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Example sentences for "cover tightly"

  • Put all into a saucepan with only water enough to cook them tender, cover tightly, when done, brown a little butter and flour together to make the gravy the proper consistency, season with pepper and salt and serve.

  • Cover tightly, letting them cook until quite tender, then mash through a purée sieve with the water in which they were boiled and using a little more to take out all that is good of the peas through the sieve.

  • Cover tightly, let it cook slowly until done, put it where it will only simmer for two hours.

  • Cover tightly, and simmer slowly for three hours; then add the tomato, and cook one hour longer.

  • Cover tightly, and let cook very gently, on the back of the stove, one hour.

  • Cover tightly, and stew very slowly three or four hours, according to the size.

  • Put into a jar without a drop of water; cover tightly, and set in a pot of cold water.

  • Cover tightly, and steam for half an hour, keeping the water in the outer vessel on a hard boil.

  • Cover tightly in a stone crock, and put away for to-morrow’s stock.

  • Cover tightly to keep in the strength of the wine, and set for twenty minutes in a saucepan of boiling water.

  • Put the lamb into a broad pot, with some thin slices of fat pork laid in the bottom; pour in the gravy, cover tightly, and stew gently one hour.

  • Cover with six or eight chops browned in butter, add a little stock or water, season to taste, cover tightly, and cook until tender.

  • Pour into a buttered mould, leaving room to swell, cover tightly, put into boiling water and boil rapidly for five hours.

  • Put into an earthen dish, cover with water, sprinkle with sugar, cover tightly, and cook slowly.

  • Put into cold water from half an inch to an inch in depth, sprinkle with sugar, cover tightly, and cook very slowly on the back part of the range till tender.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cover tightly" 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:
    certain branches; certain form; cover closely; cover them; cover tightly; cover with; covered chair; covered dish; covered over; covered with; coverts black; coverts brown; coverts white; high place; its life; loved ones; luck would; prevent burning; right understanding; shall continue; step over; thus treated; trying hard; vertical plane; well told; what occurred