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Example sentences for "then boil"

  • Rub a hind-quarter with saltpetre and common salt, let it lie ten days, then boil it, and put either carrots or parsnips under it.

  • Cut up a head of celery and remove all the green parts, then boil it in good stock and add two ounces of rice, and boil till it is well cooked.

  • Then boil as many eggs as you want hard; take out the yolks, but keep them whole.

  • Soak a smoked tongue in fresh water for forty-eight hours, then boil it till it is tender.

  • Then boil it, uncovered, in a porcelain kettle, skimming and stirring well, till it is very thick and smooth.

  • Then boil it five minutes, and add a small pint of water.

  • Then boil them in an uncovered porcelain kettle, taking off the scum carefully.

  • Soak a cup of tapioca in a pint of cold water over night; then boil it in a pint of milk with a little salt.

  • Sprinkle the sugar upon the fruit, and let it stand an hour or two; then boil it twenty minutes, and meantime bruise the fruit with a spoon or ladle.

  • In a few minutes set it off the fire and stir it well till the chocolate is dissolved; then boil it again gently a few minutes, pour it into a bowl, and set it in a cool place.

  • Then boil it in four pints and a half of water, until it be reduced one half.

  • This may easily be done, by grinding or beating the seeds of white poppies into a paste, then boil it in water, and skim off the oil as it rises; one bushel of seed weighs fifty pounds, and produces two gallons of oil.

  • Mix wheaten flour first in cold water, then boil it till it be of a glutinous consistence; this method makes common paste.

  • Soften good glue in water, then boil it with strong vinegar and thicken the liquid, during boiling, with fine wheat flour, so that a paste results; or starch paste with which a little Venice turpentine has been incorporated while it was warm.

  • Wash on the bottle, soaping and rinsing well, then boil in soft water.

  • Let it stand until it dissolves; then boil it until it is perfectly clear and threads from the spoon.

  • After being scoured, should be soaked in salt and water seven or eight days, changing the water every other day, then boil it till tender, which will take eight or ten hours.

  • Weigh the liquor, and to each pint of it put a pound of white sugar--then boil it slowly till it becomes a thick jelly, which is ascertained in the same manner as currant jelly.

  • Soak it over night in soft water, then boil it an hour, and strain the water in which it is boiled.

  • The water should not boil, but kept just below boiling for an hour; then boil up for 5 minutes before taking out and washing.

  • Then boil up with sufficient quantity of the lichen till the desired colour is got.

  • Put madder into water and when hot dip in cotton for A1/2 hour, keeping it under boiling point, then boil up for A1/4 hour and wash.

  • Before they are boiled, at Christmas or later, steep them in half milk, half water, for twelve or fourteen hours; then boil them as if fresh gathered.

  • Then boil it gently for a full half hour in plenty of water.

  • Let them stand at least six or seven hours; then boil them on a slow fire till they are clear and tender.

  • Stew gently with onions and different herbs, till all the juice of the meat is extracted; then boil it quicker, till it begins to stick to the dish.

  • Then boil in weak alum water until transparent.

  • Soak 2 tablespoons sago in a tumbler of water an hour or more, then boil in same until clear.

  • If you want to use it immediately, then boil it to 222 degrees.

  • Then take a little more Sugar than they weigh, then take as much Apple water and Sugar as will make a Syrup for them, then boil them as you do your Pippins, and Pot them as you do the Pippins likewise, &c.

  • Then boil them on a very quick Fire, and they will become of a green Colour, fit to be potted so soon as cold.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then boil" 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:
    maintain them; then another; then asked; then began; then being; then bottle; then draw; then fell; then fold; then gave; then given; then glanced; then heated; then lift; then like; then living; then returned; then sent; then shall they know; then sweeten; then thou; then transferred; then were; then will; thence will; travelling libraries