PARCHMENT in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for PARCHMENT, such as:
1. He'd been ill for a long time, and his skin was like parchment.
2. They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
3. The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.
4. Near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
5. Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 1 week.
2. They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
3. The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.
4. Near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
5. Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 1 week.
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Meanings and Examples of PARCHMENT
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parchment
n. skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on
n. a superior paper resembling sheepskin
Classic Sentence:
1 What's more to the point, with the Will in it; safe and sound; wrapped in parchment.
2 I'll show you; engrossed on parchment; enough I'll warrant you to keep us handsomely, for what's to run of our time, as husband and wife.
3 The old gentleman with the spectacles gradually dozed off, over the little bit of parchment; and there was a short pause, after Oliver had been stationed by Mr. Bumble in front of the desk.
4 'We refuse to sanction these indentures,' said the old gentleman: tossing aside the piece of parchment as he spoke.
5 Those of the dyed barbarians who had chosen the cultivable tracts were, in comparison with those who had left their marks here, as writers on paper beside writers on parchment.
6 They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
7 She had shrunk all up with her rheumatism since Jurgis had seen her last, and her yellow parchment face stared up at him from a little above the level of the doorknob.
8 Haley produced, from a well-worn valise, a parchment, which, after looking over it a moment, he handed to Mr. Shelby, who took it with a gesture of suppressed eagerness.
9 By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse from the Jewry of the Ghetto.
10 The cardinal approached the table, and without sitting down, wrote a few lines upon a parchment of which two-thirds were already filled, and affixed his seal.
11 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.
Example Sentence:
1 Near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
2 Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 1 week.
3 The parchment, known as a palimpsest, contains the only known copies of some of Archimedes' works.
4 He'd been ill for a long time, and his skin was like parchment.