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Example sentences for "poured upon"

  • Libations should always be poured upon a blazing fire.

  • If a quantity of water be poured upon salt, the latter immediately dissolves away.

  • As the sacred fire waits for libations to be poured upon it when the hour for Homa arrives, even so a woman, when her functional period is over, expects an act of congress with her husband.

  • With celery and endive the sauce should be poured upon them, and the whole well stirred together to mix it equally.

  • The starch now obtained must be rendered marketable; for which purpose, as much water is poured upon it as will enable it to be pounded and broken up with a shovel, and then the tub is filled up with fair water.

  • If the water wherein mushrooms have been steeped or washed be poured upon an old bed, or if the broken parts of mushrooms be strewed thereon, there will speedily arise great numbers.

  • Be sure that water boils before it is poured upon tea.

  • Lay a large heap of clay near the house, and let the salt-brine that may be done with in the family be poured upon it.

  • When alcohol is poured upon yeast, it immediately destroys its fermenting faculties, though, on filtering it off, it seems to carry no remarkable principle with it.

  • In proportion as the solution proceeds, more beer must be poured upon it, but it need not be so acidulous as the first, because, when once well softened by the vinegar, it readily dissolves.

  • When the precipitate is completely separated, a fresh portion of the vitriol solution is to be poured upon it in a copper pan, and is made to boil, in order to wash it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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