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Example sentences for "little ground"

  • Sprinkle thickly with sugar, half brown and half white, and a little ground cinnamon.

  • Put on to boil a breast of mutton or lamb, which has been previously well salted, and spice with a little ground ginger.

  • Fill the hollow with powdered sugar and a little ground cinnamon, if the flavour is liked; a little ground ginger makes a nice flavour, with the zest of a lemon or a pinch of mixed spice according to taste.

  • Lay a few slices of apple on each, cover with castor sugar and a little ground cinnamon, fold half the paste over, point to point, forming a triangular puff.

  • On the French front the Germans won a little ground, but it was unimportant in relation to the situation.

  • The Germans, after a fierce struggle, succeeded in gaining a little ground, when the French troops pivoted from the right and threw them back.

  • Along almost the entire front to the east they launched fierce counterattacks, but only succeeded in gaining a little ground near St. Euphraise to the southwest of Rheims.

  • In the main their attacks broke down, and where they gained a little ground it hardly compensated them for the frightful loss of life incurred.

  • Set this on the fire and stir constantly till nearly boiling; then add half a tumbler of Madeira wine, brandy, or Jamaica rum, fine sugar to the taste, and a little ground cinnamon or grated nutmeg.

  • Horses fed thus will fatten, needing only the addition of a little ground grain, when working hard.

  • All fruit-trees had better occupy as little ground as is consistent with a healthy vigorous growth.

  • Cooked with other vegetables, and mixed with a little ground grain or bran, they are an economical food for fattening pork or beef.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little ground" 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:
    like bodies; little attention; little band; little blue; little child shall lead; little cloud; little crowd; little dance; little doubt; little dove; little embarrassed; little friends; little frightened; little gentleman; little group; little niece; little pieces; little prayer; little salt and cayenne; little sand; little speech; little stock; little sweetheart; little thing; little tree; little water