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Example sentences for "stand them"

  • Keep in the ice box or stand them in cold water until needed.

  • Stand them in an earthen baking dish, pour around them a cup of boiling water, add 2 tbsps.

  • Stand them in the bottom of a granite kettle, sprinkle thickly with sugar, cover the bottom of the kettle with boiling water, cover closely and allow the apples to steam on the back part of the stove till tender.

  • Scarcely knowing what he did, yet with an indefinable terror at his heart, he grasped and shook her by the arm, and again, but with greater vehemence, pronounced her name.

  • Mrs. Sparks of Paris; or, The Crime at Vintimiglia.

  • De Courcy and Grantham, having abandoned their horses, now bore their beloved leader to the side of the road, and sought some spot out of reach of the enemy's fire, where he might breathe his last moments in peace.

  • Having washed and scraped the salsify roots, and cut off the extreme joints, stand them up and grate them.

  • Having thus wrapped up the loaves, stand them on end to cool slowly.

  • Stand them up successively in a deep dish, and grate them from the rind.

  • Stand them on end around the outside of a cylindrical mold, and carefully stick the edges together with sugar cooked to the crack, or with royal icing (see page 483).

  • Stand them in rows, each one plainly labeled, that no time may be lost in searching for the article needed.

  • As soon as the glaze appears remove them from the oven, and if not sufficiently cooked, stand them for a minute on the top of the range.

  • Wash them separately in cold water, and then with the water still remaining about the surface of the apples, stand them up in a deep baking-dish, but do not place them so near each other as to touch.

  • Stand them in the cream sauce, dust on top of each a little chopped parsley and send to the table.

  • Put a tablespoonful of butter in the bottom of a shallow platter; when melted break in the eggs, stand them in the oven until "set," garnish with the livers and mushrooms and pour over the sauce.

  • Stand them away to cool and serve them with cream.

  • Stand them in a cool place, when perfectly cold strain off the water, and sweeten it to the taste.

  • Stand them in the sun for two or three days, when they are soft pass them through a sieve, and put the pulp, thus drained out, over the fire to boil.

  • Stand them in boiling water in a porcelain kettle, and cook gently for about twenty minutes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stand them" 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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