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Example sentences for "more water"

  • Boil two hours longer, and if the soup becomes too thick add more water.

  • If not sweet enough, add more sugar at table; and in baking, if it seems too dry, more water is needed.

  • Make a gravy of the broth that remained from the cooking of the chicken, adding a tablespoonful of flour stirred into a third of a cup of melted butter; let it boil up, putting in more water if necessary.

  • Then cover them, closely, with more vine leaves, and pour on more water, packing the leaves well and pressing them down.

  • They require no more water than is barely sufficient to give them a start at the bottom.

  • Then pour on more water, in the proportion of a pint to each pound of meat, and add eight or ten turnips pared and sliced thin, with a very little pepper and salt.

  • I have determined to remain here to-day, and have sent Kekwick in search of more water.

  • I shall go one day's journey down, and see what it is; if I can find no more water I must return to this, to rest my horses, and push for the Stevenson.

  • After finishing the survey I followed the creek up for a number of miles in search of more water, but could find none.

  • Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern.

  • I will tell him that there was no more water!

  • Well," said she, "there is no more water!

  • More water may be needed to prevent burning.

  • More water may be needed if the gravy boils down.

  • More water may be added while cooking if necessary.

  • More water may be needed if the apples are not very juicy.

  • Such soap is, indeed, admirably white, glistening, contains no more water than is necessary to its constitution, and may therefore be sold the day after it is made.

  • More water is therefore poured on at the temperature of 190 deg.

  • For the preparation of a concrete foundation, as the hardening should be rapid, no more water should be used than is absolutely necessary to effect a perfect mixture of the ingredients.

  • Put in no more water, then well to cover them.

  • Then boil it in no more water then is necessary.

  • No drop of water can run from the soil into a drain without its place being supplied by air, unless there is more water to supply it; so that drainage, in this way, manifestly promotes the permeation of air through the soil.

  • If we should take of the same soil a large quantity, after it was so dry that not a drop of water could be pressed out by hand, and subject it to the pressure of machinery, we should force from it more water.

  • The whole Atlantic could not get more water on to me than I have already got.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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