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Example sentences for "poured over"

  • If the salmon is served cold, the tartare sauce is poured over it.

  • French or white sauce may be poured over it.

  • Then dish, on a folded napkin; or on a strainer, if sauce is poured over it.

  • Serve the partridges with the glaze poured over them.

  • Stir it into a pot of boiling water gradually.

  • Add sugar to the taste, and bake them in deep pie plates.

  • Sweeten it to the taste with nice brown sugar.

  • The book is a handsome one, as it ought to be.

  • If the asparagus is left whole, the sauce is poured over it after it is placed on the toast, but when it is cut into small pieces, it is usually combined with the sauce and the creamed vegetable then poured over the toast.

  • A dish of this kind is most satisfactory if it is served as soon as the sauce is poured over toast or wafers and before they have had time to become soaked.

  • In the making of this dessert, all juice should be carefully drained from the fruit before the junket is poured over it.

  • A little cream improves it if poured over it when placed in saucers.

  • Or cold vegetables may be merely chopped small, then tossed in a little butter, and some beaten and seasoned eggs poured over.

  • Savory Sauce or Vegetable Gravy may be poured over chopped or sliced trumese, and a nicely seasoned stuffing used for the crust, for a different pie.

  • Melted butter may be poured over mushrooms on toast instead of putting butter into them while broiling.

  • The liquid should be poured over it a few minutes before serving, to moisten it sufficiently for mastication.

  • It is generally burnt on the table, but the rum may be poured over in the kitchen.

  • The mixture must be poured over in sprinkling, and it must nearly cover the whole within about half an inch.

  • This sauce must be poured over whatever it is served with.

  • Often the best oil cannot be bought in a retired and rural neighbourhood.

  • The elderly can dance a quadrille without loss of breath or dignity.

  • It is the month of Mary, the Virgin, therefore Catholics object.

  • The guilty parties have then to tread on the place where the head is buried, and the turmeric and ash water is poured over them.

  • The pots are lifted up, and the water is poured over them.

  • Among the Vellur-nadu Kallans patterns are said [52] to be drawn on the back of the pregnant woman with rice-flour, and milk is poured over them.

  • Omelets are sometimes served with gravy; but this should never be poured over them, but served in a tureen, as the liquid causes the omelet to become heavy and flat, instead of eating light and soft.

  • When they are nearly done, squeeze the juice of a lemon over them, and serve on a dish, with Italian sauce (see Sauces) poured over.

  • The leaves are cut into small pieces, and they or the silver granules are put into a glass ampulla, and the aqua is poured over them to a height of a digit above the silver.

  • For each libra there is poured over it one-sixth of a libra of spring or river water, as to which, since this pertains to all these compounds, it is sufficient to have mentioned once for all.

  • Serve it up with melted butter, white wine and sugar, poured over it.

  • Also the greater number of times that boiling vinegar is poured over them, the sooner they will be ready for eating.

  • A more common way is to boil the mackarel after they are cleaned, and then to boil up some of the liquor with a few peppercorns, bay leaves, and a little vinegar; and when the fish is cold, the liquor is poured over them.

  • Have ready some suet dumplins the size of a walnut, and put them into a tureen, before the soup is poured over.

  • The acid, thinned down with thirty or forty parts of water, is poured over it.

  • When the plate has been cleansed thus of all surplus and blemishes, weak aquafortis is poured over it several times and then it is coated with gum.

  • When the stone has been properly etched, clean water is poured over it to wash away the free acid.

  • Then if it is inked-in after the design is finished, and if weak aquafortis is poured over it and it is prepared with gum, it will keep for several months.

  • The wine jelly, while still warm, is to be poured over bits of candied fruit laid in a ring mould.


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