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Example sentences for "when very"

  • Put in a frying-pan about a pound and a half of lard, in which, when very hot, fry your smelts a light brown.

  • Put plenty of lard in a frying-pan, in which, when very hot, fry your crabs.

  • Chop cold, boiled potatoes into rather coarse dice; cover with warm milk in which a pinch of soda has been dropped; when very hot, stir in a lump of floured butter and a little minced parsley and onion.

  • When very light, stir in the dredged fruit lightly and quickly; pour into a buttered dish and bake one hour, covering with white paper should it “crust” over too fast.

  • When very hot, pour upon oblong slices of fried toast covering the bottom of a hot dish.

  • When very hot, stir in the floured butter, and, when this is mixed, the cream.

  • When very young he entered the establishment of one of the leading haberdashers on rue Saint-Denis, the firm of Guepin at the Trois Quenouilles.

  • When very light, add three find one half cupfuls of sifted Graham flour, or enough to make a dough that can be molded.

  • When very young, most varieties need no preparation for cooking, aside from washing thoroughly.

  • When very old, no amount of boiling will soften them.

  • When very thick, add the egg-yolk, the vanilla and lemon extracts and the cocoanut.

  • Place a damp cloth around the prepared slices when very moist, and tender.

  • Melt the butter in a small frying-pan, and, when very hot, pour in the batter.

  • When very young, beans are sometimes served whole: thus dressed, their colour and flavour are much better preserved, but the more general way of sending them to table is to cut them into thin strips.

  • Small onions, when very young, may be cooked whole, and served in melted butter.

  • When very young, beans are sometimes served whole: when they are thus dressed, their colour and flavour are much better preserved; but the more general way of dressing them is to cut them into thin strips.

  • It may depend on the yield of honey at the time; when very plenty, more drone-cells, &c.

  • Yet stocks, when very weak, do not commence till warm weather.

  • Trees, and all vegetables, confessedly discharge electricity, and such discharges move the leaves, when very active.

  • When very young he is said to have been so remarkable for his dulness, that he became the jest of his acquaintances.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when very" 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:
    once started; single bound; when applied; when behold; when boiling; when called; when completed; when cool; when done; when dried; when dying; when employed; when here; when mother; when next; when placed; when pure; when riding; when seen; when some; when they saw the; when thou art king; when thus; when treating; when twenty; whence they