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Example sentences for: powder

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

Clearly, the term lawn , with its 19th-century connotation of society matrons batting a powder puff, should be deleted from the titles of all official national tennis organizations.
There are cases filled with elaborate and witty helmets from the early 17 th century, shaped like the knobby turbo seashell or with rabbit ears appended; swords designed more to impress than to kill; saddles decorated with such whimsical and hardly threatening motifs as powder puffs and cosmetic brushes.
Subjects were given a 2-month supply of dehydrated barley grass juice powder (Barleygreen) and a blend of laxative herbs and psyllium seed (Herbal Fiberblend) (AIM International, Nampa, ID), with instruction to ask for more when this supply was finished.
Without fully realizing it, all of us speak the language of guns and cannons in our everyday conversation, and many words and phrases we spark forth date back to the era of black powder and muzzleloading.
In September 1687 Venetian forces threatened Athens and one of their mortars hit the Parthenon, igniting the powder inside.