TART in a Sentence

tart

 n.  a species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie

1  Scarlett had not intended to do any cotton picking herself, even after Grandma Fontaine's tart remark.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

2  The old irritation and antagonism which he roused in her was hot in her heart and she yearned to speak tart words.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

3  He wondered why she sounded tart.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI

4  Everything went happily at home too; but at lunch Grisha began whistling, and, what was worse, was disobedient to the English governess, and was forbidden to have any tart.

Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8

5  They burst out laughing, and, with their mouths full of tart, they began wiping their smiling lips with their hands, and smearing their radiant faces all over with tears and jam.

Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8

6  I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III

7  Smoke became tart on the roof of her mouth.

Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12

8  One night, man," he said, "I was going along Dame Street and I spotted a fine tart under Waterhouse's clock and said good-night, you know.

Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS

9  "I'm quite all right," she said tartly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

10  "It's quite ungallant of you not to think that I might get hurt too," she said tartly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX

11  "Come off your high horse, Miss," said the old lady tartly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL

12  Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN

13  She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII

14  whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.

1  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate.

2  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.

3  Spicy-sweet candied ginger is a nice match for the tart, and sometimes bitter, grapefruit juice.

4  I'm hopeful and confident that the graduation ceremony will really be a completely new tart.

5  In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it.