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Example sentences for "thickens"

Lexicographically close words:
thicke; thicken; thickened; thickening; thickenings; thicker; thickest; thicket; thicketed; thickets
  1. Old oil thickens and then shows an acid reaction.

  2. The oil thickens in the air and readily forms resin.

  3. The oil is colorless or yellowish, it thickens on exposure to the air, and dissolves and reduces fuchsine: Caraway oil.

  4. The green oil thickens in the air and is dextrorotatory: Wormwood oil.

  5. Then mash the berries to a pulp, and continue to cook until the mixture thickens and the juice tests as for jelly.

  6. Cook until the mixture thickens and tests as for jelly.

  7. Cook until it thickens (about half an hour), stirring frequently; then add the butter, sugar and salt.

  8. Place the bowl in a basin of boiling water, and stir the dressing until it thickens like soft custard.

  9. Stir this into the boiling mixture, and stir until it thickens like soft custard, which will be in about fire minutes.

  10. Light thickens and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.

  11. As the shadow momently thickens or thins in the absence or the presence of the yellowish-green light, the massive structures are shown or hid, and the meaner houses render the rifts between more impressively chasmal.

  12. No doubt it thickens the constant damp, and lends mass and viscosity to the fog; but it is over-blamed and under-praised.

  13. Now add, one teaspoonful at a time, the olive oil; beat continually until the mixture thickens (after 8 teaspoons of oil have been added).

  14. To ascertain when it is sufficiently boiled, pour a little on a plate, and if the syrup thickens and appears firm, it is done.

  15. On the moist earth there is the print of a hare's pad; here is a foxglove out in flower; and now as the incline rises heather thickens on the slope.

  16. Round and round in the pocket brings out the perspiration, and the dust of the hops gets into the air-passages and thickens on the skin of his face.

  17. Stir constantly until it thickens and then divide into 2 baked pie crusts and cover with a meringue made of whites of eggs.

  18. Stir over fire until it thickens and comes to boiling point.

  19. Bring to a boil; cook 3 to 5 minutes until mixture thickens and becomes slightly reduced, stirring frequently.

  20. Drain juices into a small saucepan; blend cornstarch and water; stir into pan juices and cook, over medium heat, stirring constantly, one minute or until sauce thickens and clears.

  21. Continue cooking at HIGH 1 to 2 minutes or until mixture thickens and boils for 1 minute.

  22. Beat these well together, add three more eggs, and simmer the whole over the fire, till it thickens almost to a paste.

  23. Heat it over the fire till it thickens a little, taking care not to let the egg curdle.

  24. Let boil until it thickens slightly, then strain into another dish.

  25. Cook until the sauce thickens slightly, strain and add a square of sugar, a heaping tablespoonful of either Chutney, currant jelly, apple, or cranberry sauce.

  26. As mixture thickens add gradually the lemon juice and saccharine.

  27. Then add one-half tablespoon butter, and as the mixture thickens another one-half tablespoon butter; season with salt and cayenne.

  28. When it thickens (about one minute) it is done.

  29. It fills and crystallizes, thickens and elongates, as the constant drip, evaporating from the outside, deposits more and more of the lime.

  30. The vitriolic acid moreover thickens and even burns some of this oil; and hence comes the bituminous residuum left at the bottom of the still, which looks like the result of a vitriolic acid combined with common oil.

  31. It is followed by a red Oil, which at first is pretty thin and limpid, but thickens as the distillation advances, grows black, and has a very disagreeable empyreumatic smell.

  32. When the spermatia are expelled, the stroma thickens for the production of asci and sporidia, which are afterwards developed during the autumn and winter.

  33. The shifting winds roar athwart our course, and blow stronger out of the black west, and the air thickens into mist: nor are we fit to force our way on and across.

  34. Heat the milk in a double boiler, add sugar and a pinch of cinnamon and salt; when scalding hot, pour in cornstarch and cocoa mixture and stir carefully until it thickens well.

  35. Boil sugar and water; add to the beaten yolks of eggs the grated peel of lemon, butter and flour; pour over this the boiling mixture, then boil until it thickens like custard.

  36. With this serve a sauce made from the yolks of three eggs, one pint milk, sugar and vanilla to taste; cook in double boiler till it thickens so that it will pour nicely.

  37. If this fresh wounding did not occur, the flow would cease, because the resin thickens and hardens when exposed to the air.

  38. As the water goes off in steam, the remainder becomes maple syrup, which thickens as it boils.

  39. Quickly it thickens by the cold into stringy yellow wax, which tastes like other maple sugar, but does not have the unpleasant gritty feeling, which sets some teeth on edge.

  40. The sirup thickens if process is prolonged and water evaporates.

  41. A method easier for the novice is to accomplish the first stage in a bowl set into a teakettle, beating into the mass as it thickens a teaspoonful of butter, or a tablespoonful of cream.

  42. Pour in the flour, all at once, and stir the flour and fat together, until the mass thickens slightly.

  43. Heat until it thickens well, stirring constantly; take from the fire and set aside to cool.

  44. Boil until it thickens well, stirring all the while.

  45. If such an oil be mixed with lard oil, olive oil, or sperm oil, it thickens by oxidation, but is perfectly soluble.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thickens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.