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lime

[lahym] / laɪm /






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Descendants of Michael P. Hannin, who acquired the quarry in 1931, applied for vested rights in 2018, saying they had long intended to mine and process the lime deposits there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

There are also around 16 fruit trees on the property—including orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, and lime trees—as well as a brick-enclosed vegetable garden.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

This ageworthy bottling delivers big acidity, with notes of lime zest, white blossom, tangerine and grilled lemon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The lime converts arecoline into a free base form, which makes it easier for the body to absorb.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Hey, Joey,” Skeezie says as he turns on Joe’s lava lamp and we settle in on the lime green shag carpet.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe

Suffering most are trees "we really associate with an English garden or an English landscape", she said: oaks, sycamores, birch, limes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

She started with limes, lemons and six flavor shots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

A lot of citrus, like limes, pomelos, lemons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

The leaves had to be aged, and soaked in a wash of limes and sugar water and certain rare spices from the Summer Isles.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

Time was when ordinary paper could be written on in comfort, but that which adulterated Falstaff's sack spoiled it for the purpose, and converted it into limed twigs to catch the winged pen.

From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

It is the first field demonstration of the technique, called ocean liming, that they know of.

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

The subjects of hay-making, liming and forming water meadows, we also pass; but we stop a moment at his chapter upon flax and hemp.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various




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