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Example sentences for "until quite"

  • Boil the chestnuts and vegetables gently until quite tender, which will take 1-1/2 hours.

  • In the morning, let them cook gently in the water they are steeped in with the addition of a little butter, until quite soft, which will be in about 2 hours.

  • Boil the rice and lentils together until quite tender, and let them cool a little.

  • Chop the onions up very finely, and fry them with the butter until slightly browned; add the rice, seasoning, and water, and let the whole cook gently until quite soft.

  • Set it on the fire and let it stew five minutes, stirring it all the time, until quite dry.

  • Crumble all together with the hands until quite fine.

  • Heat in a greased saucepan, stirring all the while, until quite stiff.

  • Cut one pound of streaked bacon into thin long slices; put into a frying-pan and cook slowly, turning often, until quite crisp.

  • Beat into the mixture one or two whipped eggs; heat and stir over the fire until quite stiff.

  • Have ready some good gravy, highly flavoured with mushrooms; reduce it until quite thick, and pour it round the artichokes, and serve.

  • Cut up the rabbits into joints, put them into a stewpan, with the milk and other ingredients, and simmer them very gently until quite tender.

  • Take the spawn and pound it in a mortar with the butter, until quite smooth, and work it through a hair sieve.

  • Put the spinach into a clean stewpan, with the butter and a seasoning of pepper; stir the whole over the fire until quite hot; then put it on a hot dish, and garnish with sippets of toasted bread.

  • Simmer very gently for about half an hour, or until quite tender.

  • Boil one hour or until quite tender, remove the lemon, lift out the salsify and place in a warm vegetable dish, thicken the liquor with the other half ounce of butter and the flour, pour over the salsify and serve.

  • Bake for two hours, or until quite tender, basting frequently and turning it occasionally.

  • In the meantime, boil the vegetables with sufficient water to cover, until quite tender.

  • Among all these classes, until quite lately, carpets were unknown, or at least they were confined to the very highest class of society.

  • The approach to the castle is circuitous, until quite near it, when the road enters a little thicket of evergreens, crosses a bridge, and passes beneath an arch to the court, which is paved.

  • Simmer them gently for thirty minutes or more, until quite tender.

  • Put the beef into the water with the vegetables cut in pieces, herbs, cloves, pepper and salt, and stew gently from four to five hours, until quite tender.

  • Simmer the steak gently from three to four hours, until quite tender.

  • Then knead and work well about until quite smooth.

  • Until quite recently, citrus-trees were almost entirely grown from seed in this State, with the result that we have a very large number of types, and many crosses between different species.

  • Until quite recently, grape culture was in a very backward state in Queensland, the grapes grown on the coast being nearly all American varieties, which are by no means the best wine or table sorts.

  • And whereas the chief blame lay, until quite a few years ago, upon the French, to-day it lies upon the British Government.

  • Meanwhile there was not, until quite lately, any considerable body of poor Jews in the country to excite the animosity of the populace.

  • Until quite lately it was the French who bore the worst odium of this in the eyes of the Mohammedans.

  • Until quite lately, the only church in Paris dedicated to the memory of the great Jesuit was the little chapel belonging to the Missions Étrangères in the Rue de Bac.

  • Philippe that Père Didon poured forth those eloquent and learned discourses, stocked with liberal ideas, which brought him into disgrace and forced retirement, until quite recently.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "until quite" 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:
    advance from; both kinds; certain regions; fit for; hath been; him who; native officers; progressive motion; sets forth; seven children; social legislation; suitable localities; taking place; until brown; until finally; until lately; until light; until now; until otherwise; until recent; until recently; until then; until thou; until very; until well; whole group