Example sentences for: lime

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

  • Powerade's Lemon Lime smells so strongly like bathroom cleaner you think you're going to burn your nose inhaling it, and it tastes the way I'd imagine bathroom cleaner would, too.

  • (I bet, though, that their new "Fierce" line--Fierce Melon, Fierce Lime, etc.--which has stronger flavors, is meant to compete with Powerade.)

  • Whether sludges used for mining reclamation in Osceola Mills were lime stabilised, however, was disputed.

  • As sludges dry in the field, lime and other irritant chemicals become concentrated and, therefore, may be more irritating upon dermal contact and inhalation.

  • Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.


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