The Ultra Handy Japanese and English Example Sentence Finder
Enter an English word or Japanese characters to find example Japanese and English sentences
Example sentences including '玉'
Heads Up
These sentences are mainly from the
Tanaka Corpus and Tatoeaba project.
Read more
Click on the speaker icons to hear the Japanese spoken.
Text to speech functionality by Responsive Voice
When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.
A quick temper is the only defect in her character.
彼女は気が短いのが玉にきずだ。
That's what we call an "otoshidama".
それはいわゆる「お年玉」でした。
I don't like the taste of onions.
私は玉ねぎの味が嫌いだ。
The baby tangled the ball of yarn.
赤ん坊が毛糸の玉をもつれさせた。
What's more she went and ordered a top up of noodles twice.
しかもこの女、2回も替玉しやがった。
I gave her some candy.
私は彼女にアメ玉を出してあげた。
Her dress is blue with white polka dots.
彼女のドレスは青い地に白の水玉模様がある。
I want to eat a fried egg and croissant.
目玉焼きとクロワッサンが食べたいです。
Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap-bubble.
私たちの恋は、しゃぼん玉のようにはかなかった。
The police followed a red herring while they let the true criminal escape.
警察が追っていたのは替え玉で、その間に真犯人を逃してしまった。
The boss said this group is a real mixed bag. I wonder if he places me with the wheat or the chaff.
ボスには玉石混交のグループとは言われたけれど、俺は玉かな、それとも石なのかな。
The children are blowing bubbles.
子供たちがシャボン玉を吹いている。
The feathered balls you hit with a battledore are the seeds of a large tree called 'soapberry'.
羽子板で突く羽の玉は「むくろじ」という大木の種です。
Fried eggs, sunny-side up, easy please.
軽く目玉焼きにでもしてください。
Jeweler! Locksmith!
玉屋!鍵屋!
Tears came into my eyes when I was chopping onions.
玉ねぎを切っていたら涙が出てきた。
My hamster has a swollen testicle on one side.
ハムスターの金玉が片方肥大しています。
The prime minister's answer was equivocal.
首相の答弁は玉虫色だった。
It would only take 100 or 500 yen coins, so I search for change but don't find any.
100円玉か500円玉しか使えないので私は小銭を探したが見当たらない。
In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.