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Example sentences for "crumbs"

Lexicographically close words:
crumble; crumbled; crumbles; crumbling; crumbly; crumby; crummy; crumpets; crumple; crumpled
  1. A little nutmeg should be put into the seasoning, and a few crumbs of bread into the flour.

  2. Thicken with oatmeal or bread crumbs (oatmeal is the more nourishing); let the mixture boil for another half hour, and serve.

  3. Reduce to fine crumbs the interior of a 2-lb.

  4. After brushing off the crumbs rub the lace with a piece of crimson velvet.

  5. So, when this fish is properly fed, it always gets two crumbs at a time.

  6. Then there was the gelatine fish, that has no mouth at all, but is very soft and pulpy, and all that is necessary is to drop some crumbs upon his back, and they immediately soak in.

  7. When, at last, a few sacks of hard bread were brought through, and the very crumbs counted out to secure fair division, those crumbs were more delicious than the most costly preparations of food on royal tables.

  8. IX Peter happened to be engaged in the amiable pastime of tossing bread-crumbs to his goldfinches.

  9. She bestowed her bread crumbs on the birds; but she was able, somehow, to discriminate mightily in favour of the goldfinches.

  10. Dip in beaten egg and then roll in fine bread crumbs and fry until golden brown in hot fat.

  11. Place a one-half inch layer of bread crumbs in a small baking dish, then a layer of tomatoes, then the bread crumbs and again the tomatoes.

  12. Form into croquettes, roll in flour, dip in beaten egg and then roll in fine bread crumbs and fry until golden brown in hot fat.

  13. Cut slice from the top, scoop out the crumbs and then fill with whipped cream or fruit whip.

  14. The coarse crumbs are used for filling the turkey.

  15. To prepare the crumbs dry all pieces of stale bread thoroughly.

  16. To prepare the pans: Grease them thoroughly, then coat them with finely chopped nuts or fine cake crumbs before pouring in the dough.

  17. For you know lots of bread crumbs are needed for the fish cakes and then filling of the birds.

  18. Sprinkle with fine crumbs and one tablespoon of finely minced onion, two tablespoons of finely minced parsley.

  19. Beat to mix and then add Two and one-half cups of coarse bread crumbs and sufficient flour to make a very stiff mixture.

  20. Sprinkle each tomato with fine bread crumbs and bake in a moderate oven for thirty minutes.

  21. Cover the top with fine bread crumbs and two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese and bake for thirty-five minutes in a moderate oven.

  22. Put the well-dried bread through the food chopper and then sift through the colander; either put the coarse crumbs through the food chopper the second time or keep them for au gratin dishes.

  23. But the countryman let them have no peace until at last they went, and got on the table, and ate up the bread-crumbs with all their might.

  24. The snake, however, only drank the milk, and left the bread-crumbs alone.

  25. Hansel, however, little by little, threw all the crumbs on the path.

  26. Then one day the child took its little spoon and struck the snake gently on its head with it, and said, "Eat the bread-crumbs as well, little thing.

  27. The Crumbs on the Table A countryman one day said to his little puppies, "Come into the parlour and enjoy yourselves, and pick up the bread-crumbs on the table; your mistress has gone out to pay some visits.

  28. The witch placed herself on the shore, threw bread-crumbs in, and gave herself every possible trouble to entice the duck; but the duck did not let herself be enticed, and the old woman had to go home at night as she had come.

  29. Bring more," cried he, "these few crumbs don't fill it.

  30. He scarcely heeded Glynn's announcement of his immediate departure, and merely answered his ardent request for the earliest information respecting any crumbs of intelligence in the affirmative.

  31. His subordinate obeyed, and discovered a small square of chocolate, a few crumbs of bread, and two pins.

  32. The crumbs of a great man's autobiography are no less precious than the crumbs of his wisdom.

  33. Crumbs they leave me that my life may not altogether go from me, but these crumbs they make foul to my taste and my smell.

  34. It was my first and only success, over here," admitted Hartley, catching at those crumbs of praise, the first that had been flung before him during four long months of ceaseless endeavor.

  35. It being usual in this country to introduce leeks, you must then omit the bread-crumbs and rice, or part of the onions.

  36. The child will think so too, and will run off joyfully to bring a piece of bread to form crumbs to be scattered upon the path.

  37. When the sound ceases, she looks to the child with an expression of pleasure upon her countenance, and says, "Suppose we give that bird some crumbs because he has been singing us such a pretty song.

