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Example sentences for "dishing"

Lexicographically close words:
disherited; dishes; disheveled; dishevelled; dishful; dishonest; dishonestly; dishonesty; dishonor; dishonorable
  1. She dished him for Eyre," he concluded, "and now she's dishing Eyre for him.

  2. Dishing up other fellows' policies, whether you believe in 'em or not.

  3. Serve in the rind, dishing it out by spoonfuls.

  4. Prepare the oatmeal as directed above, and stir in lightly, when dishing for the table, some sliced mellow and juicy raw sweet apples.

  5. In this way, it will retain its shape perfectly, and not be mixed with the few drops of water so annoying to invalids, and so hard to avoid in dishing a poached egg from water.

  6. Soup ladles used in dishing out and stirring cooking food.

  7. Small ladles used in stirring or dishing out soup.

  8. Be sure it is loosened from the pan before you try to turn it out; hold pan and dish fast in place; do not be nervous or flurried, and you will soon catch the knack of dishing the omelette dexterously and handsomely.

  9. Wrap a hot towel about the pail, and leave it four minutes before dishing the eggs.

  10. Mr. MacNebbins sat composedly smoking on his back doorsteps; while his more forceful half flitted about the kitchen, intent on the dishing of the students' dinner.

  11. When dishing it, remove the sliced lemon, shalots, parsley, &c.

  12. Disraeli, as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons, proceeded with characteristic audacity and a light heart to educate the new Conservative Party in the art of dishing the Whigs.

  13. It is scarcely too much to say that if they had been demolished a month earlier the Russell Government would have carried its Reform proposals, and Disraeli would have lost his chance of 'dishing the Whigs.

  14. In dishing up, be very careful not to let the lobster crumble or break.

  15. Great care must be exercised in dishing up to preserve the appearance and shape of the dish.

  16. Joints require no basting, and provided care is taken to lower the gas sufficiently to prevent scorching the bags, the food can be left to look after itself until the proper time for dishing up arrives.

  17. Also, unless the bag is full large for the contents, it is somehow awkward in dishing up.

  18. After dishing up the marrow, turn the sauce into the tin to brown, and pour through a strainer over the marrow.

  19. When they are to be plainly served as a vegetable, it is best to remove the lid of the saucepan a few minutes before dishing up, and so reduce the liquor to the desired strength.

  20. Sprouts are often spoiled in the dishing up, but no vegetable looks and tastes nicer if properly cooked and served.

  21. Let it simmer ten minutes, and just before dishing add two wineglasses of good cooking wine and simmer again before serving.

  22. Head, should be lean and bony; forehead wide and somewhat dishing between the eyes; face straight but not long.

  23. When dishing it, cut the top crust pie-fashion, and lay it round the meat.

  24. This seemed her chief failing, an inability to see the necessity of dishing up quickly.

  25. She eyed her husband for a moment and turned to begin dishing up her supper.

  26. At the other side of the broad hearthstone, Roxy Griever bent above a dinner-pot dishing up white beans and dumplings.

  27. But there he was, taking orders and dishing out drinks with an attitude as solemn and impersonal as an owl on a tree branch.

  28. Some put in oysters five minutes before dishing up.

  29. Regulate your time when you put in your roast, so that it will be done half an hour or forty minutes before dishing up.

  30. Now strain and thicken the gravy, and after dishing up the ducks, pour it over them, garnishing with the pieces of turnip.

  31. You had better go on dishing up your supper, mother and not be talking nonsense like that.

  32. She stopped dishing up the potatoes, wiped her brow, and turned to look at her daughter, with a slow expression of admiration in her gaze.

  33. Mrs. Ricketts was just dishing up some potatoes for supper when Maggie flung open the door of the tiny cottage, walked across the room, and flung herself on a little settle by the fire.

  34. That is so; but they were dishing out when I went down.

  35. You ought to be there when they are dishing out.

  36. I suppose so; but I have an order to be in the prison a large part of the time, at all three of the meals, when they are dishing out, and they are obliged to do it without my oversight.

  37. Just before dishing the meat, make a caper sauce, as directed in receipt No.

  38. When dishing you must carefully take the yolks without breaking them and pour over the gravy, and send to table with boiled rice; and thin slices of ham should be handed round with this Curry and rice.

  39. Now this is ready after dishing the above.

  40. The pillau rice should accompany roast fowl or mutton chops by dishing the meat on a flat dish, and cover it with pillau rice, and sprinkle over with fried onions, etc.

  41. I don't say but what I may take a whiff while the dinner's dishing up.

  42. They were dishing up the dinner and putting the finishing-touches to the table.

  43. It has been the greatest fun imaginable, poking about in their houses and dishing them up afterward.

  44. Dishing up the dirt to the young master can scarcely be described as gassing all over the place," I said, with a touch of rebuke.

  45. Just before dishing up put in a wineglass each of sherry and brandy.

  46. Only, he imagines that he is dishing me, whereas it is I who am dishing him.

  47. Drain off fat, by laying upon a hot, clean paper, before dishing them.

  48. A few minutes before dishing them, test with a fork to ascertain if they are tender.

  49. If you like, you can pour a rich custard about the base after dishing it.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cavernous; concave; cupped; hollow; incurved; retiring; retreating; sunk; sunken