PEPPER in a Sentence

Learn PEPPER 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.

30 example sentences for PEPPER, such as:

1. It does not do to pepper beaters.
2. Season lightly with salt and pepper.
3. This might need some salt and pepper.
4. He burned his tongue with red pepper.
5. I bedashed a salad with pepper before dinner.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEPPER
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pepper
 v.  to be covered with lots of (something made up of small things); to add (something) at frequent intervals
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The girl brought him a plate of grocer's hot peas, seasoned with pepper and vinegar, a fork and his ginger beer.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
3  It does not do to pepper beaters.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
4  Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle's Story
5  It consisted of a soup of salted water, seasoned with pepper and rancid oil.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
6  In the present instance, too, this dignity is heightened by the pepper and salt colour of his head at the summit, giving token of advanced age and large experience.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
7  "Well, I hope you left some suitable excuse," said her husband, somewhat appeased, as he added a dash of cayenne pepper to the soup.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
8  Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and shallots.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
9  Athos replied, always by gestures, that that was well, and indicated to Grimaud, by pointing to a turret that resembled a pepper caster, that he was to stand as sentinel.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
10  Two mutton-chops, three potatoes, some split peas, a little flour, two ounces of butter, a pinch of salt, and all this black pepper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
11  For instance, had pepper represented the nearest article within reach, she had added pepper wholesale.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
12  In that wise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  One night soon after this, he tapped on Scarlett's door long after the house was asleep and sheepishly exhibited a leg peppered with small shot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  On cool evenings, when they tried to go walking, the gnats appeared in swarms which peppered their faces and caught in their throats.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  Her words peppered the audience as with a shower of hard little stones.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence:
1  Brush the aubergines with oil, add salt and pepper, and bake till soft.
2  I'd like to add some pepper to the bean curd.
3  I bedashed a salad with pepper before dinner.
4  This might need some salt and pepper.
5  He burned his tongue with red pepper.
6  Season lightly with salt and pepper.
7  Store the peppercorns in an airtight container and grind the pepper as you need it.
8  Add salt and pepper, presto, you have a delicious meal!
9  You can reduce the amount of heat in a chili pepper by removing the ribs and seeds.
10  They said they were peppered with shotgun pellets as they walked in the forest.
11  Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.
12  The surface of the moon is peppered with craters.
13  William H. Gross, the co-founder of the mutual fund giant Pimco who abruptly quit last month to join a much smaller mutual fund company, has in the past peppered his market commentary with upbeat and zany humor.