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Example sentences for "when the water boils"

  • Apply several coats of the hot composition with a brush.

  • Boiled or steamed potatoes chopped up or sliced while they are yet warm never fry so successfully as when cold.

  • A small cupful of butter, the grated peel of two large lemons and the juice of one, the yolks of ten eggs and whites of five, a cupful and a half of white sugar.

  • Dredge it with flour, tie it up in a cloth, and put it in when the water boils.

  • When the water boils put in the meat, whether beef or mutton, and take off the scum as it rises.

  • Put it in when the water boils, turn it about a few minutes to prevent the egg settling on one side, and half an hour will boil it.

  • It is usual to put all kinds of fresh meat into hot water, and salt meat into cold water; but if the meat has been salted only a short time it is better to put it in when the water boils, or it will draw out too much of the gravy.

  • When the water boils, take out the fish, lay it in a delicately clean stewpan, and cover with the cream.

  • Why does NOT a kettle SING, when the water BOILS?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when the water boils" 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:
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