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Example sentences for "will cover"

  • Add as much water as will cover them; put on closely the lid of the pan; and let the whole stew for about an hour.

  • Having removed the bones, and seasoned it with a little salt and pepper, put the venison into a pot, with barely as much water as will cover it, and let it stew till perfectly tender, skimming it occasionally.

  • Put them into a clean pot, with as much boiling water as will cover them.

  • Soak a dried cod for three hours in cold water; scrape and wash it very clean; then put it on to boil in as much cold water as will cover it.

  • Put them into the pot with the tripe and add as much water as will cover them; also four onions sliced, and a small bunch of sweet herbs chopped finely.

  • Cut in small pieces four pounds of tripe, put it on to boil in as much water as will cover it, allowing a tea spoonful of salt to every quart of water.

  • One large shad, Two table spoonsful of salt, Three tea spoonsful of cayenne pepper, Two table spoonsful of whole allspice, As much vinegar as will cover it.

  • Stew some large oysters with a little nutmeg, a few cloves, some yolk of egg boiled hard and grated, a little butter and as much liquor from the oysters as will cover them.

  • Parboil the asparagus with as much water as will cover them; then pour the water and asparagus into milk, then add butter, pepper and salt, also bread crumbs, and boil until the asparagus is done.

  • In putting away, use as much liquor as will cover it.

  • Pour over as much boiling vinegar as will cover them.

  • Cut your mutton in steaks, and put it into as much water as will cover it.

  • Put it into an earthen pot with as much clarified butter as will cover it; bake it well.

  • Pour to it as much boiling water as will cover it; add a little lemon-peel, and a bunch of herbs, which must be taken out before done enough; when it has stewed about two hours turn it.

  • Strew cloves and beaten mace on the cheeks, also thyme and sweet marjoram, finely chopped; then put in as much white wine as will cover them an inch or more above the meat, but wash not off the other things by pouring it on.

  • Stew some large fresh oysters with a few cloves, a little mace and nutmeg, some yolk of egg boiled hard and grated, a little butter, and as much of the oyster liquor as will cover them.

  • Should you find it sour in the morning, dissolve a small tea-spoonful of pearl-ash in as much water as will cover it, and stir it into the batter, letting it set afterwards at least half an hour.

  • Lay them in a preserving kettle, and put to them as much water only, as will cover them, and as much lemon-peel as you choose.

  • Put them into a possnet or pot, with about a quart of Milk upon them, or as much as will cover them in boiling, which do moderately, till you find they are very tender.

  • Add as much water as will cover them; put on closely the lid of the pan, and let the whole stew for about an hour.

  • Take a fine plump young goose, and parboil it, (in as little water as will cover it,) saving the gravy.

  • Having removed the bones and cut the meat into steaks, and seasoned it with salt and pepper, put the venison into a pot, with merely as much water as will cover it well.

  • Take the bones and other trimmings, put them in a sauce-pan with as much water as will cover them, and some sliced onions, and let them stew till you have drawn from them a good gravy.

  • Have ready a good broth made of three pounds of veal boiled slowly in as much water as will cover it, till the meat is reduced to shreds.

  • Then put them into an Earthen Glazed Jarr, or wide-mouth'd Glass, with as much White-Wine Vinegar as will cover them.

  • It will be very tender and of an excellent Taste; it must be served with the same broth as much as will cover it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "will cover" 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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