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Example sentences for "place the"

  • Place these sandwiches under a broiler or in a very hot oven and toast them on both sides, or omit the butter from the center, place the sandwiches in a slightly oiled frying pan, and brown them on both sides.

  • Place the eggs in tall stone crocks or kegs with their pointed ends turned down, filling the receptacles to within a few inches of the top.

  • Place the rack or invert the perforated pie tin in the bottom of the vessel, and on it place the bottles of milk from which the caps have not been removed.

  • To make this test, place the fat in a tablespoon or a small dish and heat it directly over the flame until it boils, stirring it occasionally to assist in the melting.

  • Just before serving, pour a spoonful or two of any desired salad dressing over this or place the salad on the table and serve the dressing, allowing each person to take what is desired.

  • Garnish a salad bowl or salad plates with lettuce, place the salad on the lettuce, and then garnish with slices of hard-cooked egg.

  • Place the slices in very cold water to make them crisp.

  • After the peeling has all been removed, place the cucumber on a board and cut it into thin slices.

  • Place the rounds of pineapple on salad plates garnished with lettuce, and put the cheese ball in the center of the pineapple.

  • Place the tomatoes in a kettle and boil thirty minutes.

  • Place the bird so the back of the head is toward the operator, cut through the neck bone with a sharp knife but do not cut the windpipe or gullet.

  • Place the tomatoes in a wire basket or piece of cheesecloth and plunge into boiling water for one and a half minutes.

  • Place the peppers in the oven and bake them until the skins separate from the meat.

  • Place the berries in a strainer and pour cold water over them to cleanse them.

  • A very common method is to place the eggs in a mixture of clay and water; the clay hardens around the eggs, and is said to preserve them good for a considerable time.

  • Next mix the pure chloride of silver while yet moist with its own weight of pure crystallized carbonate of soda, place the mixture in a covered porcelain crucible and heat very gradually until the fusing point of silver is reached.

  • Bernouin entered, followed by the gentleman, who had orders from the king to place the letter in the hands of the cardinal himself.

  • And then, in addition to being better lighted and eating what we prefer, I place the pleasure of your company.

  • You will be good enough to place the money in a chest, and direct one of your clerks to accompany the chest, and without my servants seeing him; and order him to wait for me in a carriage.

  • Place the money on that trunk," said he, turning round and pointing to the piece of furniture.

  • It seems, therefore, to be a grievous wrong to place the earth, which is a sink of impurity, among these heavenly bodies, which are pure and divine things.

  • He clinched the matter by the usual reference to the first verse of the ninety-third Psalm, and asked, "Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

  • Place the thousand to my credit, and I shall return what is left.

  • Lord Donal has done me the honour to place the case in my hands.

  • It was the object of those favoring unity, but with more decision than in 1848, to place the group of German states under Prussia's imperial direction.

  • In order to place the army in the condition which Thiers desired, an increase in the military budget was necessary, and consequently an enhancement of the general revenues of the state.

  • Every one naturally looked for the fomenter of this frightful international conflict and was disposed to place the blame on the basis of rumor and personal feeling.

  • Place the solutions in burettes (the iodine in a glass-stoppered burette), observing the usual precautions.

  • Place the crucible on a triangle and raise the temperature !

  • Place the crucible in the funnel, and apply a gentle suction, !

  • All preparations will also be complete to place the railroad-stock back of Kinston on the one road, and below the Northeast Branch on the other.

  • Steep fertile hill Sides near this place the radix is fibrous, not much branched, annual, woody, white and nearly Smooth.

  • Place the whites (which you should have cut longways) on a hot dish, and pour over them the puree of sorrel; sprinkle the top with breadcrumbs, and put bits of butter on it also.

  • Place the dish in an oven with a gentle heat for half-an-hour, watching how it cooks.

  • After that, place the beef on an oval dish; keep it hot; stir two tablespoonfuls of demi-glaze into the vegetables and let it boil up.

  • Place the dish in the oven for at least an hour, and, when you serve it, sprinkle over the carrots some minced parsley.

  • Place the pan on the fire for two or three minutes to start the cooking, then cover it closely, and finish the cooking by placing it in the oven for fifty minutes.

  • The generating chamber must be filled with the proper amount of water before any attempt is made to place the carbide in its holder.

  • Place the iron in the flame and allow it to remain until the copper becomes very hot, not quite red, but almost so.

  • The obvious and necessary effect of this last proposition would be practically to place the execution of the treaty beyond the control of the United States.

  • The Commission may certify from the clerk register for appointment to a place the salary of which is less than $1,000 per annum any eligible on said register who has given written notice that he will accept such a place.

  • That a person who has been appointed from the copyist register wishes to take the clerk examination for promotion to a place the salary of which is not less than $1,000 per annum.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "place the" 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:
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