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Example sentences for "keep them from burning"

  • Then fill the opening with minced sweet herbs, sweet basil, and sweet marjoram, laid in loosely and lightly.

  • Be very careful in plucking these to pull out the feathers as carefully and handle them as lightly as possible; for the skin is very easily torn or broken.

  • Rose-water, or extract of rose, evaporates so speedily when over the fire, that it should never be added till the very last.

  • Take some nice fresh beef, and divest it of the bone and fat.

  • Send it to table in the shell, laid on a china dish.

  • Pound a handful of raw spinach till you have extracted a tea-cupful of the juice.

  • And it is very convenient for a new settlement.

  • Put the oysters into a skillet or stew-pan, with barely enough of the liquor to keep them from burning.

  • Strain over them sufficient oyster-liquor to cook them well, and to keep them from burning, and to make a gravy so as to stew, but not to boil them.

  • Take any nice fresh fish of moderate size, and when it is drawn and washed, cut it into three or four pieces, and put them into a stew-pan with amply sufficient hot water to keep them from burning.

  • Wash and drain them, and put them into a stew-pan with no other liquid than just enough of their own liquor to keep them from burning.

  • Moisten them with a little of the soup, just sufficient to keep them from burning.

  • Put them into a sauce-pan with just sufficient water to keep them from burning, and some grated lemon-peel.

  • Put the trimmings into a small sauce-pan with just enough water to keep them from burning, and, covering them closely, let them stew a quarter of an hour.

  • Tie the bodies of the ducks firmly round with strings, (which should be wetted or buttered to keep them from burning,) and put them on the spit before a clear brisk fire.

  • She also stirred them occasionally to keep them from burning.

  • These she let simmer until soft and mushy, not forgetting to stir occasionally to keep them from burning, then poured the fruit into the jelly bag to drip over night.

  • Placing the saucepan over the fire she let the gooseberries simmer until they were soft, not forgetting to stir with the wooden spoon to keep them from burning.

  • Pour over them just enough water to keep them from burning, cover the stew-pan and let the birds cook slowly.

  • Pare, core and slice your apples, put them in a kettle with water enough to keep them from burning, cover them, and as soon as they are soft mash them very fine.

  • Wash and dry them, and rub them with dry flour and a little salt, then put them in a stew-pan, with water sufficient to keep them from burning.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep them from burning" 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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