lime

The lime mountaineering boots worn by an Indian climber who died in 1996 have been a grim trail marker for many climbers on their way up the world's highest peak ever since.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

She got something personal to her but declined to say what it was—except that it was neither a lemon nor a lime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

“A water with a lemon and a lime both, please, and the largest free basket of chips that you’re allowed to bring me.”

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Wearing black Swig shirts, the crew swiftly mixed drinks with bobbing limes and swirling cream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

“She can’t cut lemons and limes reliably with a knife, let alone defend her life,” Madera said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025

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

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024

But the forge was a very short distance off, and I went towards it under the sweet green limes, listening for the clink of Joe’s hammer.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

On the grey horizon yonder, is the limed bronze Statue of Mary the Virgin, rising on its sable pedestal, and looking, from this distance, like a candle in a bronze candle-stick.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

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

In Trinidad and Tobago, liming refers to being social for its own sake, and this festival will have a lounge dedicated to just that, where little visitors can relax and play games.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

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

Marling and liming are again practised, new agricultural implements and manures introduced, and the new crops more widely used.

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