a paste.
18  Turn off the gas when the milk boils.
19  Turn off the gas; the milk is boiling over.
20  I drink a glass of milk every morning.
21  We washed some bread down with a glass of milk for breakfast.
22  You had better rinse the sandwich down with a glass of milk.
23  Take the milk off the heat before it boils over.
24  Heat the milk until it is just lukewarm.
25  Many microwaves heat unevenly, leading to hot spots in the milk.
26  Just before the milk comes to the boil, turn down the heat.
27  He stove the condensed milk from a hole on the tin.
28  A few people tried to milk the insurance companies.
29  Someone allergic to milk is likely to react to cheese.
30  Just a minute,I will hot up your milk soon.