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"Fig" in a Sentence (24 examples)
Jesus said, "You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree."
I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.
He doesn't give a fig about money.
It's too bad the college dining hall doesn't have fig cookies.
I don't care a fig about it!
I don't give a fig about my CV.
My chest had become softer than the fig tree's fruit and my heart had become more fragile than the fig tree's leaves.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
I don't give a fig.
The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell.
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And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
About Rebecca and Jos he did not care a fig.
J. senses the entente between Eva and me and doesn't like it one fig.
figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins
“You may flog, and welcome, master,” said he, “if you'll give me a fig o' tibbacky.”
This was followed by his presenting his sable acquaintance with a fig of tobacco, whereupon, instead of thanking the donor in the usual way, the black signified his gratitude by throwing a spear at twenty or thirty yards' distance.
When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
For filling figged soaps silicate of potash is best adapted, as soda prevents in a measure the proper crystallization. [...] Artificially figged soap [...makes] a very close imitation of the naturally figged soap.
Figging is usually considered to indicate a good quality of soft soap, but such is really not the case. A first-class soft soap can be made which will not fig, while, on the other hand, a poor soap can be produced which will fig.
In the cold soaps, the water soluble color is added in liquid form after saponification has started. In figged soaps, the color is crutched in after saponification is completed.
Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man.
He must be "figged." Figging consists in pushing a piece of crushed ginger into the return of the wretched creature — a practice which is now illegal, and of which information should be given to the R.S.P.C.A. whenever detected.
“Is something amiss with the horse, Parr?” His gaze left the horse for a second as he glanced at Grace. “Yes, the horse has been figged. Now I just need to figure out who the culprit is.”
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