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Example sentences for "dish"

Lexicographically close words:
disgustedly; disgustful; disgusting; disgustingly; disgusts; dishabille; disharmonic; disharmonies; disharmony; dishcloth
  1. There are that write, how one of his owne seruants did conspire with a conuert of that abbeie, and that they prepared a dish of peares, which they poisoned, three of the whole number excepted, which dish the said conuert presented vnto him.

  2. It certainly was not according to the order of nature; nevertheless the fact was so, all my grandfather's researches in the dish failing to bring to light the missing members.

  3. He had superintended the cooking himself of every individual dish with his own eyes--or rather eye--he having but one, the other having been lost in a skirmish when he was midshipman on board a pirate in the Brazilian service.

  4. He held the manor on condition that he was to bring to the king's table, on the Feast of St. James each year, the first dish at dinner, and with the dish the satisfactorily large rent of a hundred pounds in coined gold of the realm.

  5. Dorking was famous for a particular way of making water-souchy, a delicious dish of various fishes, of which Mr. J.

  6. The waiter invariably brings to every table a chafing-dish with a burning coal, which will light a cigar long after its outer glow has subsided into ashy white.

  7. Between each dish was a white anemone, its pure whiteness standing out dazzlingly against the fresh verdure.

  8. And the sight brings home to me more than the suggestion of a dish at supper, savoury things of the size of a large plum, on a cushion of polenta.

  9. Another way of liking singing-birds is on toast between a scrap of bacon and a leaf of sage, a dainty dish much prized by persons of weak stomach.

  10. The dish had gone by; it would never come again.

  11. Then came a large dish of beans; we ate beans.

  12. Then came the bonne with a dish of grilled rabbit (it was delicious); we ate rabbit.

  13. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:62.

  14. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles after the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:38.

  15. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:44.

  16. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:74.

  17. A silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:20.

  18. But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.

  19. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:68.

  20. And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:14.

  21. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:80.

  22. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:26.

  23. Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles of silver, and each bowl seventy sicles: that is, putting all the vessels of silver together, two thousand four hundred sicles, by the weight of the sanctuary.

  24. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:32.

  25. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: 7:50.

  26. He asked her water, and she gave him milk, and offered him butter in a dish fit for princes.

  27. They are some of them as long as my finger, should be easily caught in these shallows, and some day I'll have a dish of them.

  28. We had kava, and then a dish of arrowroot; one end of the house was screened off for us with a fine tapa, and we lay and slept, the three of us heads and tails, upon the mats till dinner.

  29. But this morning bald-head told me to carry in dish myself: in future I must taste all grub in presence of old man.

  30. A bald-headed chap kept eye on me, and made me gobble a bit; then carried dish away, and told me in due course it was well.

  31. His work was always done under the eyes of a priest, and he had to taste of every dish before it was removed.

  32. The vessels buried with the bodies appear to have consisted of a flat dish and a round pot.

  33. Forks and spoons, wrapped in a dish towel, will fit nicely in the canvas bag alongside the pots.

  34. Then she got up again, and set the dish of apples on the table, and went to the cupboard, and got some flour and a lump of butter.

  35. Then she went to the knife-box and got a knife; and then she took a yellow dish from the dresser, and sat down in her arm-chair, and began to pare the apples.

  36. Then the servants put on the table what the children liked best of all, and that was a dish of fine motto-kisses, and oranges, and grapes, and other nice fine fruits.

  37. When all these are reduced to three quarts, just dish it on a flat dish and let it cool for a day, or till it gets hard as a brick.

  38. When serving, take eggs out of the shell; cut in halves; place the eggs on a vegetable dish (the cut part up).

  39. The above can be made from any greens; but this is not in use in European houses in Ceylon, but very nice dish for Curries.

  40. The above entree should be served up on a small flat dish for a dinner, lunch, supper, etc.

  41. If carefully prepared will find it as a economical dish for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

  42. During you preparing the above, soak six cabin biscuits in boiling water for two minutes, then take it out of the water and dish the biscuits, and pour over the devil gravy you prepared.

  43. The above dish (usually the native way) not used in gentlemen's houses, but I recommend it to be tried.

  44. Send to table on a flat dish large enough to carve the fowl, and leave enough gravy to go round the table; I mean not juicy, neither dry.

  45. Just heat it again and send to table in a vegetable dish with boiled rice separate.

  46. The above dish should be light-yellow colour, the gravy thick as cream.

  47. Nevertheless, I have chosen, as being more equitable, to prepare some also sufficiently objurgatory, that readers of every taste may find a dish to their palate.

  48. To the dish thus seasoned add a drawl ad libitum.

  49. Come and rest while I fetch a dish to put the flowers in till you want them;" and Mrs. Pecq turned her round with her small Maying safely done.

  50. The girls trimmed each dish with bright leaves, and made the supper look like a banquet for the elves, while the boys built a fire in the nook where ashes and blackened stones told of many a rustic meal.

  51. It is an unspeakable dish to have set before you on a hot day.

  52. If you are still in the land of the living, I would take a fair bet that it never occurs to you now to order, of your own accord, a dish of lentils!

  53. The chief dish of the poorer classes was porridge, made of a farinaceous substance and which served them as bread.

  54. In a distant dark room, a lamp (the usual dish of oil), with a wick of one hundred strands or piths, is set.

  55. At the given signal, the battle commenced, the object being to break the earthen dish on the head of the enemy.

  56. This last-mentioned dish consists, in its simplest form, merely of potatoes boiled in very salt water, with cheese and Spanish pepper.

  57. Another dish not less indispensable to a Lima dinner than puchero, is picante.

  58. The new Doctor was required to send to every member of the University, from the Bachelors to the Rector, a new dollar, a goblet full of ice, and a dish of pastry.

  59. And how another evening, she Slipped salt into Jane's dish of tea; And many another naughty feat Did Ann perform and Jane repeat.

  60. I lost no opportunity of making friends with her, and in about a fortnight's time I could both take her dish away without a broom and lead her out without the pole.

  61. I procured them a large roomy cage, with plenty of sand and a layer of straw in the bottom of it, a dish or two, a bath, a drinking fountain, and always a supply of fresh green weeds on the roof of their domicile.

  62. She had a glass dish for her food, and another for her milk, and the floor of the cage was covered with pine shavings, regularly changed once in two days, and among which Mary built her nest.

  63. When I went to take her dish away next morning, to wash and replenish it, only my own celerity in beating a retreat prevented my legs from being viciously bitten.

  64. I then endeavoured to remove the dish with the stable besom.

  65. These hemlock boughs, and the straw upon this raised platform, were his bed, and this broken dish held his drink.

  66. You have the air creeping in over the edge of the dish forming these tongues.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aerial; antenna; baffle; bail; balk; blast; boil; bowl; brave; broil; bucket; cave; challenge; chat; checkmate; circumvent; confound; confront; cook; counter; counteract; countermand; course; cover; cross; cup; dash; decant; defeat; defy; dessert; destroy; dip; discomfit; disconcert; discountenance; dish; disrupt; elude; entree; fix; foil; fork; frustrate; fry; grill; help; helping; hollow; kayo; ladle; perplex; place; plate; platter; portion; pour; receptacle; retire; retreat; roast; ruin; sabotage; scoop; scuttle; service; serving; settle; shelve; shovel; sink; spade; spike; spoil; spoon; stump; thwart; torpedo; undo; upset


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dish them; dishonorable discharge