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Example sentences for "sweet potato"

  • The kumara or sweet potato is a most useful root.

  • We passed over the hill, and found the assailants feasting on the kumara, or sweet potato, which they just pulled up from the garden at which they had landed.

  • Black rot is one of the worst of sweet potato diseases.

  • When we first entered we each received something over a quart of tolerably good meal, a sweet potato, a piece of meat about the size of one's two fingers, and occasionally a spoonful of salt.

  • Before our inspection was finished, a wagon drove in with rations, and a quart of meal, a sweet potato and a few ounces of salt beef were issued to each one of us.

  • Sweet potato, melon, squash, and cucumber vines are examples of such plants.

  • You doubtless know that manure from the horse stable is often used to furnish heat for hotbeds and for sweet potato beds.

  • Get together some slices of white potato, sweet potato, parsnip, broken kernels of corn, wheat and oats, a piece of laundry starch and some tincture of iodine diluted to about the color of weak tea.

  • Plant a sweet potato or place it with the lower end in a tumbler of water and set it in a warm room.

  • Sweet Potato Custard: Boil tender two large or four medium sweet potatoes, peel, free of strings, and mash fine.

  • Sweet Potato Pie: Line a deep pie pan with short crust rolled a quarter-inch thick, fill it with raw sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced thin.

  • Sweet Potato Pudding: Beat four eggs very light with four cups sugar and one cup creamed butter.

  • During all this period he is not allowed to come out of the house, at all events not so as to be seen, and his diet is confined to sweet potato, cooked in a certain way.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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