Sentence examples for saucer from inspiring English sources

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saucer

noun

A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.

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Mother immediately returned with a little saucer of hot sweet tea and within moments the little fellow was as good as new.

He spooned a morsel of paste or greenish jam about as large as a thumb from a crystal vase, and placed it next to the silver spoon on each saucer.

Apple is busy building a flying saucer in Cupertino, a precision-engineered doughnut designed by Norman Foster that is being constructed with the same level of accuracy as one of its products – and is already $2bn over its $3bn budget as a result.

In 1989 a giant flying saucer stalled in the sky over Johannesburg and has been hanging there ever since; its occupants, a motley herd of bandy-legged crustaceans, have been crammed into one of the townships once reserved for blacks.

Indeed, British Rail took out a patent on a flying saucer.

THE Senate, so George Washington is reputed to have told Thomas Jefferson, is a saucer into which legislation is poured to cool it down.

Like other recent attempts at urban shock-therapy, this daintily named, yet bluntly modernist, revival of Alexandria's famed ancient library sets out to provoke controversy.Detractors say the building, scheduled to open later this year, looks like a flying saucer crashed on the shores of Africa.

Their flying machine looks like a small flying saucer with four rotor blades on stubby arms.

On July 2nd avid watchers of the skies celebrate World UFO day the anniversary of the supposed crash of a flying saucer near Roswell in 1947.

In the 1921 "Paradise Lost", for example, the Adam and Eve figures, with their troll-like proportions and bright blue saucer eyes, are both perplexed and perplexing.

"We pour House legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it".

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