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Example sentences for "skewers"

Lexicographically close words:
skew; skewbald; skewed; skewer; skewered; skid; skidded; skidding; skids; skidway
  1. Roll and skewer it up firmly; place a few skewers at the bottom of a stewpan to prevent the meat from sticking, and cover the veal with a little weak stock.

  2. The skewers should be removed, and replaced by a silver one, and the dish garnished with slices of cut lemon.

  3. A little should be poured over the fowls, after the skewers are removed, and the remainder sent in a tureen to table.

  4. Remove strings and skewers and serve on hot platter.

  5. The average number of skewers delivered daily with the provender, by each dogs'-meat cart or barrow, was thirty-six.

  6. Now, multiplying the number of skewers so delivered by the number of barrows, a total of sixty-two thousand seven hundred and forty- eight skewers daily would be obtained.

  7. Tie the skewers of the chops with pink and green ribbons and have the ice cream one layer of pistachio and one of strawberry.

  8. One of these skewers fell upon a ledge of stone some few yards in front of the spot where we were standing, and Holman stepped toward it.

  9. The darkness of the Cavern of Skulls had been relieved by the silver skewers of moonlight, but in the night that rolled around us there was not a single gleam of light.

  10. Yes, Nat, a trogon; and these little bamboo skewers tell me directly that the birds came from somewhere in the East.

  11. A stout stick and the bundles of skewers lay beside him.

  12. He came up to the kitchen-door, and steps inside as bold as brass, asking me to buy some wooden skewers he'd cut, and saying something about a sick child.

  13. But I saw what Tod in his haste did not see--a dark man with some bundles of skewers and a stout stick, walking on the other side of the hedge.

  14. For a small model wooden meat skewers may be used as sticks.

  15. Wooden skewers are useful for axles of all kinds.

  16. One or two skewers may be stuck in each sweetbread.

  17. When served in any way as described above, one or two or more skewers may be run through craw-fish and a slice of truffle, and stuck in the meat, or through sweetbreads au jus, and slices of truffles.

  18. When served with any of the above sauces, it may be decorated with skewers the same as boiled beef.

  19. It is placed on the dish lying on its belly, the skewers and twine are removed, and a few sprigs of parsley are placed in its mouth.

  20. Dish the meat, place half a dozen quenelles around it, and decorate it with skewers which you have run through a quenelle and then through a craw-fish and stuck in the meat.

  21. Run some skewers through slices or truffles and whole mushrooms, and plant them in it like the one represented in the cut on the following page.

  22. Fill as many skewers as are necessary till the whole kidney is used; and then roast before a good fire, basting often with melted butter.

  23. Two skewers only for a chicken make a fine decoration.

  24. Skewers are never used with fish in vinaigrette, or when the fish is cut in pieces.

  25. William set down his plane, picked up an odd scrap of wood and cut out the skewers with his pocket-knife; while Naomi watched with a smile on her face.

  26. The skewers finished, he walked out through the house with her and down the garden-path, carrying the basket as far as the gate.

  27. A turkey having been relieved from strings and skewers used in trussing should be placed on the table with the head or neck at the carver's right hand.

  28. Roll up the slices, pinning with little skewers or small wooden toothpicks to keep the dressing in.

  29. With a long skewer fasten the two ends of the beef together, so that its form will be circular, and bind it around with tape to prevent the skewers giving way.

  30. Laughingly they drank this toast; and the skewers were filled a second time.

  31. Two of the hide ropes are now let down from the roof, and twisted round the skewers on the breast or shoulders.

  32. The skewers by which he is suspended to the roof are removed when he is lowered, but eight still remain; two in each arm, and two in each leg.

  33. Having satisfied themselves that their victim is not feigning, they give a signal; he is lowered to the ground; the skewers which passed through his breast are removed, and the ropes attached to another candidate.

  34. Mr. Catlin supplies two illustrations of the rigorous tenacity with which the Indians adhere to the rule that the skewers must be dragged, not removed, from the sufferer's flesh.

  35. Sometimes the neophyte's flesh proves to be so tough that the skewers cannot be dragged out, and in such cases their friends jump on the skulls as they rattle along the ground, so as to increase their weight.

  36. Among all this thick, floating plumage were interspersed small bladders, and skewers or pins wrought out of tusks.

  37. Note: Every part of the plant is dangerously poisonous, and death has occured from using its wood for skewers in cooking meat.

  38. Meat well stuck with skewers to make it look round.

  39. The men make the skewers and sell them at prices varying from one shilling to two shillings per stone; the wood for the skewers they do not always buy.

  40. Skewers were thrust through the loose flesh of the dancer's chest, thongs attached, and the dancer thereby hauled up toward the roof of the council lodge until his body was six or eight feet off the ground.

  41. Often other skewers were thrust through the skin of the back, and weights attached by thongs and allowed to drag over the floor of the lodge as the dancer swung about the pole.

  42. In the arid weather of summer a moist cloth needs to be applied to it from time to time, to prevent its drying too suddenly; immediately after which the skewers require to be tightened.

  43. In order to stretch the skin upon the frame, larger or smaller skewers are employed, according as a greater or smaller piece of it is to be laid hold of.

  44. Six holes are made in a straight line to receive the larger, and four to receive the smaller skewers or pins.

  45. G, as also the slot-bearings for carrying the shafts or skewers of the bobbins.

  46. The roller pair C, which receives the fine rovings from bobbins placed on skewers or upright pins in the creel behind, is so mounted as to be fixed at any desired distance from the front rollers F.

  47. J, upright skewers of iron wire, whose tops bent down hook-wise, naturally place themselves over the little bars K.

  48. He mounts the skin upon a frame like the herse above described; but he extends it merely with cords, without skewers or pins, and supports it generally upon a piece of raw calfskin, strongly stretched.

  49. I, I, wherein the horizontal spindles or skewers rest, upon which the bobbins revolve.

  50. The blocks being of a large size, would be productive of much friction, if made to revolve upon skewers thrust through them, and would cause frequent breakage of the silk.

  51. A, shews the Legs as they ought to be tied, and O O Directs to the Points of the Skewers which are to run through it.

  52. The average number of skewers delivered daily with the provender, by each cart or barrow, was thirty-six.

  53. Now multiplying the number of skewers so delivered, by the number of barrows, a total of sixty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-eight skewers daily, would be obtained.

  54. But often fearful realities are to be seen--men who in a frenzied state catch cannon balls upon their heads, blood spurting out on every side; or, who stick skewers through their legs.

  55. These the other threads on skewers in alternate layers, three or four of each.

  56. String on small steel skewers with small squares of bacon alternating.

  57. Remove the skewers and serve on a hot plate, garnished with parsley.

  58. It's as much as they can keep all tight and snug now; but them skewers nor no others can tie a greater bulk than we have.

  59. I shall sew it with a trussing needle and a cord, or you might accomplish the same purpose, by using skewers, putting the skewers just where I put the cords.

  60. That leaves a solid piece of meat which offers no difficulty in carving; you can either fasten it in shape by tying a string around it or by running a few skewers through it.

  61. The better way is to tie it with a string, because the skewers will make holes and permit the juice to escape.

  62. Now, multiplying the number of skewers so delivered, by the number of barrows, a total of sixty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-eight skewers daily would be obtained.

  63. In the fury of the gale the skewers that secured the blanket gave way; overboard went the progeny of the virgin body-guard; and the young Mac Caunthca reached the mainland with a single son, the heir-presumptive to the throne of Torry.

  64. The average number of skewers delivered daily with the provender, by each dogs'-meat cart or barrow was thirty-six.


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