GILD in a Sentence
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48 example sentences for GILD, such as:
1. The setting sun gilds the sky.
2. If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
3. He took it quickly out, but it was already quite gilded.
4. He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs.
5. A single portrait, signed by Leopold Robert, shone in its carved and gilded frame.
2. If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
3. He took it quickly out, but it was already quite gilded.
4. He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs.
5. A single portrait, signed by Leopold Robert, shone in its carved and gilded frame.
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Meanings and Examples of GILD
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gild
n. a formal association of people with similar interests
v. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1 Some one else will run and fetch Laerceus the goldsmith to gild the horns of the heifer.
2 He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
3 He drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no purpose.
4 He took it quickly out, but it was already quite gilded.
5 Soon a red streak became visible in the horizon, the waves whitened, a light played over them, and gilded their foaming crests with gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
6 A high wall surrounded the whole of the hotel, surmounted at intervals by vases filled with flowers, and broken in the centre by a large gate of gilded iron, which served as the carriage entrance.
7 A single portrait, signed by Leopold Robert, shone in its carved and gilded frame.
8 With a slight inclination of the head, Danglars signed to the count to be seated, pointing significantly to a gilded arm-chair, covered with white satin embroidered with gold.
9 "But melancholy," interrupted Master Edward, snatching the feathers out of the tail of a splendid parroquet that was screaming on its gilded perch, in order to make a plume for his hat.
10 Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances in yellow covers, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even though they be gilded like yourself.
11 Yet the Parisian world is so strange, that even all this might not have won attention had there not been connected with it a mysterious story gilded by an immense fortune.
12 Having given this vent to his ill-humor, the baron became more calm; Mademoiselle Danglars had that morning requested an interview with her father, and had fixed on the gilded drawing-room as the spot.
13 We embarked on board a galley of the country which was gilded like the great altar of St. Peter's at Rome.
14 Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast arm-chairs; she had the garden.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD
15 The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory of the morning.
Example Sentence:
1 For such a beautiful girl, to use make-up would be to gild the lily.
2 The newest Trump skyscraper is typically gaudy, covered in gilded panels that gleam in the sun.
3 If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.
4 The setting sun gilds the sky.