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Example sentences for "glaze"

Lexicographically close words:
glaubt; glauca; glaucoma; glauconite; glaucous; glazed; glazes; glazier; glaziers; glazing
  1. The ice had melted there to such an extent that only a thin glaze covered the surface.

  2. The rain kept pouring down in torrents, and as it fell, a glaze formed on the sidewalks, so that it was with difficulty that the Army Boys kept their feet.

  3. In zero weather the jay forgets to be saucy, and if there is a glaze on the snow, his native impertinence seems to ooze from him, and he becomes meek enough.

  4. Allow the steak to merely glaze over and then turn it quickly to the other side, turning it several times in this manner, until it is done.

  5. Glaze it with a little meat jelly; just before the jelly congeals sift over a little cracker browned and pounded; decorate with meat jelly and serve.

  6. To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.

  7. Cut an inch square of thin pastry, place on the centre of each, glaze this also with egg, and bake in a quick oven fifteen to twenty minutes.

  8. When the pastry is nearly baked, brush it over with this and sift over some pounded sugar; put it back into the oven to set the glaze and in a few minutes it will be done.

  9. Brush all over with beaten egg while hot, set back in the oven to glaze for three minutes.

  10. Strew in upon them a few seasoned bread crumbs, and when nearly done, glaze the tops with a hot shovel.

  11. Glaze the top of each with sugar and milk, or the white of an egg, before baking.

  12. It is not difficult to turn the dishes; but to glaze them is a very difficult matter, because several drugs must be mixed together for that purpose, and besides, one must know how long to bake them.

  13. It was useless for them to forbid me over there; I used, in secret, to make little pots and porringers of the clay Iwaneck would bring me, and I know still how to glaze dishes and other things.

  14. Radionek went to work earnestly, and at first wanted to glaze all the pottery; but the old man restrained him by wise observations.

  15. Nothing, nothing at all, my child; only I met this honest fellow, who has worked a long time with the potters in Mrozowica, and he has offered to teach me to glaze pottery.

  16. Put them in the oven and when they are firm and their sides have spread, glaze them with white of egg and dust with powdered sugar.

  17. Add sufficient stock to prevent burning, set the pan on the fire and braise the duck, then glaze it.

  18. Just before serving glaze each chou slightly with a chocolate icing.

  19. When lightly browned drain on a cloth or paper, lay on a baking dish, sift powdered sugar over and glaze by placing in a hot oven a few minutes.

  20. My own lodging was, however, different, and through the glaze of the window we could see the sickly glare of the light in the shop, where Monsieur and Madame were no doubt discussing the business of the day.

  21. As the death glaze was covering his eyes, his empty saddle was filled by a figure that rose up like a sprite through the dim smoke, and Belin's even voice was heard.

  22. They had not stayed to scrutinise the features; but the hat was still in its place--the sombrero of black glaze which Maurice was accustomed to wear.

  23. When the glazing is completed the pot is still too hot to be borne in the hands; however, the glaze has become rigid and hard.

  24. Each potter then takes a vessel at a time, places it red hot on its supporting base on the earth before her, and immediately proceeds, with much care and labor, to glaze the rim and inside of the bowl.

  25. He further says that the glaze is not a true glaze.

  26. Formerly Samoki made pottery of only the brown clay, and she used cut grass intermixed for a temper, but she claims those earlier pots were too porous to glaze well.

  27. This outer glaze, applied by the young apprentices, who, in play, are learning an art of their future womanhood, is neither so thick nor so carefully laid as is the glaze of the rim and inner surface of the vessel.

  28. The glaze is a resin obtained in trade from Barlig.

  29. It is an Englishman's need to be outwardly pleasant, to glaze a volcano with a laugh--in public.

  30. If you must pay thousands better pay them for two feet of glaze and colour than for two inches, no doubt.

  31. He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external: as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay.

  32. Her intentions in short had never been more definite; but poor Lily, for all the hard glaze of her exterior, was inwardly as malleable as wax.

  33. But she was growing less sensitive on such points: a hard glaze of indifference was fast forming over her delicacies and susceptibilities, and each concession to expediency hardened the surface a little more.

  34. Upon the application of the flame, the mixture will melt and form a glaze over the surface of the copper, thus preventing oxidation and assuring good work.

  35. Let dry and put on a very few high lights on some of the yellow and with ivory black used as a glaze correct any glaring mistakes by covering them over which will then appear as belonging to the under parts.

  36. Then put on a thin glaze over it when dry made of raw and burnt sienna with enough whiting to make it rather transparent.

  37. In the manufacture of ware with enamelled colours, glaze is mixed with the pigment to form a flux, and such colours are used either moist or in the form of a dry powder.

  38. Fritting" the lead means mixing it with the other ingredients of the glaze beforehand and fusing them all together under great heat into a kind of rough glass, which is then ground to make the glaze.

  39. It may be explained that lead is used in china and earthenware to give the external glaze which renders the naturally porous ware watertight.

  40. After dipping the glaze dries quickly, and on being "fired" in the kiln it becomes fused by the heat into the familiar glassy surface.

  41. At the last moment, sprinkle a little powdered sugar over the omelet, and just glaze the sugar with a red-hot salamander.

