Lime

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"Lime" in a Sentence (23 examples)

And she'll never walk down Lime Street anymore.

The woman downed the gin and lime that was served in one swallow.

Those little yogurts may be guiltless, but do they really taste like key lime pie?

I am coating the wall with lime.

Have you ever coated a wall with lime?

Why are you coating this wall with lime?

It would be nice if you had a wedge of lime I could squeeze into my icewater.

Cuyuchi is standing near the lime tree.

Put the lime in the coconut.

The children are playing under the lime tree.

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Lime, which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations.

Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.

Like the lime which foolish birds are caught with.

Sellers moved on until he was actually trusted to operate the limes, the spotlights that can make or destroy an artist's act.

Then out of the blue, a spotlight much like the “limes” in a theatre, lit up what seemed like a Punch and Judy tent […] He struggled even more, when from out of the shadows and into the bright light of the limes, stepped Uncle Jolly.

If I were you, I'd lime.

URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam. HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.

The linden or lime tree is the favourite haunt of the Elves and cognate beings; and it is not safe to be near it after sunset.

But there was nothing of an ascetic's expression in her bright full eyes, as she looked before her, not consciously seeing, but absorbing into the intensity of her mood, the solemn glory of the afternoon with its long swathes of light between the far-off rows of limes, whose shadows touched each other.

WARNING: This is a lime. While it does not show explicit sex, as a lemon would, references to sexual situations abound.

Even with all the sex in Garden of EVA, I still think the main stories are better for just being the lemon-scented limes that they are.

I have no intention of writing any lemon scenes, limes are possibilities but unlikely and if they occur they will be few in number.

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