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Example sentences for "much water"

  • Take the bones and other trimmings, put them in a sauce-pan with as much water as will cover them, and some sliced onions, and let them stew till you have drawn from them a good gravy.

  • The success of this depends upon not having too much water; it will not jelly if too weak, or if the water is allowed to boil away entirely while cooking.

  • Have ready a good broth made of three pounds of veal boiled slowly in as much water as will cover it, till the meat is reduced to shreds.

  • Put them into a kettle and add about one-fourth as much water as currants.

  • Put them into a kettle, add about half as much water as apples, and cook slowly until the apples are soft.

  • Before it stops dripping, return the pulp to the kettle, add half as much water as pulp, and allow the fruit to cook again.

  • Then make a sirup with half as much water as sugar and cook it until it will spin a thread.

  • If apples are very juicy, use only one-half as much water.

  • A1/2 as much water as of fruit and A1/2 as much sugar as of juice.

  • Drain (there should not be much water left), pour cream or sauce over, let stand over hot water 10-20 m.

  • Add A1/4 as much water as of apples in the kettle.

  • He felt that the Doctor had put in so much water that he could not taste the physic; and he drank on and on, every drop seeming to make it easier at last to think.

  • Now," he continued, after drinking, "take as much water as you like.

  • There will be three hundred idle men here with nothing to do, and they can fetch as much water as we want for the day's supply from the river.

  • After that we take the prints and place them on a glass slab, and, with a squeegee, squeeze as much water as possible out of each separately; this we repeat twice.

  • Now take the first plate, and well wash under a tap till all greasiness has disappeared; place it on a levelling stand, and pour on as much water as the plate will hold.

  • It was with great difficulty that we got our exhausted animal on, the following morning, although I again gave him as much water as I could spare.

  • I therefore desired Lewis to stop, and gave the horses as much water as they would drink, still leaving a considerable quantity in the tank, of which I hoped we might yet avail ourselves.

  • Thence to take the light cart with one horse, carrying as much water as he could draw, and with one man, on foot, to pursue a due north course into the brush.

  • Take one hundred oysters out of their liquor, and add to them as much water as there was liquor.

  • Put them into the pot with the tripe and add as much water as will cover them; also four onions sliced, and a small bunch of sweet herbs chopped finely.

  • Cut in small pieces four pounds of tripe, put it on to boil in as much water as will cover it, allowing a tea spoonful of salt to every quart of water.

  • Boil the macaroni until tender in only as much water as it will absorb.

  • Turn the mixture into a pie-dish, and pour over as much water or vegetable stock as may be required for gravy.

  • Swell the sago over the fire with as much water as it will absorb; when quite soft put into it the butter to melt, and, when melted, mix in the oatmeal and wheatmeal.

  • Pick and wash the lentils, and cook them in only as much water as they will absorb.

  • Pulverize finely and dissolve in as much water as will dissolve it and no more--say 14 gallons of water in a tight barrel; and let it be well dissolved before using it.

  • Then mix some of Scott's liquid blue in as much water as will be sufficient to cover the things to be dyed, and add some starch to give it a light stiffness.

  • Cover it close with a dish or coarse crust, and bake with as much water as will cover it, till the beef is done enough for eating.

  • American flour requires nearly twice as much water to make it into bread as is used for English flour, and therefore it is more profitable.

  • Apples are to be pared, quartered and cored, and put into a stewpan, with as much water as will cover them.

  • Our stay was not, however, sufficiently prolonged to enable us to take in as much water as we really needed, for the wind favoured a prosecution of our voyage.

  • When our ships had been careened, and we had taken in as much water as we needed, and had broken up the vessel which we had captured, we took our departure.

  • Having effected our landing, these men fled into the bush, and we took as much water as we wanted.

  • Beside this church we discovered a tank of the same workmanship as the church itself--that is, built of hewn stone--from which we took as much water as we needed.

  • Cut hard fruits into small pieces; add half as much water as fruit.

  • Raspberries and other berries should not be gathered after a rain, for they will have absorbed so much water as to make it difficult, without excessive boiling, to get the juice to "jell.

  • With less juicy fruits, as apples or quinces, use enough water to cover, or follow the rule, half as much water as fruit.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much water" 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:
    much account; much bound; much comfort; much cultivated; much delicacy; much delighted; much difficulty; much easier; much expedition; much extolled; much farther; much frequented; much greater; much harm; much higher; much interest; much misery; much mistaken; much nitrogen; much noise; much success; much talk; much that; much the; much time; much valued