  42. It is customary to shake some powdered sugar over the mould, and then glaze it with a red-hot salamander.

  43. Fill the cases, but not too full; glaze the contents with some rather coarse sugar, and bake the whole in an oven moderately heated.

  44. The frail scent of mignonette roused with the dust of letters half a century old, and eyes too dim and watery to show the glaze of tears turn backward fifty years upon the mignonette-bowered scene of love's young dream.

  45. He regarded her through the glaze of tears.

  46. Standing there holding it thrust enthusiastically forward, a glaze suddenly formed over Mrs. Meyerburg's eyes and she laid her cheek to the brown fur collar, a tear dropping to it.

  47. This is accomplished by either painting into a thin glaze of color, administered to the whole canvas so that every brushful partakes of some of it; or by modifying the painting subsequently by transparent glazes of the same tone.

  48. The continued experience had varnished her self-esteem with a glaze of cynicism sufficiently consistent to protect it against any but the strongest attack.

  49. Besides, both men early established on their cheeks an invulnerable glaze of a decoction of pine tar, oil, and a pungent herb.

  50. Defn: A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze.

  51. Defn: An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.

  52. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.

  53. Ceramics) Defn: The material for glaze of pottery.

  54. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

  55. When done, peel off this and the skin, and glaze as you would a cold ham.

  56. When done, brush over with beaten egg, and set back in the oven to glaze for two or three minutes.

  57. Bake the handsomest one upon a tin plate by itself, and brush it over with egg when you glaze the pie.

  58. Under the glaze of their powder they were old and wise.

  59. For the neck and face were a glaze of white.

  60. The turquoise blue glaze of their pottery and wall tiles has been handed down in these lands apparently without a break, through Persian and Sassanian times to their later Arab masters.

  61. Percy found antimony in the glaze of Assyrian bricks, and I have taken for granted that it is the source of the yellow in the primitive glass of Egypt.

  62. It should be borne in mind that without the presence of the first two bases--the lime and the soda--a good copper blue in glass or glaze cannot be obtained.

  63. Footnote 12: Antimony has been found in the glaze of Assyrian bricks, as well as in the yellow enamel of mediaeval Saracenic glass.

  64. Take it out, cut the string from it, and either glaze it or sprinkle some dry parsley that has been chopped very fine over it; sprinkle a little flour on the top of it, with gherkin and carrot.

  65. When baked, turn it out into your dish, scrape some fine sugar upon it, and glaze with a hot shovel.

  66. When thoroughly done, strain it off before you serve it, and, with a feather, put it over your turbot to glaze it.

  67. Wipe the tongue dry, when taken out of the pickle; glaze it over with a brush dipped in pyroligneous acid, and hang it up in the kitchen.

  68. Glaze them thoroughly with the yolk and white of egg mixed up; open a hole at the top of each with a small knife; cut six tops of the size of a crown-piece, and place them lightly on the patés.

  69. If you would have them white, put strong broth instead of glaze and half a pint of cream.

  70. The paste is a brilliant white, the glaze perfect; and the dragons, in green, have all that freedom and fancy for which the early Chinese artists were remarkable.

  71. The red glaze is of considerable antiquity; some of the vases made under the Sung dynasty at Tsing-cheou are mentioned as resembling chiseled red jade.

  72. Porcelain-painting is done in two ways: under the glaze directly on the clay, or upon the glaze.

  73. The best work of Japan is often superior in the paste and in the glaze to the Chinese.

  74. The Japanese now produce a crackle under the glaze, and also a very fine crackle in the glaze itself; which last is probably much the easiest to do.

  75. The glaze was good, and well adapted to receive colors.

  76. This lead or plumbiferous glaze continued in use for a long time; but when it was first used in England seems unknown.

  77. The paste and glaze are excellent, and the decoration of the outsides exquisite; but the insides show painting of a much commoner type.

  78. The colors are not brilliant, nor is the glaze perfect.

  79. The glaze is next applied, either by dipping, or by blowing it on with a tube.

  80. The difference between the paste and the thick glaze is well illustrated by fragments of ancient vases, some of which are exhibited.

  81. The less beautiful pieces are described as "coarse, opaque, and of a bluish gray, the glaze thick and vitreous.

  82. If brown holland is too dear, ‘crash’ serves every purpose, but the glaze on the holland resists dust better than anything, and insures cleanliness.


  83. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glaze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bake; bedaub; berg; besmear; board; brick; buff; burnish; calcimine; calf; candy; clay; coat; color; comfit; confection; confectionery; conserve; cover; daub; dip; dye; emblazon; enamel; face; film; finish; fire; floe; flux; fresco; frosting; furbish; gelatin; gild; glacier; glance; glass; glaze; glint; gloss; grain; honey; hue; ice; iceberg; icicle; icing; illuminate; imbue; ingrain; jam; jelly; lacquer; lath; luster; marmalade; meringue; mold; mousse; paint; paper; patina; pigment; plank; pot; preserve; prime; rub; scour; shade; shadow; shake; shape; sheathe; sheen; shellac; shine; shingle; slate; sleek; sleet; slick; slip; slob; sludge; smear; spread; stain; stipple; stone; sugar; sweet; sweeten; sweetmeat; thatch; throw; tile; tincture; tinge; tint; tone; varnish; veneer; wallpaper; wash; wax; weatherboard; whitewash