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Example sentences for "scant half"

  • Stir until smooth and slightly thickened; season with a scant half a teaspoonful of paprica, one-fourth a teaspoonful of salt and a few drops of tabasco sauce.

  • To one cup of kornlet add two well-beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls of flour, a scant half teaspoonful of salt and a dash of paprica.

  • Add a table-spoonful of salt, a scant teaspoonful of pepper, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, half a teaspoonful of powdered sage, one of summer savory and a scant half cupful of butter.

  • Salt to taste, add a scant half teaspoon of paprika, half a cup of hot water and simmer an hour longer, keeping covered closely all the time.

  • Have ready a scant half teacup of sago soaked one hour in water enough to cover.

  • Boil a scant half cup of rice in salted water half an hour, drain well, and measure out four heaping tablespoonfuls of it into a mixing bowl.

  • Half a pint of sweet milk, a scant half pint of flour, two rounded teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a small pinch of salt, stir all together; this should make a batter as thick as that of cake.

  • The cabbage needs a table-spoonful of salt added to the water and a scant half tea-spoonful of soda.

  • Molly saw Marta start right, then she poured out a table-spoonful of oil and a half one of vinegar, a salt-spoonful of salt, and a scant half one of pepper.

  • A very little cream of tartar (a scant half saltspoonful to a pound of sugar) added at the beginning makes the sugar less liable to grain.

  • Place in a copper or a graniteware saucepan two cupfuls of granulated sugar, one cupful of water, and a scant half saltspoonful of cream of tartar.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scant half" 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:
    boil together; certain height; chopped small; colored eyes; economic production; fine fresh; good understanding; good usage; gypsy girl; having faith; heraldic term; little table; make her; much earlier; personal appearance; proper noun; said huskily; scant half; scant rainfall; scanty supply; sharp turn; violent pain; water over; week from