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Example sentences for "small handful"

  • It is hardly possible to give exact directions for making this blancmange, owing to the difficulty of accurately measuring the moss, but in general, a small handful will be ample for a quart of milk.

  • For each cup of coffee required, steep a small handful in boiling water for ten or fifteen minutes, strain and serve.

  • The spinach must be well washed, then throw a small handful of salt into a saucepan of boiling water, before the spinach is put in, and press it down as it boils.

  • Put them into a tin stewpan with as much water as will cover them; add a small handful of salt, and boil them over a quick fire.

  • Put in a vessel with three quarts of water, a ham bone, a bouquet garni, and a small handful of salt.

  • Put two Tahoe trout in a vessel in cold water, add one-half glassful of white wine vinegar, half of an onion and half of a carrot sliced, a bouquet garni, and a small handful of salt.

  • Prepare bath by using one gallon of clear cold water, add to that a small handful of starch, powdered or lump starch will answer.

  • Prepare bath as follows: Take one gallon of luke warm water, more or less, according to the quantity of feathers you have to dye add a small handful of starch.

  • To three pints of water put a small handful of hops, or if they are in compact pound papers, as put up by the Shakers, half a handful; boil them about half an hour.

  • Boil a small handful each of hops and boneset for an hour or two, in a pailful of water; strain it, and dilute it with cold water till it is of the right strength.

  • Chop very fine a small handful of parsley, shallots, and chives; and proceed as for making a caper-sauce, except that you use the chopped spices instead of capers.

  • Take two tails, wash clean, and put in a kettle with nearly a gallon of cold water; add a small handful of salt; when the meat is well cooked, take out the bones.

  • Break the eggs and throw a small handful of the sugar on them as soon as you begin beating; keep adding it at intervals until it is all used up.

  • On the bricks sat a billy-can full of water just on the boil, and, as it bubbled up, Grizzel threw in a small handful of tea, giving it a stir round with a cherry twig.

  • Take of balm and burrage a small handful each, put this into a jug, pour in upon the herbs a quart of boiling water, allow the tea to stand for ten minutes, and then strain it off into another jug, and let it become cold.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small handful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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