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Example sentences for "perfectly clean"

  • Pick over the rice, rinse it in cold water a number of times, to get it perfectly clean; drain off the water, then put it in a pot of boiling water, with a little salt.

  • For broiling, the bars of the gridiron should be perfectly clean, and greased with lard or butter, otherwise the meat will retain the impression of the bars.

  • Let it remain several hours, then dip in a perfectly clean sponge, and rub the marble with it till clean.

  • Strain some boiling water into a frying-pan, which must also be perfectly clean.

  • Take it out, wipe it dry, and with a crash cloth or whisk broom rub the hair off, brushing from the tail to the head, until the skin is perfectly clean.

  • Take up with the half-dried brush any drops of water that may hang under the edge of your sketching frame, which should, of course, be perfectly clean.

  • Keep it perfectly clean, and trust solely to the natural contraction of the threads when wet, to thicken up and tighten the material so as to render it for all practical purposes nearly waterproof.

  • Be sure that your knife, razor, or whatever implement is used is perfectly clean (sterilized) and avoid drawing blood.

  • Everything used must be perfectly clean or child-bed fever may be caused by these measures.

  • Rub it on with a soft rag and wipe off with a perfectly clean duster.

  • When thoroughly soaked, take it out, see that it is perfectly clean, and put it in the fish-kettle with sufficient cold water to cover it.

  • If the drop be not too large, and the covers be perfectly clean, the blood will spread out in a very thin layer.

  • The simplest method is to place a drop of blood upon a perfectly clean slide, and to draw a needle through it at half-minute intervals.

  • She should be in health, free from scorbutic or scrofulous taints, from cutaneous scurf, or eruptions, perfectly clean in her person, and extremely neat in her management of whatever concerns the child.

  • Till it has been made perfectly clean, no picture should be re-varnished; otherwise the fresh varnish will work up the dirt, and make it look worse than ever.

  • Then shovel out all the coals and sweep the oven floor with a broom, till it is perfectly clean, and entirely free from ashes.

  • The griddle must be perfectly clean; and while you are baking, it will require frequent scraping, with a broad knife.

  • When the meat has been all extracted, scrape and wash the large back shell of the turtle till it is perfectly clean.

  • If the pan is perfectly clean, and the butter is not allowed to burn, they will have a bright clean color.

  • In making good soup the first essential is a perfectly clean pot.

  • Impress the necessity of clean utensils, being particular that every saucepan used is perfectly clean on the outside as well as the inside.

  • Then dip the sheet in clean water, and then having spread it on a perfectly clean table, remove the soap lightly with a hog's hair brush or a fine sponge; all the mud will disappear at the same time.

  • To ensure a perfectly clean joint the pasted edge should not be touched with the hand, and pasting-paper, brushes, and paste must be perfectly clean.

  • The knocking-down iron should be covered with a piece of paper, and the hammer face must be perfectly clean, or the sheets may be soiled.

  • Now, for instance, how long will it take you to let me have a perfectly clean copy of that?

  • Now, what I require are copies of these papers; you understand, copies--perfectly clean copies.

  • I told you that I had not used a machine recently; I fear, therefore, that I may be rather awkward at first, so that I can hardly tell how long it will take me to let you have a perfectly clean copy of this.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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