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Example sentences for "kettleful"

Lexicographically close words:
ketones; kettell; kettle; kettledrum; kettledrums; kettles; kettu; key; keyboard; keyboards
  1. Again she boiled her kettleful of ale, and again slept soundly in her blankets as on the previous night.

  2. As soon as the first kettleful of pitch was ready, it was carefully applied while smoking hot, care being taken to work it well into the seams.

  3. To make one kettleful of salt we must boil away from thirty to fifty kettlefuls of water.

  4. Then another kettleful was set to boil, and so the work went slowly forward.

  5. Our last lodge-pole was burnt to cook a kettleful of meat for breakfast on December 1st, and before daylight we were off, with no thought of camping till we could make fire.

  6. The day was rather mild, and Hepburn and I gathered a large kettleful of tripe de roche; Michel slept in the tent this night.

  7. Hepburn gathered a kettleful of tripe de roche, but froze his fingers.

  8. He said he was pretty sure his wife couldn't boil up a kettleful and color either of those colors from them.

  9. Now goodies taste good to me, very good, but I haven't a friend in the world who would think of boiling up a kettleful of molasses into candy, or of making a waiterful of seed-cakes to send me.

  10. The good old woman used to bring the kettleful of wheat and empty it under that tree day after day.

  11. They immediately got up and ran after the sparrow, which led them until they came where an old woman brought a kettleful of boiled wheat, and emptying it under a tree, went away.

  12. It is three weeks since she set on to boil so much as a kettleful of water--and they are clamoring for the rent.

  13. You were not so sick all this time, but you could have laid the fire, put on a kettleful of water, were you?


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kettleful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.