Example sentences for: palm

How can you use “palm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • First you can't thrash them, next you can't give them a good boot in the ribs, then no summary executions of the really impertinent ones," he did not add, nor did he emphasize his point by menacingly slapping his palm with the "Fellowship Stick," as he does not call it since it does not exist.

  • The same is true for Honey's assumptions about Buddha , which he implies is universally pronounced in AE with the vowel of boot ; about Moscow , the second syllable of which is not always rhymed in AE with cow ; about Nepal , which is pronounced identically to the British (RP) way by many AE speakers; and about Vietnam , the -nam of which, contrary to the author's information, is pronounced by many AE speakers to rhyme with dam , not palm . As for Pakistan , Americans tend to give both a sounds the same quality, whether they rhyme them with that in father or in man . On the other hand, the pronunciation of Afghanistan in Britain follows either the pattern of Pakistan , which has the a of man in the first syllable and that of father in the last, or, as in America, is heard with the a of man in both positions.

  • De angeli lib for Hebben an play banjo an get plenty fine chop an plenty palm wine.

  • The quieter resort of Bordighera is particularly proud of the palm trees along the Lungomare Argentina promenade.

  • 463 of A Treasury of the World's Great Letters , Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1940) in which he relates how he sends his native boy up a palm tree, where he “cuts off a couple of vast nuts ...”


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