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Example sentences for "equal proportions"

  • Excellent bread may be made of equal proportions of wheat, rye flour, and Indian; or of three parts wheat and one part Indian.

  • Indian batter cakes may be made as above--or rye and Indian may be mixed in equal proportions.

  • The above quantity of mince meat may of course be reduced, in equal proportions, for small families.

  • A smaller quantity may of course be made of equal proportions.

  • Cut away the coarsest fat, and boil it in equal proportions of milk and water for 3/4 hour.

  • Equal proportions of linseed-oil, turpentine, vinegar, and spirits of wine.

  • Applied with a camel-hair pencil, alone or mixed in equal proportions, with a soap liniment or compound camphor liniment, and rubbed on the part.

  • To a solution of platinum in aqua regia (platinic chloride) is added, drop by drop, a mixture of spirit of tar and balsam of sulphur in equal proportions, until by a trial the composition is found to give the required result.

  • In intractable cases a large dose of chloral hydrate (1 ounce in a quart of water) or the inhalation of chloroform and air (equal proportions) to insensibility may secure a respite, during which the missing members may be replaced.

  • It may be eaten either warm or cold, For sauce, beat together butter and white sugar in equal proportions, mixed with grated nutmeg.

  • The day before you cook it, lay it in a pickle made of equal proportions of water and vinegar with salt to your taste.

  • Secondary color, a color formed by mixing any two primary colors in equal proportions.

  • It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

  • In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.

  • Yet here again the burthen does not fall in equal proportions on the aristocracy with the rest of the community.

  • They had been convened only on extraordinary occasions, the last of which was in 1614; their numbers were then in equal proportions, and they voted by orders.

  • Stir this into a quart of boiling water, or milk and water in equal proportions, as preferred.

  • Tart or sweet apples may be used with quinces, in equal proportions, and make a jelly of more pleasant flavor than quinces used alone.

  • The tertiaries may be produced by uniting the secondaries in equal proportions, or by the primaries being combined in the proportion of 2 parts of any given primary and 1 part of each of the two remaining primaries.

  • Dry white lead, japan and rubbing varnish, the liquids of equal proportions.

  • These should be potted in peat, Sphagnum-moss, and loam fibre in equal proportions, with a sprinkling of leaves, and fine broken crocks added.

  • Pot them in equal proportions of Sphagnum-moss and peat, with a little sand and fine crocks.

  • Pot the plants in equal proportions of fibrous loam, peat, and Sphagnum-moss.


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