Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: stains
IPA transcription: [st'eɪnz]
Usage examples
  • Stains on dark clothing are red or brown.
  • What are these stains? Did some one hurt you?"
  • It is true that our tunic was torn and stained with brown stains which had been blood.
  • It strikes blue with solution of starch, and stains the skin and intestines yellowish-brown.
  • "Mother," whispered the boy again, laying his finger on the stains upon her breast, "see, your dress is red!
  • It is true that our tunic was torn and stained with brown stains which had been blood. We raised our right arm and we said:
  • They had in many cases some reddish discoloration, which may have been the traces of betel-nut stains: for betel-nuts abound there.
  • He looked full into Grey's face, and Grey looked full into his; and as he looked the great cicatrice seemed to open itself and to become purple with fresh blood stains.
  • "Shouldn't wonder but it was done with this!" and Thong held out, on the palm of his large hand, a slender dagger, on the otherwise bright blade of which were some dark stains.
  • At length they set the stranger damosel to wark; and whenever she began the stains came out pure and clean, but the auld wife made the knight believe it was her dochter had washed the sarks.