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Example sentences for "large piece"

  • Add a large piece of butter rolled in flour, and lastly put in the dumplings.

  • Hashed meat would always be much better if the slices were cut from the joint or large piece as soon as it leaves the table, and soaked in the gravy till next day.

  • Let it stew about five minutes, and then put in the oysters, adding a large piece of butter rolled-in flour, and salt and cayenne pepper to your taste.

  • It is a Good Precaution to have always at hand a large piece of baize, to throw over a female whose dress is burning, or to be wetted and thrown over a fire that has recently broken out.

  • The frame itself, especially for a large piece of work, should be substantially made; otherwise the stress upon it will be apt to warp it, and drag the canvas.

  • Commands:-- --Tear a large piece of paper into tiny bits on your table.

  • Now try to put in the largest pieces possible by substituting for several small pieces a large piece which is equal to them.

  • On the 7th of May, soon after we had left the bay, a large piece of ice drove across the cut- water of the Resolution, and brought home the small bower-anchor.

  • Upon the evening of the day in which these disasters happened, the captain producing a large piece of boiled seal, suffered no one to partake with him but the surgeon, who was the only man in favour at this time.

  • So, if you adopt a tapered bolt, you cannot adopt a certain distance that it shall stand out before you begin to drive it, for there will be more material to compress in a large piece than in a small one.

  • A large piece of work of this kind would be marked off with lines defined by centre-punch dots, as shown.

  • So soon as the pin is home, a large piece of wetted cotton waste should be wrapped round its journal, and a stream of water kept running on it, to keep the crank pin cold.

  • If you drive a half-inch bolt into a large piece of iron, it is the small bolt which you compress; therefore the larger the bolt the more pressure you can give to produce the same result.

  • Take a large piece of fine fresh salmon, cut from the middle of the fish, well cleaned and carefully scaled.

  • Peter opened his round eyes very wide when he saw what a large piece of meat Alm-Uncle gave him on his thick slice of bread.

  • Open it," said the old man, and he put in a large piece of bread and an equally large piece of cheese, which made Peter open his eyes, for each was twice the size of the two portions which he had for his own dinner.

  • While the kettle was boiling the old man held a large piece of cheese on a long iron fork over the fire, turning it round and round till it was toasted a nice golden yellow color on each side.

  • The remaining one-the leader himself-tore up into long narrow strips a large piece of cloth, six cubits long, and tied the hands and feet of the robbers.

  • One day, the merchant had gone for a few minutes into the back shop, leaving Tom sitting, apparently asleep, beside a large piece of butter, which had just been weighed.

  • We had gone about three miles after dinner when we saw a burned place in the brush on the right where there was quite a large piece of bottom land.

  • At night they came in and cleared up what was left of the entrails of the steer, also securing a fine, large piece of beef which Cap.

  • A large piece of old muslin, that you can tear in pieces as needed, should always be at hand, and a wet sponge on which to wipe your fingers.

  • Lay the frame you have just made down on a large piece of strong writing-paper and mark a line on the paper one inch from and entirely surrounding the outer edge of the frame down to the handle.

  • It looked at one stage as if the ship was to be made the plaything of successive floes, and I was relieved when she came to a standstill with a large piece of our old "dock" under the starboard bilge.

  • Later in the day Crean and two other men were over the side on a stage chipping at a large piece of ice that had got under the ship and appeared to be impeding her movement.

  • Cuthbert, giving her a large piece of cake and several lumps of sugar.

  • Every person had a large piece, it looked so good.

  • She gave Mr. Meredith a large piece, and insisted besides on serving him with an unwieldy lump of pink icing containing a large scrawly "e" from the last syllable of Cuthbert's name.

  • Strange to say, some one soon appeared with a large piece of cotton like a sheet.

  • The door was opened and a glass of water and a large piece of cassava bread were pushed into my cell as far as the man's arms could go.

  • And by the time that I had the letter completed, the rope was made very secure to the great piece of rock, and, further, they had put a large piece of chafing gear under that part of the rope where it took the edge of the cliff.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large piece" 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:
    avec les; being many; large birds; large block; large bodies; large bundle; large concourse; large court; large dish; large estate; large force; large increase; large iron; large measure; large party; large pile; large ship; large size; large spoon; large tree; largely self; larger amount; larger scale; larger work; spiritual existence; thin paper