8 example sentences using lime.
Lime used in a sentence
Lime in a sentence as a noun
To be fair my map has all possible spaces filled with lime trees, so that is where the lag comes from.
What Semmelweis did differently was to use lime to wash hands.
The whole point of Pyrex was resistance to heat, which you don't get with the cheaper soda-lime glass.
If you don't host your own mail server, you are a clown-personWhere can I get a pair of size 47 shoes, a banana-yellow suit, and a lime-green wig?
Lime in a sentence as a verb
His explanation was good enough -- there WAS something on the hands of the doctors that was small enough and not visible that lime was able to destroy.
Semmelweis' contention was that "cadaveric particles" were making their way into patients, and that those particles could only be removed by lime.
>It was thus difficult for Semmelweis to make a "scientific" case for why the lime workedAren't you supposed to regard empiricism above all else in science?
Okay, okay, so glass is really a class of materials with widely varying strengths and some glasses like soda-lime are not very strong -- but steel is also a class of materials and there is a considerable overlap with how strong you can make glasses and how strong you can make steels.
Lime definitions
a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds
See also: birdlime
any of various related trees bearing limes
any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber
the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
spread birdlime on branches to catch birds
See also: birdlime
cover with lime so as to induce growth; "lime the lawn"