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Example sentences for "onions"

Lexicographically close words:
oni; onia; onian; onie; onion; onlee; onles; onless; onley; onlie
  1. Chop corn, cook it with the water twenty minutes; melt butter, add chopped onions and cook until light brown; add flour, and when thoroughly mixed add milk gradually.

  2. Cover a number of large onions with boiling water and boil twenty minutes.

  3. Fry four onions in butter and lard, then put in tomatoes and seasoning, boil slowly until thick, put in grated cheese.

  4. Onions are very delicate prepared in this way.

  5. Four onions cut fine, one can of tomatoes, one package spaghetti, grated cheese, salt, pepper and cinnamon.

  6. The pious Moslem still eats his onions with these limitations.

  7. The old Egyptians highly esteemed this vegetable, which, with onions and leeks, enters into the list of articles so much regretted by the Hebrews (Numbers, xi.

  8. To bring the fetid odor of unwashed feet or filthy garments, or the stench of bad tobacco or worse whisky, or the offensive scent of onions or garlics within its sphere, is an act of impoliteness.

  9. There was the light snow-white bread; there were the potatoes reeking in butter; there were chickens swimming in gravy; there were the onions and the turnips, and I was sure Sister Scrub had gratified her ambition for once.

  10. Onions emit so very disagreeable an odor that no truly polite person will eat them when liable to inflict their fumes upon others.

  11. The squashes we will take too, and the onions and turnips and beets, and all those things.

  12. Onions you have once in awhile for a change; they are certainly good for you, and they need not be odoriferous.

  13. I don't think I shall ever sink to that low level; fried onions are not romantic.

  14. We shall have them for breakfast in the morning and for dinner at night, and I shall have a light lunch of them with bread and butter at bedtime; there's nothing like onions for insomnia.

  15. And she said she will chop up the chicken livers with onions and eggs for an appetizer, and then she will buy twenty-five pounds of fish, and cook it sweet and sour with raisins, and she said she will bake all her strudels on pure chicken fat.

  16. They remained in an undiscovered part of the house--there was a strong reek of frying onions from the kitchen--and delegated the servant as their link with the curious or respectful or impertinent world.

  17. Remove the steak and brown 6 chopped onions in the same fat.

  18. If onions are not objected to do not strain them off.

  19. Put in 1 large clove of garlic and 3 large onions sliced, salt and pepper.

  20. Put the onions and potatoes, sliced in layers, in a kettle, then a layer of fish until all is used.

  21. Small button onions or mushrooms may be added before the hare is tender; if onions are cooked with it they must be previously boiled for a few minutes.

  22. When these are cooked, add 1 tablespoon of butter and cook a little while longer, then pour over the onions and serve.

  23. The onions must on no account be allowed to burn.

  24. Chop up finely 2 onions, place half of the onions in a casserole that can be sent to table.

  25. I am cropping on onions with old Charlie Wade, down the road, and with sugar-beets with Hen Bates.

  26. Sam, a half-hour later, after we had finished with onions and many other profitable vegetables.

  27. I had asked him to let me set onions and weed beans and drop peas and corn for him and share his poverty and hard work as a true friend, and he had shut his cedar-pole gate in my face and heart.

  28. Dad wanted a druggist to put up onions in capsules, like they do quinine, so he could take onions and not taste them, but he couldn't make the man understand.

  29. This is the Cornu-Breton link--onions followed salt, and salt brandy.

  30. These chubby-faced boys invade us every year and 'dump' all the spare onions they grow in their little gardens at home.

  31. There was a chubby-faced youngster at the back door, in blue smock and knitted cap, bending under the weight of the onions he was carrying suspended from a pole on his shoulder.

  32. This bounteous provision of nature seems to have been extended to the vegetable kingdom and it has been observed that the pellicle of onions is much thicker on the approach of a severe winter than on that of a more temperate season.

  33. Then he ordered his stove to take him back home, and when there he continued to eat onions and soup and to drink cider.

  34. Our sluggard now thought he would like to show off before the villagers, so he pulled a sledge out of the shed, loaded it with onions and soup, after which he pronounced the magic words.

  35. Lay the crisp onions over the steak, then over all pour the brown gravy.

  36. Put cucumbers and onions into this, add one teaspoon of powdered alum, dissolved in a little warm water, add enough vinegar to cover it well, let stand three weeks before using.

  37. Fry about three onions in the two tablespoons of chicken fat, and when a light brown, put the matzoth in the spider with the fat and onions to dry them.

  38. Next day lay the herring in a stone jar with alternate layers of onions cut up, also lemon cut in slices, a few cloves, whole peppers and a few bay leaves, some capers and whole mustard seed.

