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Example sentences for "thin muslin"

  • Strain through a thin muslin bag, and, for every pint of juice, add one pound of granulated sugar.

  • To color icing yellow, use the rind of a lemon or orange, tied in a thin muslin bag, straining a little of the juice through it and squeezing hard into the ice and sugar; for red, use extract of cochineal.

  • Add a bunch of sweet herbs, and a small table-spoonful of black pepper-corns tied in a thin muslin rag.

  • Put in also a bunch of sweet marjoram, tied up in a thin muslin rag to prevent its floating on the top.

  • Tie up in a thin muslin rag, a tea-cupful of mustard seed, and a large table-spoonful of scraped horseradish, and put it into the jars with the walnuts.

  • Having drained them in a sieve, make for them a pickle of strong vinegar, and boil in it for five minutes, some mace, whole pepper, and sliced ginger tied up in a thin muslin bag.

  • To color icing, put the grated peel of a lemon or orange in a thin muslin bag, squeezing a little juice through it, then mixing with the sugar.

  • Thin muslin is as good as thick, and will last for years if washed when laid away when emptied.

  • Tie some of it into a thin muslin, put on the edges of the broken china some white of an egg, and dust on a little lime as quickly as possible; but be careful to unite the broken parts very exactly.

  • Stir it carefully over a slow fire till it almost boils, and strain it quickly through a piece of thin muslin.

  • Roll out one and one-half inches thick, cut in round cakes, let rise and bake a deep yellow color.

  • When the gelatine has dissolved, remove the blanc-mange from the vessel of boiling water in which you have cooked it, and strain through a thin muslin bag, pressing it well to get out the flavor of the almonds.

  • Press and mash them, and strain them through a thin muslin bag.

  • Color icing yellow by putting the grated peel of a lemon or orange in a thin muslin bag, straining a little juice through it, and squeezing it hard into the egg and sugar.

  • The soda next, and lastly the lemon-juice, in which the grated orange-peel should have been steeped and strained out in a piece of thin muslin, leaving the flavoring and coloring matter in the juice.

  • An excellent bread, it is said, can be made of this flour, at half the cost of wheaten bread.

  • The above is a contribution from an intelligent traveller, who has passed some years on the Continent.

  • Epicure QUIN used to say, it was “not safe to sit down to a turtle feast at one of the City Halls, without a basket-hilted knife and fork.

  • A piece of thin muslin or tissue paper is usually placed between the plaster and the skin to prevent absorption.

  • In the morning put on in the liquor from your corned beef, with a sliced onion and a little celery-seed, tied in thin muslin.

  • The leg is best for this purpose, and will look much nicer when served, if it has been tied up in very coarse, thin muslin, or in white mosquito-netting.

  • Sew each up in thin muslin, or tarlatan, fitted closely to the shape, and put on in plenty of boiling water, a little salt.

  • A little celery-seed tied in a thin muslin bag.

  • Those treated by this method are more comfortable during the course of the disease and are saved a long, tedious convalescence which has made the starvation treatment a thing of horror in the past.

  • The stomach must be empty before administering the anesthetic.

  • The number of glucose enemas given each day must be regulated by the physician.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thin muslin" 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:
    expedition against; thin brass; thin coating; thin cream; thin crust; thin glass; thin layer; thin paper; thin paste; thin slice; thin strips; thin syrup; thine enemy; thine hand; thine hands; thine own; thing done; things around; things seen; things which; think shame; think very; think well; thinking about; thinking over; thinks himself