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Example sentences for "half pound"

  • Pour over them a syrup made of a half pound of sugar to pound of quinces, dissolved in a little water and let it stand over night.

  • Take two medium-sized potatoes (about one-half pound) or one large one cut in half.

  • Assuming this proportion, then, at least one-half pound of shortening can be discarded without any loss of the shortening power.

  • Such a dough, therefore, will call for one-half pound each of sugar and shortening and four ounces of salt to each gallon of water.

  • Take two medium-sized potatoes (about, one-half pound) or one large one cut in half.

  • Make a smooth paste of a half pound flour.

  • Add three ounces of salt, a quarter teaspoonful of pepper and a half pound of butter and boil slowly for five minutes.

  • Make a smooth paste of a half pound of wheat flour and blend in five gallons soup stock.

  • PRUNE WHIP Wash a half pound of prunes and soak them over night.

  • For stuffing, one-half pound of onions, one teaspoonful of powdered sage, three tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, the liver of a duck parboiled and minced with cayenne pepper and salt.

  • Serve in a separate bowl the following sauce; a large spoonful with each portion of fish: Peel one-half pound of horseradish root, grate and mix well with one pint of cream beaten stiff.

  • Take one-half pound potatoes, peel and slice, and add to the celery, so that both will be cooked at the same moment.

  • Half pound each of flour and beef-suet, 1/4 pound currants, and 4 eggs.

  • Stone a half pound of very good raisins, or use the sultana or seedless sort.

  • To two large pine-apples allow a half pound of sugar, which has been melted in a quart of boiling water.

  • In a shallow pan put a half pint of rich unskimmed milk, and cut up in it a half pound of the best fresh butter.

  • Break up a half pound of the best double-refined loaf sugar.

  • Add, gradually, the eggs and milk to the butter and sugar, alternately with a half pound of sifted flour.

  • Boil three pints of milk, and while it is boiling, sprinkle in a half pound of farina.

  • Creole Sandwiches Put a half pound of American cheese through your meat grinder, add to it one Neufchatel cheese, mix well together; add one fresh peeled chopped tomato.

  • Chop one-half pound of cold, boiled mutton rather fine; add two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, half a teaspoonful of salt, and a saltspoonful of paprika.

  • German Sandwiches Put a half pound of Swiss cheese through the meat grinder; add to it the yolks of two eggs, four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, a dash of cayenne and a half teaspoonful of salt.

  • Liquid Verbena Soap: Cut in small pieces one-half pound of pure imported castile soap.

  • The benzoinated mutton tallow can be made by taking one-half pound of the tallow and one-half ounce of the benzoin, and keeping at a high temperature until the alcohol has completely evaporated.

  • They have cards for Kaffee-Ersatz, and each person gets a half pound a month.

  • These butter lines were controlled by the police, and it was no joke standing out in the cold to get a half pound of butter.

  • Until after Christmas there were no other cards, but along in December the butter began to be scarce, and the stores would sell only a half pound to each person, and the people had to stand in line to get that half pound.

  • Roast one-half pound of hazelnuts, pound to a fine paste, mix with a little milk and two ounces of sugar.

  • Add to one quart of cantaloupe pulp the juice of three lemons and a half pound of sugar.

  • One-half pound of sugar, one pint of water, one pint of strawberry pulp, the juice of one lemon, and coloring.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half pound" 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:
    answer thus; good constitution; half acres; half aloud; half asleep; half century; half company; half cupfuls; half cups; half days; half degrees; half dram; half fathoms; half hour; half hours; half laughing; half leagues; half length; half miles; half minute; half minutes; half past; half slave and half; half teaspoon; not even; public faith