RIM in a Sentence

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For RIM, below is one of 29 sentences:
Men were supporting him in their arms and offering him a glass of water, but his trembling, swollen lips could not grasp its rim.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rim
 n.  border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  Slowly the rim of the rainy vapours caught fire and burnt away, and a pure moon swung into the blue.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  A red sun stood over the grey rim of the fields, behind trees that looked black and brittle.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  The sun was now below the horizon and the red glow at the rim of the world faded into pink.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush like wine.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
7  The sky was dark blue, with crystalline, turquoise rim.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  Then he clambered up to the rim of the hollow, and crawled about among the ferns and bushes.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
9  The flying spear lights where the armour rises high above the shoulder, and, forcing a way through the shield's rim, ceased not till it drew blood from mighty Turnus.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
10  Carrying grim death with it, the spear flies in fashion of some dark whirlwind, anopens the rim of the corslet and the utmost circles of the sevenfold shield.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
11  It is a mixing bowl by Vulcan's own hand, of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
12  After the rain it was too wet to go for a walk; besides, the storm clouds still hung about the horizon, and gathered here and there, black and thundery, on the rim of the sky.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
13  Ignatius Gallaher in the act of drinking closed one eye expressively over the rim of his glass.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
14  Men were supporting him in their arms and offering him a glass of water, but his trembling, swollen lips could not grasp its rim.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVII
15  Her blurred old eyes were bloodshot and red rimmed, and misery cried out in every line of her mountainous figure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
Example Sentence:
1  Coffee slopped over the rim of her cup.
2  The rim of the cup was chipped and broken.
3  The water was even with the rim of the basin.
4  He ran his finger around the rim of the mug.
5  He looked at them over the rim of his glass.
6  She put a flower on the rim of the hat.
7  The best cooking utensil is the Dutch oven, the real ones that have legs and a rim around the lid to hold coals.
8  Wild flowers and grasses rimmed the little pond.