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Example sentences for "burgoo"

Lexicographically close words:
burgled; burgling; burgomaster; burgomasters; burgonet; burgs; burgum; burh; buri; burial
  1. In retrospect I smell the burgoo a-cooking, and sympathetically my mouth waters.

  2. When the burgoo is done, strain it into tin cups.

  3. The excellence of a burgoo depends upon two things, the materials you have of which to make it and the care you take in cooking it.

  4. But my side was scraped clean, so I got no burgoo that morning.

  5. He gave the men pea-soup and rice instead of burgoo and the wretched oatmeal mess which was the staple thing for breakfast.

  6. Many of you, on past voyages, fighting the enemy, lived on burgoo and molasses only, with rum and foul water to drink.

  7. The burgoo was all that he had claimed, and more.

  8. Yet a burgoo sounds even fiercer and more barbaric.

  9. And, swung in a mighty rank above a row of camp-fires cleverly built in a broad shallow trench, the burgoo kettles sizzled and steamed.

  10. I have the honor to report that while your engineers were stoking with burgoo and black-currant pie, Garrison Dredge Number Three was observed to be on fire.

  11. Well, then, so ye don't know a burgoo by experience.

  12. From the window of her Chateau in the Burgoo Province the Lady Cashier can see the American Tourists going by in their hired Motor Cars.

  13. After she recovered, she found herself actually Engaged to the Representative of one of the Oldest Families in the Saucisson District of the Burgoo Province and as manly a Chap as ever borrowed Money from a Toe-Dancer.

  14. In a real burgoo we put no thickening like meal, rice or other material of similar nature, because the broth is strained and served clear.

  15. If, for instance, we have a good string of grouse we will take their legs and wings and necks for the burgoo and save their breasts for a broil, and if we have not many grouse we will put in a whole bird or two.

  16. The excellence of the burgoo depends more upon the manner of cooking and seasoning it than it does on the material used in its decoction.

  17. These are the good omens by which the burgoo is fortified.

  18. The burgoo and the barbecue belong to that era when food was plenty, feasts were generous and appetites good.

  19. When the burgoo is done dip it out and drink it from tin cups.

  20. When everything of which the stew was composed was cooked to shreds, the burgoo was pronounced done, and was served in tin cups, and eaten with shell spoons, made by splitting a stick and wedging a mussel-shell in the opening.

  21. When a burgoo is decided upon, it is best to prepare a light lunch to be eaten about eleven o’clock, and have the heartier meal at four or five in the afternoon, as it requires some time for the stew to cook.

  22. MORAL: A Dramatic Editor should never go to a Burgoo Picnic--especially in Kentucky.

  23. The preparation of the Burgoo does not employ all hands of a large party all the time, and the idle ones may amuse themselves with A Game of Jack-Fagots.

  24. When you have a Burgoo ask a certain number of guests to each bring a raw dressed chicken, duck, or goose, and others to bring vegetables, peeled and ready for the pot.

  25. Major LeCroix gave a burgoo at his locust grove on the river, to which all the candidates were invited.

  26. Turkle" Thompkins had been engaged to make the burgoo, and the river country could not boast of another such burgoo maker as "Turkle", for the making of burgoo soup requires an experience born of long practice and care.

  27. There, that will do;" and Mr Vanslyperken wished to remove the basin with a little of the burgoo remaining in it.

  28. You shall have your breakfast soon," continued his master, eating the burgoo between his addresses to the animal.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burgoo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bisque; bouillabaisse; broth; chowder; consomme; gumbo; puree; soup; stock