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Example sentences for "close covered"

  • I have noticed that if a little water is boiled for a few minutes in a close covered vessel in which some pasty food has been cooked, the particles are so loosened by the steam that the vessel washes easily.

  • Serve in a dish on a napkin covered with another napkin, or in a close covered dish, as a few momentsaEuro(TM) exposure to the air toughens it.

  • When done, sift and keep in close covered can or jar.

  • Then mix all the ingredients well together, put them into a pan, and keep it close covered in a cool place.

  • Have ready a pot of boiling water over a fire, put them in close covered, and let the omlets steam till thoroughly done.

  • This mixture will keep a month if close covered.

  • Then put water upon it, but just to cover it, and boil it close covered a matter of two hours pretty smartly, so that it be well half boiled.

  • Rice, and all sorts of seeds for puddings and saloops, should be close covered to preserve from insects; but that will not prevent it, if long kept.

  • Simmer it close covered, and very slowly, for three or four hours.

  • Stew it gently for an hour, close covered, and put to it a quart of gravy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "close covered" 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:
    cease fire; close action; close arrest; close attention; close column; close enough; close examination; close fight; close friend; close order; close quarters; close relation; close the; close together; close upon; close vessels; close watch; closely followed; closely pursued; closely veiled; each succeeding; good day; make smooth; other course; width from; wife being