Powder

//ˈpuː.dɐ//

"Powder" in a Sentence (21 examples)

You have to take this powder after each meal.

The Middle East is still called a powder keg.

ODS super alloy is produced by the mechanical alloy method following powder metallurgy.

No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them, with powder and lead - Thoughts are free!

My wife went to the powder room to freshen up.

The powder is soluble in water.

Powder is soluble in water.

Lupe grinds the piloncillo into a fine powder.

I hate chalk. It leaves powder on your hands.

In order to make this cake you need baking powder and unsalted butter.

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Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder ſmall, […]

Let them stop fretting about vegetables denied by the weather and eat chilli powder. Just explain to them that they really shouldn’t think about spiralising it, because that doesn’t work.

She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.

Tut, tut, good enough to toſſe: foode for Powder, foode for Powder: they'll fill a Pit, as well as better: tuſh man, mortall men, mortall men.

25 October 2016, Bettina Elias Siegel writing in New York Times, Should the Food Industry Sneak Vegetables Into Food? In desperation, they dried fruits and vegetables in an old food dehydrator they had, then used their coffee grinder to powder the produce...

to powder one's hair

23 March 2016, Seth Augenstein in Laboratory Equipment, FDA Proposes Ban on Powdered Surgical Gloves, Decades after Documenting Health Dangers Gloves were powdered for more than a century to allow doctors and surgeons to slip them on more easily.

A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars.

1778-1787, Frances Burney, The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed or not; but at all times she never forgets to send me away while she is powdering, with a consideration not to spoil my clothes

Ample evidence is brought forward to show that the higher incidence of chronic interstitial nephritis in Queensland is due to lead paint on the verandahs and railings of the houses, which powders easily during the long Australian summer.

Miss Gibson appeared in the empty hall, her eyes wide and shocked. The little man who had started all the trouble with his singing telegram had powdered.

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