STARCH in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for STARCH, such as:

1. They were frayed in prickles of starched linen.
2. Sugar and starch are broken down in the stomach.
3. Her starched skirts crinkled as she came and went.
4. It's important to rinse the rice to remove the starch.
5. Plants produce sugars and starch to provide themselves with energy.

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 Meanings and Examples of STARCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
starch
 n.  naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, found chiefly in the seeds, fruits
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  I shall row and tramp about, so I don't want any starch to think of.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
2  I felt bad but did not fret I bear my troubles well but I do wish Hannah would put more starch in my aprons and have buckwheats every day.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIXTEEN
3  Their faces beneath their sun-bonnets were sallow and malarial- looking but shining clean and their freshly ironed calicoes glistened with starch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  Well, glue or starch," said Gabriel, "the old gentleman had a horse by the name of Johnny.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
5  Her recent graduation from a skinny pickaninny with brief skirts and stiffly wrapped braids into the dignity of a calico dress and starched white turban was an intoxicating affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Perspiration soaked through her freshly starched dress as she followed Dr. Meade about, a basin in her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  Her lavender calico dress, so freshly clean and starched that morning, was streaked with blood, dirt and sweat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  Suddenly she was in his arms, her wet cheek against the starched ruffle of his shirt, her beating hands stilled against him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  He was decorously clad in black, his linen frilly and starched, and his manner was all that custom demanded from an old friend paying a call of sympathy on one bereaved.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  Lily sat down on one of the plush and rosewood sofas, and he deposited himself in a rocking-chair draped with a starched antimacassar which scraped unpleasantly against the pink fold of skin above his collar.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
11  Window curtains of starched cheap lace revealing a pink marble table with a conch shell and a Family Bible.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  They were frayed in prickles of starched linen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  With a rustle of starched linen skirts and stiff shirt-fronts, the congregation sat down, and gave heed to the Reverend Mr. Zitterel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  Her starched skirts crinkled as she came and went.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
15  Mr Tate did not break it but dug with his hand between his thighs while his heavily starched linen creaked about his neck and wrists.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  It's important to rinse the rice to remove the starch.
2  Plants produce sugars and starch to provide themselves with energy.
3  Sugar and starch are broken down in the stomach.