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Example sentences for "small family"

  • One-half this recipe might be used for a small family.

  • One-half of this recipe would be sufficient for a small family.

  • Half this quantity will be enough for a small family.

  • One-half this quantity will serve a small family.

  • It will make an excellent plain dinner for a small family, with the addition of a dish or two of new potatos, if they are in season.

  • The above quantities will furnish cakes only for a small family.

  • The prime piece of beef for roasting is the sirloin; but being too large for a small family, the ribs are generally preferred, when there are but few persons to eat of it.

  • When in season, it can be bought in any quantity by the pound, for a small family.

  • BEEF, Roast Ribs of, Boned and Rolled (a very convenient Joint for a small Family).

  • BEEF, Miniature Round of (an excellent Dish for a small Family).

  • Half a calf’s head is as frequently served as a whole one, it being a more convenient-sized joint for a small family.

  • Half the quantity of any of the following recipes will be sufficient for a small family, but care must be taken in measurement to use only the exact half.

  • Half the above quantities will be sufficient for a small family.

  • For a small family 1 pint of cream will be sufficient.

  • For a small family ½ the above quantities will suffice.

  • For a small family, a part of the loin should be purchased, a little stuffing of sage and finely minced onion introduced, and the joint cooked in a slightly greased bag, allowing twenty-five minutes to each pound.

  • Two pounds and a half or three pounds of loin of lamb will make a sufficient dinner for a small family of three or four persons, and leave enough cold to serve for supper.

  • Paper-bag cookery should appeal especially to the caterer for a small family.

  • ROAST RIBS OF BEEF, Boned and Rolled (a very Convenient Joint for a Small Family).

  • Half a calf's head is as frequently served as a whole one, it being a more convenient-sized joint for a small family.

  • The Limacodidae are a small family of brownish nocturnal moths, allied to the Zygaenidae and agreeing with them in the structure of the pupa.

  • The Cossidae are a small family of large moths (figs.

  • The Castniidae are a small family of large, conspicuous, day-flying exotic moths (fig.

  • In a loin, as cut in Boston, there are seven ribs, which make a good roast for a small family.

  • The end next the ribs gives the smallest pieces, which are best for a small family.

  • Eight or ten pounds is a good size for a small family.

  • In this way, even a small family of bees will hatch, and get rid of all the eggs that happen to be in their combs, and not be destroyed.

  • The first eggs are deposited in the centre of the cluster of bees, in a small family; it may not be in the centre of the hive in all cases; but the middle of the cluster is the warmest place, wherever located.

  • A small family able to get through the winter and spring, may be expected by another year to be as numerous as any.

  • Make half the quantity for a small family.

  • The back part of the rump is a convenient and economical piece, especially for a small family.

  • Make half the measure for a small family.

  • For a small family, bake it in two dishes, an hour; and reserve one for another day.

  • Because have a small family, and I have more responsibility.

  • I have a small family, and there is a great quantity of bread to buy, and clothes and everything.

  • Yes; but it was always going on, as I had a small family, and they were needing bread.

  • Half of this recipe is sufficient for a small family.

  • Half or a third of the quantity is sufficient for a small family.

  • Half, or even a third, of this quantity is sufficient for a small family.

  • Half this recipe is sufficient for a small family.

  • The Evermannellidæ is a small family of small deep-sea fishes with large teeth, distensible muscles, and an extraordinary power of swallowing other fishes, scarcely surpassed by Chiasmodon or Saccopharynx.

  • We may append to the Percesoces, for want of a better place, a small family of the deep sea, its affinities at present unknown.

  • The Lactariidæ constitute a small family of the East Indies, allied to the Sciænidæ, but with three anal spines.

  • It is the type of the Acropomidæ, a small family of the Pacific.

  • Veal is one of the most convenient things to have for a small family, as it warms over in a variety of ways, and in some is actually better than when put on the table as a joint.

  • Yet how difficult it is to have gravy always on hand every mistress of a small family knows, in spite of the constant advice to "save your trimming to make stock.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small family" 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:
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