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"Lard" in a Sentence (19 examples)
As a teenager, Tom used to eat bread and lard.
Bacon, lard, butter, cream, margarine and oil are all very fatty foods.
Bacon, lard, butter, cream, margarine, and oil are very greasy ingredients.
Lard from the supermarket also of course works wonderfully.
Clarified butter, vegetable oils, bacon drippings or lard are commonly used fats.
Tom wanted some lard, not butter.
Jude had one day seen him selling a pot of coloured lard to an old woman as a certain cure for a bad leg, the woman arranging to pay a guinea, in instalments of a shilling a fortnight, for the precious salve, which, according to the physician, could only be obtained from a particular animal which grazed on Mount Sinai, and was to be captured only at great risk to life and limb.
The dried flowers, finely powdered and mixed with oil or lard make a useful ointment for acute hemorrhoids.
The latest national figures show a 30-percent obesity rate among white kids. The figure is five points higher for blacks and eight points higher for Mexican-Americans. Time notes that few blacks, proportionally, live in neighborhoods with well-stocked grocery stores; instead, little corner stores peddle sweets and soft drinks and salty snacks. And fattening foods like tamales and refried beans, cooked in lard, are staples of the Mexican-American diet.
Lard mixed with crushed and strained garlic has been used as an erotic ointment.
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My wonderful partner is fond of pointing out that he and I have done the Covid crisis on easy mode: we have no children, no caring responsibilities, […] we have a fabulous community of people at our local fitness studio to keep the lockdown lard at bay and the cats love joining us for afternoon naps.
In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.
The first notice came from — of course — a Trump tweet, after his meeting with Barr on the question of voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election. Barr made a point of noting the topic in his resignation letter, which was larded with slavish praise for the president's accomplishments in the face of what Barr called "relentless, implacable resistance."
[The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.
Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
Larded with sweet flowers; Which bewept to the grave
Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.
Ultimately, the plans were rejected by Senate leadership, Cruz told reporters, after he and a number of others objected. "That proposal did not carry the day," Cruz said. "Those $350bn in tax increases are not in the bill ... and larding the bill up with new tax increases would have been going the wrong direction."
Volkswagen avoided the fins and other frills with which U.S. manufacturers larded their vehicles. Instead, the company and its advertising agency, Doyle Dane Bernbach, promoted "our philosophy of a car that doesn't change for the reason of change, only for the benefit of the consumer," Mr. Hahn said at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011.
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