GOBLET in a Sentence
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23 example sentences for GOBLET, such as:
1. He poured some wine into the goblet.
2. The knight made his obeisance, and showed his sense of the honour by draining a huge goblet in answer to it.
3. He mounted the steps and entered the room where the maiden was sitting, with a golden goblet full of wine in front of her.
4. She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet.
5. He took the ring which she had given him off his finger, and threw it into the goblet, so that it rang as it touched the bottom.
2. The knight made his obeisance, and showed his sense of the honour by draining a huge goblet in answer to it.
3. He mounted the steps and entered the room where the maiden was sitting, with a golden goblet full of wine in front of her.
4. She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet.
5. He took the ring which she had given him off his finger, and threw it into the goblet, so that it rang as it touched the bottom.
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Meanings and Examples of GOBLET
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goblet
n. a drinking glass with a base and stem
n. a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 Beside each person of rank was placed a goblet of silver; the lower board was accommodated with large drinking horns.
2 And I," said the Templar, filling his goblet, "drink wassail to the fair Rowena; for since her namesake introduced the word into England, has never been one more worthy of such a tribute.
3 Even the unmoved Athelstane had shown symptoms of shaking off his apathy, when, calling for a huge goblet of muscadine, he quaffed it to the health of the Disinherited Knight.
4 "Fill thyself another goblet of wine," said the Jew.
5 The knight made his obeisance, and showed his sense of the honour by draining a huge goblet in answer to it.
6 Some of them, ancient and experienced courtiers, closely imitated the example of the Prince himself, raising the goblet to their lips, and again replacing it before them.
7 She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet.
8 And when Rowena's name was mentioned the noble Athelstane prayed leave to quaff a full goblet to her health, and that she might soon be the bride of his kinsman Wilfred.
9 He mounted the steps and entered the room where the maiden was sitting, with a golden goblet full of wine in front of her.
10 He took the ring which she had given him off his finger, and threw it into the goblet, so that it rang as it touched the bottom.
11 She was in a silver sheath, the calyx of a lily, her piled hair like black glass; she had the fragility and costliness of a Viennese goblet; and her eyes were intense.
12 Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush like wine.
13 Amphinomus took two loaves out of the bread-basket and brought them to him, pledging him as he did so in a golden goblet of wine.
14 On the first goblet this inscription could be read, monkey wine; on the second, lion wine; on the third, sheep wine; on the fourth, hog wine.
15 He ended; when the twy-coloured poplar of Hercules hid his shaded hair with pendulous plaited leaf, and the sacred goblet filled his hand.
Example Sentence:
1 The members of the mysterious Far Eastern cult sought to kill the British explorer because they saw him profane the sanctity of their holy goblet by using it as an ashtray. .
2 Gwen's aplomb in handling potentially embarrassing moments was legendary around the office; when one of her clients broke a piece of her best crystal, she coolly picked up her own goblet and hurled it into the fireplace.
3 He poured some wine into the goblet.