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lime

[lahym] / laɪm /






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Items like honey chicken and cilantro lime sauce proved to be popular.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Inspired by traditional Indian cooking and Southeast Asian flavors, this Food52 recipe bathes and simmers sautéed heads of romaine in a delicious mixture of gingery coconut milk, fresh lime juice and fish sauce.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Or skip the coffee and steep cinnamon stalks in hot water with lime.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

On the menu, honey-glazed lime chicken, roast sea bass, caramelised leek penne and an outrageously moreish passion fruit meringue.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2026

Her bridesmaids wore dresses in lemon and lime colors.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

I was addicted to reading the food scenes—the Christmas feast that the March girls bring to the Hummels, the illicit pickled limes Amy sucks on at school.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 2026

She shows me ripening limes and lemons inside her allotment greenhouse.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2025

My wife and I grow the basics — massive Bearss lemons, Persian and Mexican limes, a kumquat bush that right now is so brimming with thumb-size orange jewels that it looks like a traffic cone.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 18, 2024

Nearby trees offer dragonfruit and limes, and there's even a smattering of papaya plants.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2024

He closed the door, sat down beside Rab, and began slicing lemons, oranges, and limes.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The previous owners — an army general and his wife, a journalist — paneled the main room in rustic limed wood with scalloped trim.

From New York Times Mar. 20, 2024

Indeed, of the 180 or so tombs that his team examined at the cemetery, this was the only one that had been limed.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2023

Lightness and informality were crucial to achieving the desired open-arms effect, so the living room’s dusky paneling was stripped and limed to give it an earthier blanched appearance.

From Architectural Digest Sep. 8, 2015

Against one wall was a pile of limed and salted hides, still covered in hair.

From The Guardian Dec. 13, 2012

The other glanced hastily around, as though he hoped to find assistance near, and Chumru muttered to his master: “Have a care, sahib, else we may hop on to a limed twig.”

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

But as CO2 continues to rise and geoengineering a climate solution grows more tempting, ocean liming has a key advantage over other geoengineering proposals, such as schemes to release sunlight-reflecting particles in the atmosphere.

From Science Magazine Dec. 15, 2022

The carbonates and oxides in the ash are valuable liming agents that can raise pH and help neutralize acidic soils.

From Seattle Times Nov. 30, 2021

They survived foul trouble; Melo Trimble fouled out with 1:03 remaining, and Robert Carter Jr. and Diamond Stone each finished with four fouls, liming them to 22 minutes apiece.

From Washington Post Mar. 18, 2016

But, he added, “As long as we are talking about liming starts now and not in the regular season I’m fine with it.”

From Washington Times Feb. 20, 2015

Pennant gives an account of how to take Small birds by liming twigs around a stuffed or tethered live owl.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu




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