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Example sentences for "then put"

  • When cold, roll into little balls about the size of an American walnut When the balls are all formed drop them into boiling water and cook gently five minutes; then put them in the soup tureen and pour the boiling stock on them.

  • Cut the veal into dice; roll these in the flour and fry brown in the ham fat; then put them in the soup pot.

  • Then put in the fish and cook as directed for plain boiling.

  • Season well with pepper and salt; then put in the eels and two bay leaves.

  • Pick it very carefully, and wash it thoroughly two or three times; then put it on in boiling water with a little salt; let it boil nearly twenty minutes.

  • TRUST IN WOMEN When these things following be done to our intent, Then put women in trust and confident.

  • Some good cooks say that bad butter may be purified in the following manner: Melt and skim it, then put into it a piece of well-toasted bread; in a few minutes the butter will lose its offensive taste and smell; the bread will absorb it all.

  • Cool it, and add half a pint of good yeast; after it has risen a few hours, thicken it with Indian meal stiff enough to roll out upon a board; then put it in the sun and air a few days to dry.

  • Wash it two or three times, soak it five or six hours; simmer it in the same water with bits of fresh lemon-peel until it becomes quite clear; then put in lemon juice, wine and loaf sugar.

  • Then put he the forefinger of the right hand in the like buckle of the left, but he put it under, and not over, as Panurge did.

  • Then put he it into the water, to see if the letter was written with the juice of tithymalle.

  • Then put it very fairly into a basinful of fresh water, and forthwith took it out, to see whether it were written with stone-alum.

  • To fry well put into your frying pan enough fat to cover what you mean to fry, and let it get smoking hot, but do not burn it; then put in your food, and it will not soak fat, and will generally be done by the time it is nicely browned.

  • He then put up a little telegraph line from the station to the village, a distance of about a mile, and opened an office in a drug store; but the business was naturally very small.

  • I then put up a long shaft, connecting all the governors together, and thought this would certainly cure the trouble; but it didn't.

  • I then put men on it I could trust, and made the preliminary machinery.

  • Rub the venison with salt, pepper, vinegar, cloves and allspice; then put in a baking-pan.

  • Make a rich biscuit dough; roll out; then put on a well-buttered baking-tin.

  • Make a soft biscuit dough; then put on a well-floured baking-board and roll out one-half inch thick.

  • Cut a fat chicken into pieces at the joints; season with all kinds of condiments; then put in a deep saucepan.

  • Then put on the bolster and the under sheet, so that the wrong side of the sheet shall go next the bed, and the marking come at the head, tucking in all around.

  • Then put on the other covering, except the outer one, tucking in all around, and then turn over the upper sheet, at the head, so as to show a part of the pillows.

  • Then put on a second coat, and at the end of another fortnight, a third coat.

  • Then put on the pillows, even, so that the open ends shall come to the sides of the bed, and then spread on the upper sheet, so that the wrong side shall be next the blankets, and the marked end at the head.

  • When the war was coming on they had the servants dig holes, then put rock on bottom, then planks, then put tin and iron vessels with money and silver, then put plank, then rocks and cover with dirt and plant grass on top.

  • Then you lathe the rafters and then put boards on top of the rafters.

  • Then put in a tub with a handful of salt and a quarter of a gallon of vinegar.

  • Let stand for ten minutes and then put in a dash of Jamaica rum.

  • Cover the bottom of a saucepan with olive oil, place over the fire until quite hot, then put in the garlic, parsley, and mushrooms, add half a can of tomatoes and cook half an hour.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then put" 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:
    profound darkness; social workers; sufficiently large; then asked; then bottle; then commanded; then down; then drop; then expanded; then fell; then fill; then found; then gave; then held; then ordered; then pass; then place; then return; then sent; then spoke; then started; then sweeten; then taken; then the priest shall pronounce him; then turn; then work