STAPLE in a Sentence

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For STAPLE, below is one of 21 sentences:
For those who have only ground spices, a coffee filter and a staple is all it takes to make a little spice bag to steep in the cider.

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 Meanings and Examples of STAPLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
staple
 n.  necessary foods or commodities; basic elements; secure or fasten; a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  She had found that staple groceries, sugar, flour, could be most cheaply purchased at Axel Egge's rustic general store.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in this business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits of the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be foolishly wasted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
3  After that no wood is used, except as a means of quick ignition to the staple fuel.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
4  I ate, drank, and was invigorated; when, to add to my good luck, the Sacristan, too totty to discharge his duty of turnkey fitly, locked the door beside the staple, so that it fell ajar.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  The staple to which my chains were fixed, was more rusted than I or the villain Abbot had supposed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  In one of these a staple and chain with a quantity of gnawed bones showed where the animal had been confined.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
7  The match went out, and so did we, and shoved in the staple again, and the door was locked as good as ever.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV.
8  He double locked it, took the key, returned to the bedroom door, removed the double staple of the bolt, and went in.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
9  The hook was soldered into the staple: a circumstance observed by me when awake, but forgotten.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in the iron staple.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
11  Tom he went to the soap-kettle and searched around, and fetched back the iron thing they lift the lid with; so he took it and prized out one of the staples.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV.
12  The nocturnal visitor, ignorant of the fact that the count had removed the staples, might now think himself at home, and pursue his purpose with full security.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
13  That he discovered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
14  He then commanded his men to row up to that side, and fastening a cable to one of the staples, ordered them to tow my chest, as they called it, toward the ship.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
15  Incensed at this preparation on the hermit's part for making good his inhospitable purpose, the knight struck the door so furiously with his foot, that posts as well as staples shook with violence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  For those who have only ground spices, a coffee filter and a staple is all it takes to make a little spice bag to steep in the cider.
2  Rice is the staple food for more than half the world's population.
3  Rice is the main staple food for more than half the world's population.
4  The Chinese also eat a type of pasta as part of their staple diet.
5  The weather forms the staple of their conversation.