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How to use lid in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Lid means the top or cover of a container. Example: “It's supposed to be a surprise, so try to keep a lid on it, will you?”

Examples of lid by meaning

nounA bodyboard or bodyboarder.

  • Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.2001, realsurf.com message board
  • the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders2003 August, Kneelo Knews

nounA restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.

  • Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me.2011, Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership, page 11

More sentences with lid

  • It's supposed to be a surprise, so try to keep a lid on it, will you?From the entry keep a lid on
  • Wait for the temperature to come down to a reasonable level before touching the lid.From the entry come down to
  • Oh, put a lid on it already! I heard you the first fourteen times.From the entry put a lid on it
  • With the aid of a screwdriver, the stuck jar lid opened like magic.From the entry like magic
  • When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both.From the entry upend
  • Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.From the entry oops
  • Close the lid tightly to get a good seal.From the entry seal
  • Put the lid on the jar to keep contaminants out.From the entry contaminant
  • I'm having some trouble unscrewing the lid of this jar.From the entry unscrew
  • The lid wasn't screwed on properly.From the entry on
  • The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.From the entry exclusive
  • I got a flat tyre, then the heater broke, and then, just to put the tin lid on it, I ran out of petrol.From the entry put the tin lid on it
  • All it needs now is the operculum, a little lid that will help your kid breathe.2023, translated in 2025, Berta Páramo and translated by Marc Correa Haro, Lice: How to Survive on Humans, page 110. From the entry operculum
  • Cover with a lid and let rest overnight, or 8 to 10 hours.2022 August 30, Tara Jensen, Flour Power: The Practice and Pursuit of Baking Sourdough Bread, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry scald
  • The lids are represented as filletlike lines and are of equal thickness.2020, Faya Causey, Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum, page 162. From the entry filletlike
  • Retortable trays have a semi-rigid or rigid boy and a sealable flexible lid.2018, Dennis R. Heldman, Daryl B. Lund, Cristina Sabliov, Handbook of Food Engineering, page 1088. From the entry retortable
  • A tajine is a heavy ceramic plate covered with a conical lid of the same material.2016, “Morocco Basics”, in Morocco: Essaouira and the Atlantic Coast (Rough Guides Snapshot), London: Rough Guides, →ISBN. From the entry tajine
  • When I pulled off the lid, I found a leather bracelet inside.2015, Susan Vaught, “Three Weeks Later”, in Footer Davis Might be Probably is Crazy (A Paula Wiseman Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon &…. From the entry aventurine
  • He picked up the stroopwafel and put it on top of the coffee cup, like a lid.2015, Jake Woodhouse, Into the Night, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry stroopwafel
  • The lid on will convex the heat and you'll need that after it's been chilled.2014, Amy-Elyse Neer, The Seven Things Cookbook, page 96. From the entry convex
  • I lifted the lid off Mav’s breakfast and stole his toast.2014, Steph Nuss, Fantasized by You (Love in the City), →ISBN, page 315. From the entry peanut buttery
  • There may be ulceration and notching (ptilosis) of the lid margin (Figure 1.3).2012, Kenneth C. Chern, Michael A. Saidel, Ophthalmology Review Manual, →ISBN. From the entry ptilosis
  • A damp, auberginey waft escaped from the pot when Rosie lifted the lid.2012, Chris Smyth, Dinner at Mine. From the entry auberginey
  • The priest sprinkled a handful of token soil on to the coffin lid.2012 [1987], Rupert Thomson, Dreams of Leaving, reprint edition, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry spadeloads
  • When lids are used properly, jar seals and vacuums are excellent.2011 May 25, Abigail R. Gehring, “Proper Canning Recipes”, in The Homesteading Handbook: A Back to Basics Guide to: Growing Your Own Food…. From the entry mason jar
  • Simply screw off a bottle lid and then push the pourer into the bottle.2010, Cheryl Charming, Just Shots: A Little Book of Liquid Fun, page 1. From the entry pourer
  • Nick slapped on the lid with a wet tomato saucey squish.2010, Daniel Marks, “Vermillion”, in Trisha Telep, editor, Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love, Philadelphia, Pa.: Running Press…. From the entry tomato saucey
  • His parents flipped their lids when the two lovebugs got hitched.2009, Dee Kassabian, My Four Fathers and Other Short Stories, page 45. From the entry get hitched
  • The short screws unseated quickly and he set aside the lid.2008, T. Jefferson Parker, L.A. Outlaws: A Novel, New York: Dutton, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry unseat
  • A poorly finished trunk has an awkwardly high liftover and no useful handhold on its lid.2007 December 23, Lawrence Ulrich, “Same Small-Car Stew, Stirred and Reheated”, in The New York Times. From the entry awkwardly
  • I found a half-full plastic milk jug with no lid and not one single lemon.2007, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Preston McDaniels, Phineas L. MacGuire... Gets Slimed!: The Second Experiment. From the entry smushy
  • Gently place the flat end of the vertex distometer against his closed lid.2006, Gary S. Schwartz, The Eye Exam: A Complete Guide, SLACK, page 62. From the entry distometer
  • Make sure the lid is on and the toddler cannot reach it.2006, Susan Dignan, Lyndal Taylor, Parenting with Care, Pascal Press, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry nappy bucket
  • An infant rhinoceros sits on the floor, its eyes half closed under their translucent lids.2005 September 6, Adrian Searle, “Fairground distraction”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry big toenail
  • He stood up and gloomily opened a little silver-gilt box, its lid studded with aventurines.1998, Joris-Karl Huysmans, chapter 9, in Margaret Mauldon, transl., edited by Nicholas White, Against Nature (A rebours) (Oxford World’s…. From the entry aventurine
  • Unprying the plastic edge, she lifted off the lid and brought the open can toward her face.1997, Michael R. Phillips, A Rift in Time, page 275. From the entry unpry
  • Place in oven dish with lid, or in a frying pan. 4.1994, Pace, Pace-Maker (Pty.) Limited, page 64. From the entry frikadelle

Meaning of lid

  1. noun The top or cover of a container.
  2. noun A cap or hat.
  3. noun One ounce of cannabis.

Full definition of lid

Questions about lid in a sentence

How do you use lid in a sentence?
Lid is used as a noun and verb. For example: “It's supposed to be a surprise, so try to keep a lid on it, will you?”
What is a short sentence with lid?
“The lid wasn't screwed on properly.”
What does lid mean?
Lid means the top or cover of a container.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lid (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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