  39. Put this meat, cut from the fish, into a wooden tray, add to it four large onions and a sprig of parsley.

  40. Texas onions are particularly fine for this purpose.

  41. Serve at once with chopped onions browned, or browned bread crumbs and chicken fat.

  42. Care must be taken in adding the vinegar gradually, and add sliced onions to the salad.

  43. Serve matzoth kleis in place of potatoes and garnish with minced onions browned in three tablespoons of fat.

  44. Season to taste, with salt and pepper, and onions previously fried in butter.

  45. Peck of Green Tomatoes 1 Ounce of Whole Cloves, Allspice, and Mustard Seed 4 Onions 2 Green Peppers Vinegar to cover 1 Cupful of Salt Slice the tomatoes, sprinkle over the salt, and let stand over night.

  46. What to Serve With Meats= Roast Beef and Turkey Squash, turnips, onions and cranberry sauce.

  47. Peck of Green Tomatoes 4 Green Peppers Allspice, Cloves and Mustard Seed 1 Cupful of Salt 6 Onions Vinegar Wipe clean, cut into small pieces, sprinkle over them a cupful of salt, and let stand over night.

  48. Beef Stew with Dumplings= 3 Pounds of Shin-bone with Meat 6 Potatoes 2 Large Onions 1 Tablespoonful of Salt Wash the meat, put into a kettle, cover with cold water and boil four hours.

  49. Potted Beef= 3 Pounds of a Cheap Cut of Beef 1/2 Can of Tomatoes Salt to taste 3 Onions Put the meat into a kettle, cover with cold water and boil slowly for three or four hours.

  50. I remember thinking once myself, in the days of my childhood, that pickled onions grew on trees, and that every elephant was born with an impregnable castle on his back.

  51. And, of course, the Caerphilly cheese appeared again at supper, and with bread and onions it was always the hedgerow snack of the man in the fields.

  52. Their endeavours, however, are not wanting to correct any acid or unwholesome humours that this sort of diet may produce, by the abundant use of onions and garlic, which they cultivate even upon the waters.

  53. I bossed the old Basque woman we had for cook and learned how to cook from her, using a great many onions for everything.

  54. An odor of searing fibers and smoke and frying onions rose up in the hot, still air of the kitchen.

  55. A smell of garlic and onions met Martin on his way to the rooms of Tootles' friend, and on the first landing he drew back to let two men pass down who looked like movie actors.

  56. There was a smell of onions and hot cheese.

  57. Now Milly, here, sometimes eats onions and poor Christine has to go around with the odor on her breath; and Christine got her feet wet and poor Milly has caught a bad cold from it.

  58. The right kind of gumbo must have tomatoes, okra, potatoes, onions and corn in it, and anyone who has served apprenticeship under Mammy Susan will make the right kind of gumbo.

  59. Peter Onions of Merthyr Tydvil, in 1783, carried the manufacture a stage further, as described by him in his patent of that year.

  60. Tomatoes, onions and macaroni may be put into baking dish in layers, with a sprinkling of pine nut meal; with tomatoes, crumbs and chopped nuts on top, and baked.

  61. Onion Apples= Simmer sliced onions in oil, with salt, in baking pan.

  62. If in a hurry to use them, dip sliced onions quickly into boiling water, then into cold water and serve as before.

  63. Cook onions in very little water until tender; drain slightly, add celery and other ingredients.

  64. Finely-sliced celery may be cooked with the potatoes, and onions omitted.

  65. Trumese with Onions= Lay slices of broiled trumese in baking pan, cover with sliced onions and sprinkle with salt mixed with browned flour.

  66. Or, simmer without browning, chopped raw onions in oil, before adding flour.

  67. Cook tomato, onion and bay leaf together until onions are tender; then add dry ingredients (which have been mixed together), and the lemon juice.

  68. But I don't think she heard this, and I went and sat on the onions because I could see the hole better, and the smell of them kept me awake.

  69. There was a heap of onions running to seed, the fagots of firewood which Valeria had brought that afternoon, and an old cask or two.

  70. Don't let that trouble you," said Tom; "you have the steak and onions and when you get your bill that will take your breath away!

  71. He would have to admit to her that as far as he could see, he was destined to go on living indefinitely in a jerry-built apartment, with the odour of fried onions below, and the four children and the phonograph overhead.

  72. Mr. Mix said nothing: he was wondering how soon he could get to his private caché, and whether he had better put in a supply of young onions in addition to cloves and coffee beans.

  73. And I meant to tell you the wall-paper's peeling off in the dining room, and the most awful smell of fried onions keeps coming up the dumb-waiter shaft.

  74. Add two onions sliced thin and two good-sized cold potatoes sliced; cover, cook slowly stirring with a fork occasionally.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.