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Example sentences for "cover with"

  • When wanted cut off a piece sufficient for dinner, put it in a colander over a vessel of boiling water, cover with a plate, steam for ½ hour and serve.

  • Put the pieces of veal into a saucepan; cover with water; add a large pinch of salt, let it boil, skim.

  • Cover with a cloth and let stand at least 15 minutes.

  • Pile the asparagus on the croutes, cover with sauce, garnish with strips of cucumber, and a little chopped parsley, and serve as a vegetable entremet or as an entree for a vegetarian dinner.

  • It is better not to cover with soil, but a sheet of glass should be laid over the pan, which must be placed in a shady part of the greenhouse or cold-frame until the young plants show the first leaf.

  • Increased by cuttings of the half-ripened shoots which strike freely in a soil of sand and peat; cover with a hand-glass, and place in a cool house.

  • To prevent birds from disturbing the seeds after being placed in position, cover with light-colored cloth.

  • Paint the wound over in dry weather, and if the wound is very large, cover with a gunny-sack.

  • Cover with a pane of glass, and place in a partial shade.

  • Cover with bread-crumbs and pour over some cream sauce.

  • Put on crisp lettuce leaves in the salad bowl; cover with a mayonnaise dressing.

  • Cover with 1 cup of hot water and let cook slowly until tender; then add 1/2 can of chopped mushrooms, 1 glass of claret, salt and pepper to taste.

  • Lay in the pudding; cover with a layer of pears and pour over all 3 tablespoonfuls of syrup.

  • Cover with crumbs, dot with butter and add sufficient boiling water to keep from burning.

  • Cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and brown in the oven.

  • Bake for forty minutes, cover with slices of tomatoes and half of a sweet green pepper chopped fine.

  • Pour this sauce over the fish, lay a large mushroom on each piece, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake in the oven.

  • Cover with a buttered paper and cook for forty minutes, basting as required.

  • Fill in sweet cider, or sound claret till it stands halfway up to the ham, cover with a close-fitting upper pan, and put into a hot oven.

  • Lay breasts down, upon a low rack in a deep pan, cover with slices of streaky bacon, shingling the slices well.

  • Cover with a crust rolled fairly thin, prick and bake three-quarters of an hour in a moderately quick oven.

  • Cover with bladder to exclude the air, and in a week they will be fit for use.

  • Turn daily in the liquor for a fortnight, soak it for a few hours in water, dry with a cloth, cover with a coarse paste, put a little water at the bottom of the pan, and bake in a moderate oven for 4 hours.

  • Cover with a piece of clean cloth or absorbent gauze and bandage loosely or tie in place.

  • Cover with a towel or a cover for the purpose.

  • Put the cereal in a deep saucer or small bowl, cover with a plate or saucer and rest on another plate.

  • Cover with a dry flannel and put wadding over that.

  • Set close together in the pan, cover with a cloth, let rise, and bake.

  • Cover with mayonnaise or cream dressing and garnish with hard boiled eggs and parsley.

  • Cover with a layer of beans, letting the rind of the pork just show through.

  • Cover with a meringue made from the white of three eggs beaten with six level tablespoons of powdered sugar.

  • When done so they can be easily mashed work them up with butter to the consistency of paste, cover with breadcrumbs, and bake in a moderate oven.

  • Tie the spices in a muslin bag, cover with vinegar, and cook three or four hours slowly, until very tender, in an agate kettle.

  • Cover with milk, and bake in the oven very slowly for one hour in a covered pan.

  • In the morning drain off water, cover with vinegar, and add the other ingredients.

  • Put in the rhubarb, sugar and flour, cover with crust.

  • Cover with water, and put in a pinch of alum.

  • Turn into a pie pan lined with paste, heap rhubarb well in center, cover with a top crust and bake thirty-five minutes in a hot oven.

  • Sift generously with bar sugar, replace remaining cake, cover with berries, sprinkle with sugar, mask with whipped cream sweetened and flavored with orange extract.

  • Cover with a plate and weights to press out the acrid juice; let stand two hours, sprinkle with pepper, dredge with flour, and saute in hot butter until crisp and a golden brown.

  • Put cabbage in a large frying pan, cover with water, cover closely and cook until cabbage is tender (from forty to eighty minutes).

  • Cover with a buttered paper and bake slowly one hour in a moderate oven.

  • Cover with 1 slice buttered toast, cut in two diagonally.

  • On lettuce place a layer of Sweetbread slices, cover with Slices of cucumber which have been dipped in Mayonnaise dressing and with 2 slices bacon free from rind, cooked until crisp.

  • On one slice of white bread spread Pepper jam, cover with slice of Graham bread, spread with Butter and pepper jam and cover with a slice of white bread.

  • Cover with lid of roasting pan and cook in a medium hot oven.

  • Instead, cover with a damp cloth which has been wrung out of warm water.

  • Drain, mix with a pint of white sauce, pour into a baking dish, cover with slices of cheese, and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes.

  • When microwaving any chicken product, cover with a loose tent of waxed paper to prevent drying.

  • Cover with a double thickness of paper towels.

  • Sprinkle pecans and cracker crumbs on top; cover with a double thickness of paper towels.

  • Cover with a syrup made by cooking the brown sugar, water and butter for two minutes.

  • Cover with a lid and allow to cook slowly for one and a half hours.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cover with" 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:
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