Gourd used in a sentence

Gourd in a sentence as a noun

My cure is to shake a dried gourd over the patient until he gets better.

My cure is to shake a dried gourd over the patient until he's all better.

My cure is to shake a dried gourd over the cold sufferer until he gets better.

The traditional way of brewing it, in a gourd with boiling water is fine.

His treatment is to shake a dried gourd over the cold sufferer until the patient gets better.

>If I shake a dried gourd over a cold sufferer and he gets better, I can claim to have been the cause of the recovery.

DDG, however, having no clue who I am, gives me 8 results about the gourd before finally, below the fold mind you, giving me Cucumber BDD.

Is that science?Much of modern psychological research is on a par with shaking a dried gourd over a cold sufferer and calling the outcome significant.

That statement, taken literally, is provably false, as sooner or later somebody will die even if you're shaking a dried gourd over his body.

Somehow I managed amazing productivity yet was largely high out of my gourd with Skinny Puppy blasting in the background almost constantly.

If I type cucumber in google, it knows since I'm always search technical information I probably mean Cucumber BDD and it gives it to me as the second result right after the wikipedia article about the gourd, that's what I expect.

If you do have a randomly assigned group of people who get gourd-shook and a randomly assigned group of people who do not, and those who do recover significantly faster than the those who do not, and you have no idea how gourd-shaking might cause that... maybe it's still incorrect to say "the study showed gourd-shaking effective in treating the cold" but that's not intuitively obvious - explain why.