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Example sentences for "well rubbed"

  • The back, the chest, the bowels, and the limbs are the parts that ought to be well rubbed.

  • But, if they be actually larger than they ought to be, let them be well rubbed for a quarter of an hour at a time night and morning, with soap liniment, and then apply a broad flannel belt.

  • A little oil or unguent of any kind, well rubbed on the hands on going to rest (removing the superfluous portion with a cloth), will not only preserve them from cold, but tend to render them both soft and white.

  • Or, the mass may be well rubbed in a mortar until the hard lumps of sugar are broken down and a uniform consistence again produced.

  • Clothes closets that have become infested with moths, should be well rubbed with a strong decoction of tobacco, and repeatedly sprinkled with spirits of camphor.

  • To be well rubbed in, two, three, or four times a day.

  • It should be well rubbed in every night until the disease is cured; "but not more than one fourth part of the body should be covered with it at a time.

  • The part should be well rubbed with a coarse towel, so as to be reddened, before applying the ointment.

  • A little is to be well rubbed on the scalp twice a day.

  • The subsequent application, particularly at night, of the above lotions, or of two or three drops of almond or olive oil, well rubbed in, will usually effect the object completely.

  • The liquid with which it is moistened, should be added to it in small quantities, and the mustard should be well rubbed, and beaten with a spoon.

  • Cover the steel with sweet oil well rubbed on it, and in forty-eight hours use unslaked lime finely powdered, to rub until all the rust disappears.

  • Close Closets that have become infested with moths should be well rubbed with a strong decoction of tobacco, and repeatedly sprinkled with spirits of camphor.

  • Let the furniture be well rubbed; and the floor being dry, and the carpets laid down, the furniture may be replaced.

  • The leather is next to be tightly brought over the boards and well rubbed down, both on the edge and inside, with a folding stick, but on no account must the outside be rubbed, or the grain will be taken away.

  • After the work is well rubbed down, if it should appear to be insufficiently filled up, or if scratched, give it two more coats, laid on very smoothly, and rub down as before.

  • Flat surfaces will take stain more evenly if a small portion of linseed-oil is first wiped over, well rubbed off, and allowed to dry, then lightly papered down with fine glass-paper.

  • Olive oil, well rubbed in before a fire, and a copious drench of it also.

  • Use boiled oil to rub off the stock, but it must be well rubbed in.

  • As a local application, the author has found nothing to equal kerosene oil, one pint, to two ounces of aqua ammonia, well rubbed in, two or three times a day.

  • Spirits of turpentine, or mustard, together with spirits of hartshorn and water should be well rubbed in along the spine, from the neck to the tail.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "well rubbed" 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:
    answer came; busy life; perfectly satisfied; refined petroleum; well acquainted; well adapted; well armed; well aware; well born; well calculated; well contented; well disposed; well established; well grounded; well have; well inhabited; well preserved; well received; well remember; well rubbed; well skilled; well that; well they; well ventilated; well with; well wooded