  38. At any rate, it will be a pleasure to us to give him some crumbs to pay him for his song.

  39. On top layer put sauce, thickly sprinkled with bread crumbs and grated gruyere cheese.

  40. Butter the dish; cover the bottom of the dish with bread crumbs, add a layer of oysters, season with pepper and salt, then bread crumbs and oysters until you have three layers.

  41. Let this mixture cool in a soup plate and roll into cork shaped croquettes with finely grated bread crumbs and fry in lard hot.

  42. Roll in oval balls with floured hands in egg and bread crumbs and fry in hot lard.

  43. Take two cupfuls of cold mashed potatoes, beat up with two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and three eggs, make into rolls, cover with cracker dust, or bread crumbs and fry.

  44. Place on top one cup of bread crumbs and one half cup of grated cheese.

  45. Cook butter and flour together until a rich brown, and add to the soup; season, cook gently half an hour; stir in half a cup of bread crumbs and in a few minutes serve hot.

  46. Shape with the hands into cutlets, roll in bread crumbs and fry in hot lard.

  47. Soak one cup of dried bread crumbs in fresh milk.

  48. Roll in the beaten egg and bread crumbs and fry in hot fat two minutes.

  49. One of the best cooks was in the habit of saving everything, and announced one day, when her soup was especially praised, that it contained the crumbs of gingerbread from her cake box!

  50. Take a good sized onion, peel, slice, and fry it well with a piece of butter the size of an egg; pour the liquor from this into your bread crumbs and blend all thoroughly together.

  51. When thoroughly mixed pat into shape desired, roll in crumbs and fry.

  52. There is a cult for Crumby Rabbits variations on which extend all the way to a deep casserole dish called Baked Rabbit and consisting of alternate layers of stale bread crumbs and grated-cheese crumbs.

  53. Beat this scraped cheese in a mortar with the yolks of 4 eggs, 1/4 pound of fresh butter, and the crumbs of a French roll boiled in cream until soft.

  54. Reshape in original Camembert form, dust thickly with the crumbs and there you are.

  55. She made baguettes of it by soaking sticks three-eights-inch square and one and a half inches long in lukewarm milk, rolling them in flour, beaten egg and bread crumbs and browning them instantaneously in boiling oil.

  56. Hadn't he read a story when he was a kid about some children who had left a trail of crumbs only to have the birds eat them?

  57. He devoured every bit of it, including the crumbs left in the can.

  58. There were other crumbs and scraps, however.

  59. The crumbs and scraps had been saved for a long time even then.

  60. The crumbs and scraps themselves were useless in the end.

  61. The saving of crumbs and scraps had not been without its value.

  62. Production no longer equaled consumption, and when that state of things comes crumbs and scraps disappear of themselves.

  63. The man had been trying to make use of crumbs and scraps for his own benefit.

  64. Put all on baking-dish, sift crumbs over it, bake 3/4 hour in slow oven.

  65. Dip the oysters, one by one, into the beaten egg and roll them in the crumbs till covered in every part.

  66. Take off the sauce when done and stir in fish and oysters, then put in a pudding-dish and put a layer of bread crumbs on top; over the bread crumbs put flakes of butter.

  67. Have ready a sufficiency of finely-sifted bread crumbs prepared by rubbing the heart of a stale loaf of white bread in a towel and pressing it through a sieve.

  68. Cover evenly with the crumbs and lightly brown in a quick oven.

  69. What became of the fragments, which outweighed the original supply, we do not read; but though they were only the crumbs of the Divine bounty, and though there was no present use for them, Jesus would not allow them to be wasted.

  70. They do not even travel so far as to the poor beggar who is cast daily at his gate, in hopes that some of the shaken-out crumbs of the banquet may fall within his reach.

  71. Yes, but it takes sugar," ventured Ollie, rolling some crumbs between her fingers.

  72. The baronet pulled out a handkerchief and began flicking the crumbs off his knees.

  73. IV If capitalism had offered the working class nothing but the crumbs of middle class liberty, the diatribes of the revolutionaries would be not without justification.

  74. If so, his pretty art succeeds, I'll scatter there among the weeds All the small crumbs I see.

  75. The old hen had to break the crumbs smaller between her bill.

  76. She strewed the crumbs on the ground, and the old hen announced dinner.

  77. Angela came under the lindens, carrying a vessel of water and some crumbs in her apron for the little ones.

  78. But it wouldn't dry; and tears of jam used to trickle down the paper panes and mingle with the tin-tacks and the bread-crumbs on the sill.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crumbs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.