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Example sentences for "pretty thick"

  • When the syrup is pretty thick take it off, and when cold wipe the cucumbers dry, and put them in.

  • When half done, add half a pound of sugar, the orange peel and juice, and boil all together till it is pretty thick.

  • Mix unslaked lime in finest powder with stringent soap-ley, pretty thick, and instantly with a painter's brush lay it on the whole of the marble.

  • Feed them with this in the day-time, but not too much at once; let it be pretty thick.

  • Boil any quantity of potatoes, bruise them, and pour on them boiling water until a pretty thick mixture is obtained, which is to be passed through a sieve; then mix whiting with boiling water, and add it to the potato mixture.

  • Cut French bread, and toast it in pretty thick toasts on a clean gridiron, and serve them steeped in claret, sack, or any wine, with sugar and juyce of orange.

  • Afterwards there is formed upon the surface a pretty thick mouldiness, which is to be removed dexterously in one pellicle by a slip of whalebone.

  • In Scotland there is a cake called short bread, made from a pretty thick dough, enriched with butter, sweetened with sugar, and seasoned with orange peel, or other kinds of spices.

  • This is to be covered with a pretty thick stratum of the charcoal, previously freed from dirt and dust by washing; upon which a piece of close canvass is to be spread, and pressed down by a thin bed of river sand.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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