SAUSAGE in a Sentence

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For SAUSAGE, below is one of 39 sentences:
They therefore drew lots, and it fell to the sausage to bring in the wood, to the mouse to cook, and to the bird to fetch the water.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAUSAGE
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sausage
 n.  a thin, tube-like case containing meat that has been cut into very small pieces and mixed with spices
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Vell, I t'ink about vot ve alwis eat, maybe corn beef and cabbage and sausage, und so weiter.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  On Sundays she gave us as much chicken as we could eat, and on other days we had ham or bacon or sausage meat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
3  Here came the entrails, to be scraped and washed clean for sausage casings; men and women worked here in the midst of a sickening stench, which caused the visitors to hasten by, gasping.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  The men and women who worked in this department were precisely the color of the "fresh country sausage" they made.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  Thus one might stand and see appear, miraculously born from the machine, a wriggling snake of sausage of incredible length.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  For it was the custom, as they found, whenever meat was so spoiled that it could not be used for anything else, either to can it or else to chop it up into sausage.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  Mother hasn't any work either, because the sausage department is shut down; and she goes and begs at houses with a basket, and people give her food.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  Being made of a whole sheet, that way, there was rope enough for forty pies if we'd a wanted them, and plenty left over for soup, or sausage, or anything you choose.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII.
11  Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
12  The bird's duty was to fly daily into the wood and bring in fuel; the mouse fetched the water, and the sausage saw to the cooking.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
13  Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
14  They therefore drew lots, and it fell to the sausage to bring in the wood, to the mouse to cook, and to the bird to fetch the water.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
15  But the sausage remained so long away, that they became uneasy, and the bird flew out to meet him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE
Example Sentence:
1  You're a disgrace boy! Sleeping in a cupboard, eating frozen chicken and massacring a sausage roll on bed!
2  She sliced off a piece of sausage.
3  Families tuck in to hearty meals of sausages and rye bread, and men play cards over glasses of locally brewed beer.
4  Twist the mixture into individual sausages without splitting the skins.