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Example sentences for "scummed"

Lexicographically close words:
sculpturing; sculpturings; sculus; scum; scumbling; scumming; scunner; scup; scupper; scuppered
  1. Put the barm, you have scummed off (which will be at least a quart) to about two gallons of the wort, and stir it to make that rise and work.

  2. Then boil it gently, skimming it all the while, till all the scum be perfectly scummed off; and after that boil it a little longer, peradventure a quarter of an hour.

  3. But boil it not to bear an Egge, but onely till it be well scummed and clarified.

  4. The pot must be well scummed before the herbs are put in.

  5. Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and scummed over.

  6. That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.

  7. Carefully he dipped the bowl into the green-scummed water and, moving it gently, let trailing streamers of submerged water weeds drift into it.

  8. It lay there quiet in the sunlight, green-scummed and walled with stiff rank grass, a lone dragonfly swooping and wheeling above it.

  9. The night's milk is scummed in the morning at daybreak, when the cows are milked again, and the new milk mixed with the old.

  10. Below them lay the moat, green-scummed and starred with water-lilies; throbbing in the midday haze, the emerald sward of the parkland seemed to float.

  11. Out of sight, in the green-scummed moat, a fish leapt with a sullen splash.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scummed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.