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Example sentences for "thirds full"

  • Fill a tube cake pan well-greased with Cottolene, two-thirds full, and bake fifty minutes in a moderate oven.

  • A couple of table-spoonsful of this, mixed with a tumbler two-thirds full of water, is a wholesome and refreshing drink in fevers.

  • When the bottle is two-thirds full of the smallage, turn in French brandy, till the bottle is full.

  • When boiled, the bag should not be more than two-thirds full, as flour puddings swell very much.

  • It is important to note that the can must not be over two-thirds full.

  • Now pour over the dish sufficient thick, well-sweetened apple sauce to fill the baking dish two-thirds full.

  • Fill the saucepan two-thirds full of boiling water.

  • Line the tins with buttered paper and fill two-thirds full.

  • Grease well some muffin-pans and fill them two-thirds full.

  • Then fill them about two-thirds full of the popover batter.

  • Fill well-greased muffin pans about two-thirds full of the batter, and bake in a hot oven for about 20 minutes.

  • Fill well-greased muffin pans two-thirds full, and bake in a hot oven for about 20 minutes.

  • Fill well-greased muffin pans about two-thirds full of the mixture and bake in a hot oven for about 20 minutes.

  • Place the battery in a glass jar, fill it two-thirds full of strong sal ammoniac (or salt) solution and connect the terminals to whatever apparatus the current is to be used for.

  • Make a solution of 1 part sulphuric acid to 4 parts of water, and fill the lamp about two-thirds full (Fig.

  • Fill the globe about two-thirds full of water or other liquid and apply the heat below as shown.

  • Sufficient Crisco should be put into the pan to fill it about two-thirds full.

  • Turn into greased mold two-thirds full, grease cover, and steam steadily three and a half hours.

  • Let rise over night, in morning fill Criscoed muffin rings, two-thirds full; let rise until rings are full and bake thirty minutes in hot oven.

  • Butter a mould well, fill it about two-thirds full, and bake in a warm but not quick oven (about 300 deg.

  • Prepare rice as directed for croquettes, and instead of spreading it on a dish to cool, fill the mould about two-thirds full with it, and bake in a warm but not quick oven for about half an hour.

  • Butter a mould, put the mixture into it, not filling it more than two-thirds full, and bake in an oven at about 320 degrees.

  • Illustration: He reentered the house with a bucket two-thirds full of muddy water.

  • Put oil in your lamp, about two-thirds full.

  • The lamp must not be quite filled with spirit--about two-thirds full will be ample--and thus the spirit will not be liable to overflow.

  • When the proper weight has been attained, take your little man and his belongings out of the pail, and lower all in the water-bottle about two-thirds full of water, in which henceforth he is to dwell and perform his little gambols.

  • When the fruit is clear remove it with a skimmer; put in small jars, filling them two-thirds full.

  • If it is desired to cook this in individual cups, butter the cups, fill only two-thirds full, to allow for puffing up of the eggs, and set the cup a in a pan of water to bake.

  • Bake this in a buttered pudding-dish—a large one and but two-thirds full—until the custard is “set.

  • Next morning fill a glass dish two-thirds full of the jelly, which should be very clear, reserving a large cupful.

  • Beat and pour into greased muffin pans until they are two-thirds full.

  • Beat, add lightly the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, fill hot buttered gem pans two-thirds full, and bake in a hot oven.

  • Remove the fruit with a skimmer and harden in the sun while you boil down the syrup until thick; pack jars two-thirds full of the tomatoes, pour the syrup over and seal.

  • Fill cup about two-thirds full of water and when it boils add 1 heaping spoonful of cocoa and let boil 5 minutes.

  • Fill cup about two-thirds full of water and when it boils add 1/2 spoonful of tea, and let boil 5 minutes.

  • Fill cup about two-thirds full of water and when it boils add, 1 heaping spoonful of coffee, and let boil 5 minutes.

  • It has been remarked that cells were only filled about two-thirds full of this, and finished with honey; now when any one finds a cell filled to the brim with pollen, and no honey, such reasoning will apply better.

  • They are usually started thus far the first season, very frequently when the hive is only half or two-thirds full.

  • The bottle was not more than two-thirds full, and had no mark on it at all, except a small piece of paper stuck to the side, and inscribed with the single letter "A.

  • She took the one nearest in shape and size to the one which she had seen in the German's hand; emptied out the contents, dusted it and put in ground rice till it was two-thirds full.

  • When he came to examine the contents he found, first a lot of damp packing, and then a wide-necked stoppered bottle, two-thirds full of white powder.

  • It was a wide-necked stoppered bottle, two-thirds full of white powder; very much like the one she had brought in, but also very much like the one that stood five from the end on the second shelf of the cupboard.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thirds full" 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:
    beating heart; brute force; constant occurrence; could devise; deep yellow; dense masses; female suffrage; foreign assistance; general superintendent; great revolution; handsomely bound; just wish; modern business; near unto; other subspecies; shall come; small space; thirds full; thirds majority; thirds natural; thirds rule; thirds vote; unknown tongue; voice like; will proceed; yellow paper