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Example sentences for "harden"

Lexicographically close words:
harbouring; harbours; hard; harde; hardely; hardened; hardeneth; hardening; hardens; harder
  1. Spread some clean paper on the board, turn the meringues upside down and put them into the oven to harden and brown on the other side.

  2. When cool, it will harden to a solid cake, winch can be easily removed when the jelly is used, and saved to use over again another year.

  3. The salt should never be put in the peas before they are tender, unless very young, as it tends to harden them.

  4. All omelets should be served the moment they are done, as they harden by standing, and care taken that they do not cook too much.

  5. Put away to harden in cups or molds, and serve with sugar and cream.

  6. It is not boiled enough if it does not harden so as to work like dough, and should not stick to the hands; in this case put it back into the pan with an ounce of hot water, and cook over just enough, by testing in water as above.

  7. It should not be salted at first, as that tends to harden it, and draws out too much of the blood or juices; but salt soon after it begins to roast well.

  8. It will harden just as nicely as that does.

  9. Lay them upon paper to harden until all are formed.

  10. Then, with all earnest tenderness, he exhorted them to be warned by his sad state, and not to harden their hearts against the gracious influences, and entreated them to yield to the Saviour.

  11. Their hearts are usually very tender, while this sin must harden the heart past all feeling.

  12. Let me advise you, not to harden your mind; nor take up your resolution beforehand.

  13. Our hearts may harden and contract, as we gain experience, and when we have smarted perhaps for our easy folly: and so they ought, or we should be upon very unequal terms with the world.

  14. I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

  15. Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

  16. I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.

  17. Having acquired its full size in the course of 25 or 30 days, and ceasing to eat during the remainder of its life, it begins to discharge a viscid secretion, in the form of pulpy twin filaments, from its nose, which harden in the air.

  18. To harden up the strand, and thereby increase the angle in the outside shell; which compensates for the stretching of the yarns, and the compression of the strands.

  19. They harden with heat like other clays, and perhaps in a greater degree; but they do not acquire an equal condensation or solidity, at least when they are perfectly pure.

  20. If one dip be not sufficient to make a proper transparent plate of isinglass, several may be given in succession, allowing each film to harden in the interval between the dips.

  21. He told him that the loose and worthless company which he would there keep, would harden him in vice, and if he was now wicked, he might there become irreclaimable.

  22. But her mother refused to let her, saying it would only harden her heart in mischief.

  23. The face of such a man can harden just from habit.

  24. It didn't take long for that near-assurance to harden into a conviction, for what happened after the big gate clanged shut behind us was almost a repeat of what had taken place in the nuclear fortress.

  25. Well, hezh took hishelf off to Harden in Yorkshire, and he'll not be 'ome again for a week.

  26. A small roast will require a hotter fire than a larger one, in order to harden the exterior and prevent the juices from escaping.

  27. If the dough should get soft and sticky, place it in a tin or cold plate on the ice to harden between the rollings.

  28. Any tough, fibrous material may be used to temporarily harden the surface of a road.

  29. Foam itself, and this is worth thinking of, can harden into oyster-shell; all living objects do by necessity form to themselves a skin.

  30. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

  31. Defn: To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.

  32. Hydraulic cement, a cement or mortar made of hydraulic lime, which will harden under water.

  33. Defn: To harden too much; to make too hard.

  34. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them.

  35. For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts.

  36. Defn: To make firm; to harden in resolution.

  37. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

  38. To harden the neck, to grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious.

  39. Elderly people can also increase their chest expansion and breathing capacity, but it takes more time, for with the years the chest cartilages have a tendency to harden and even to ossify.

  40. The bones of the skull harden so early that the brain has no room to expand.

  41. In places where the water is excessively charged with lime it has been noticed that the bones harden too early, which prevents full development of the body.

  42. No, if anything on earth was calculated to harden and embitter a woman who could not easily yield, surely it must be her own so easy overthrow by pink cheeks and soft, empty eyes.

  43. He was seeking to harden himself to his task past all hope of reconsideration.

  44. The situation reminded him remotely of Fairview on those first days when Monet and he had attempted to harden their muscles against the day of escape.

  45. This must be done immediately after lifting the fork as they will harden in a few seconds.

  46. Just drop your nut in, and quickly lift it out and lay on a piece of tin if you have it, or the bottom of a tin pan will do, as they do not stick a particle to tin and will harden in a very few seconds.

  47. It should harden in a short time after being dropped.

  48. Do not attempt to coat in a room that is cold, for your chocolate will harden on your hands and on the slab, before you can get it worked enough.

  49. The kettle which held the eggs may be scraped out clean, but you must remember to do this double mixing as quickly as possible or the syrup is liable to sugar and harden for you before you get it mixed.

  50. In real cold weather they may harden very quickly after being placed on the tray.

  51. The kettle which held the eggs double mixing as quickly as possible or the syrup is liable to sugar and harden for you before you get it mixed.

  52. Always have your slab warm before pouring this candy on it, as it is cooked very high and will harden very quickly if your slab is cold, which you do not want it to do.

  53. Do not grain the batch too much before pouring into the eggs or it will harden before you can get it mixed.

  54. If they do not harden in the starch, it is because of the water you added or else because you did not get the cream hot enough, and they may be picked out, blown off, and re-melted again without hurting the cream in the least.

  55. That is, when you have dipped about a dozen pieces of candy, you must set them in the refrigerator, so that the chocolate on them will harden quickly.

  56. It must be hot or it will not harden in the starch, but remember the hotter you get it, the harder it will be after it is cool, and as you do not wish them to be too hard, be careful and not allow it to get too hot.

  57. Tis ours to save our brethren, with peace and love to win Their darkened hearts from error, ere they harden it to sin; But if before his duty man with listless spirit stands, Ere long the Great Avenger takes the work from out his hands.

  58. Under any conditions clay will slowly harden so that not too large a stock should be kept.

  59. This will harden them so that they will not be apt to be injured by the cabbage beetle, as well as chilled and put back by the change.

  60. If it is desirable still further to check their growth, or harden them, transplant into another cold frame, allowing each plant double the distance it before occupied.

  61. Harden the plants as directed in preceding paragraph.

  62. If a season of drouth occurs when the cabbages have begun to head, the heads will harden prematurely; and then should a heavy rain fall, they will start to make a new growth, and the consequence will be many of them will split.

  63. She’s not one to harden her heart against a mother’s sorrow.

  64. Instead of softening his nature, this intelligence seemed only to harden and brutalize it.

  65. And the Lord said unto Moses, when thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

  66. Even the mercy of Christianity was foreshadowed in his provision for the poor, who were never to cease out of the land; the prospered were to lend without interest, and never to harden their heart against a brother.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodate; adapt; adjust; brace; break; brutalize; buttress; cake; callous; coagulate; condition; confirm; crystallize; domesticate; endure; establish; familiarize; firm; fix; fortify; freeze; gentle; gird; habituate; harden; inure; invigorate; jell; naturalize; nerve; petrify; prop; refresh; reinforce; season; solidify; steel; stiffen; strengthen; support; sustain; tame; temper; thicken; toughen; train; wont