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Example sentences for "ladleful"

Lexicographically close words:
ladies; lading; ladite; ladle; ladled; ladles; ladling; lado; ladron; lads
  1. It is quite an art to take up a ladleful and pour it into the soup-plate without dropping any on the edge of the tureen or plate, and it requires a steady hand to pass the plate without slopping the soup up on the rim.

  2. One ladleful of soup is sufficient for each plate.

  3. Then add hot water, a ladleful at a time, taking care not to let the rice boil too hard, as it will then become hard in the middle and floury around the edges.

  4. When the host helps the soup, a small ladleful for each person is the proper quantity; a soup-plate should not be filled with soup.

  5. Then dip out a large ladleful of the batter, and bake it on the griddle; turning it when brown, with the cake-turner, and baking it brown on the other side.

  6. The griddle being heated, grease it with nice butter tied in a rag; take a ladleful of batter out of the pan, pour it into the ring, and bake the muffins.

  7. Then drive on the composition one ladleful of clay, through which make a small hole to the charge.

  8. In loading the heads of rockets, a ladleful of powder must be put into each head, along with the decorations.

  9. To a rocket of four ounces, give to each ladleful of charge, 16 strokes; to a rocket of 1 lb.

  10. Half a ladleful of soup is quite enough to serve.

  11. A half-ladleful is quite enough, unless it is a country dinner, where a full ladleful may be given without offence; but do not fill the soup-plate.

  12. Devout men, as they pass by, reverently pour a ladleful of water.

  13. Roreen, and with that he dashed the ladleful of scalding broth right into the face of Fieryfoot, who started up with a wild cry, and rushed half-blinded from the hut.

  14. There was a wild, elfish look about him altogether, as, with a vivacious twinkle of his acute eye, he saluted Diarmid politely, and asked him for a ladleful of the broth.

  15. With that she scooped up half a ladleful of Tiber water.

  16. The next half-ladleful she poured near the spot where the water touched the sieve-rim.

  17. Round near the hoop she dribbled in half-ladleful after half-ladleful until the web of the sieve was entirely covered.

  18. A half-ladleful of soup is quite enough for each person, unless at a country dinner, where a full ladleful may be given without offense.

  19. Dip up from the bottom with each ladleful in helping the soup.

  20. Then see that the paper is not scorching; wet it all over with hot water and a ladleful of gravy; cover and let it alone for an hour and a half more.

  21. Run a teaspoonful of lard over the bottom of a hot frying-pan, pour in a large ladleful of batter, and fry quickly.

  22. About three quarters after eleven, have your slice dried bread ready in a dish, and pour a ladleful of the broth upon it.

  23. Stew them with a ladleful of broth, some pepper and salt, a few small onions, and a blade of mace.

  24. Put a ladleful of the gravy into a basin with the thickening, stir it up quick, add the rest by degrees, till it is all well mixed.

  25. Pour in a ladleful of the soup, mix it with the rest by degrees, and boil it up till it is smooth.

  26. Flavour the soup with whole pepper, and a head of celery; and to make it of a good colour, draw the gravy from a pound of lean beef over a slow fire, and add a ladleful to the soup, first carefully taking off all the fat.

  27. No, he was not going to say anything, but suddenly he took a ladleful of the hot soup and dashed it over the neck of one sister; another ladleful followed quickly on the neck of the other.


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