Sentence examples for as a mint from inspiring English sources

The Denver branch of the U.S. Mint (opened as a mint in 1906) produces about half of circulating U.S. coinage and is the nation's second largest gold depository.

And prompted from one of the most senior judges in the land a legal decision as crisp as a mint with a hole from a newly-opened pack.

"In bed and out, he was unbeatable company," Ben's inamorata, a female pilot, thinks of him, "bright as a mint silver dollar... a first-class passion ration".

In Byzantine times, Hadrian's auditorium was most likely used as a mint to smelt ingots and mint coins, they said, as evidenced by the the presence of fire pits.

"Two bam!" "Two crak!" "Four dot!" It was the sound of mah-jongg, a call that, for some New Yorkers, is as redolent of summers past as a mint julep on the veranda is for Mississippians.

Ice cream, made with milk from Maryland's South Mountain Creamery, includes such inventive flavors as crunchy PBJ and creme fraiche with strawberries, as well as a mint chip (flavored with mint leaves) and espresso.

Garnish as wished, such as with a mint leaf or a toothpick with a Hershey kiss on it.

But by one measure, the fervor for Jeremy Lin, the sensation also known as the Knicks' point guard, is as heated as ever: A mint condition rookie trading card of Lin sold for $21,580 on Thursday afternoon.

In his foraging guide "Food for Free," the British naturalist Richard Mabey suggests that garlic mustard's best culinary application is as a mint-like vinegary sauce for lamb (especially when the sheep itself has grazed on the plant).

Even if it means seeing Washington's mayor referred to as "Muriel Peepser" and depicted as a mint-green bunny, I'm heartened by this thought: People can still have too much fun to be embarrassed by spending, in some cases, three weekends in a row hunched over a box of marshmallows with a roll of masking tape and a hot glue gun.

At the same time, we were getting sent to the office for putting spicy pepper on a mint as a gift, and giving it to a supervisor.