Lid

//lɪd//

"Lid" in a Sentence (16 examples)

I cannot get the lid off.

The instant I open the lid an offensive smell greets my nose.

The lid of this box won't lift.

Please help me take this lid off.

This lid is so tight I can't open it.

This lid belongs with that jar.

Inspector, try to keep a lid on the situation until we can get more police down there.

The date of manufacture is shown on the lid.

He found it impossible to lift the lid.

She took off the lid of the box.

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“Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.

the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders

But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.

Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…].

Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me. I am the problem with my company and you are the problem with your company.

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