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Example sentences for "boil them"

  • Boil them tender in a little veal broth; then chop and add to them some fresh butter, the liquor, a grated nutmeg, the juice of half a lemon, a little cayenne pepper and salt.

  • BOIL them, wipe them dry, and when they are to be served up pour over them white oyster sauce.

  • Now add sufficient water to enable you to boil them, and let the water boil away till very little is left.

  • The best method of having potatoes, if we wish to study economy, is to boil them in their jackets, as it is generally admitted that the most nourishing part is that which lies nearest to the skin.

  • Boil them in just water enough, covered close, two or three hours.

  • Weigh two pounds of good potatoes, after they are pared; boil them, and when done, dry them; then pound them well in the kettle with a pestle.

  • Boil them in water enough to cover them, and when they become very soft, put the whole into a coarse linen bag, and suspend it between two chairs, with a pan under it, and leave it until it ceases to drip.

  • Lay them in plenty of boiling water, with a little vinegar; boil them steadily, keeping them well covered with water for about one and one-half to two hours for small beets and two to three and one-half hours for large ones.

  • Break half a pound of macaroni into short pieces, boil them in salted water until fairly tender, then drain.

  • Boil them in salt water--the water must boil hard before you put them in.

  • Of all the varieties, the long purple is decidedly the best.

  • Cover tightly, and keep the jar surrounded with hot, but not boiling water.

  • Boil them first, then roll them in flour and fry them in olive-oil or butter.

  • The Partridges being clean'd and trussed, boil them tender, and make the following Sauce for them.

  • You may either bake the Fronteniac Grapes with Sugar, or boil them to make a Syrup of their Juice, about a Quart of which Syrup will be enough to put to five Quarts of the Raisin Wine.

  • Boil them as others, and cut them in balls when sent to the table.

  • Boil them in a pot by themselves, till thoroughly done.

  • Boil them in three large pints of water, till so soft that you can pulp them through a cullender.

  • Strain over them sufficient oyster-liquor to cook them well, and to keep them from burning, and to make a gravy so as to stew, but not to boil them.

  • Boil them in a pot by themselves till they are quite soft.

  • Then look at them, and if you find that they have not sucked in enough of the syrup to make the inside very sweet, boil them gently in the syrup for a quarter of an hour.

  • Boil them first, and then scrape and slice them.

  • Boil them again, half an hour in the same syrup, and repeat this for seven or eight days, or till you can pierce through the pine-apple with a straw from a corn-broom.

  • Before you use them, soak the pods all night in cold water; the next day shell them, and soak the beans till you are ready to boil them.

  • Put two good tablespoonfuls of chopped eschalots into a stewpan, with four of white vinegar from a bottle of mild Indian pickles, boil them a couple of minutes, then add a pint of white sauce (No.

  • For dying feathers use clear soft water; to strike the colour add to each pint of water a piece of alum about the size of a walnut; to dye white feathers yellow, boil them in onion peelings or saffron.

  • Logwood dyes lilac, or pink; to turn red hackles brown, boil them in copperas.

  • To dye white feathers blue, boil them in Indigo, by mixing the blue and yellow together, and boiling feathers in the mixed liquid, they become green.

  • Brazil-wood, boil them gently an hour, rinse them, and your colour will be lasting.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boil them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being destroyed; boil fifteen; boil till; boil until; boiled custard; boiled eggs; boiled lobster; boiled rice; boiled salmon; boiling cream; boiling salted water until; boiling temperature; boiling water; five pounds; glanced down; grows wild; inquired what; large estate; memento mori; personal services; promise never; sacred trees; save him; small clearing; solitary life; steam vessels