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Example sentences for "over night"

  • Sometimes, when I'm late, as I am to-day, her mother keeps me over night.

  • If the people come back we'll ask them to keep us over night--there's room enough.

  • I know just how you feel, and yet can we go up to one of these places, perfect strangers, and ask them to keep us over night?

  • Eggs, sugar, baking powder and spices must be well beaten, then mix with flour and citron; roll and cut and let lay over night or form into little balls and bake until they become dry inside.

  • Put in the cloth and rinse it about in the water, then be sure it is all under water and leave it over night.

  • Pour hot over fruit and stand over night.

  • Chop one head of cabbage, one bunch celery, one half dozen green peppers and one half dozen peeled and sliced onions fine together and let stand over night.

  • To thaw frozen meat, bring it over night into a warm room.

  • Where a brick oven is used, it is well to let beans remain in it over night.

  • Do not wash the tapioca, as the fine powder is the nicest part; but pick it over carefully, and soak it over night in half of the milk.

  • A little more yeast is necessary than for sponge-bread, and it should be made up over night.

  • Cover with cold water and soak over night.

  • When you want to keep soup from one meal to another, or over night, you must pour it into an earthen pot, or bowl, because it will turn by being allowed to remain in the metal pot.

  • Wash well a pint of split peas and cover them well with cold water, adding a third of a teaspoonful of soda; let them remain in it over night to swell.

  • Many cooks prefer soaking the fish over night.

  • Cover with a buttered paper, place a weight over paper and let stand over night in a cold place.

  • Put apples and sugar in layers in a kettle, cover tight, let stand 12 hours or over night.

  • Let rhubarb and sugar stand together over night, add other ingredients and cook slowly for about 3 hours.

  • If roots have become withered soak them in water as nearly ice cold as possible, for three or four hours or over night, before cooking.

  • Beat all together five minutes, stood the batter, closely covered, in a warm place, over night.

  • Stand yeast in a warm place near the kitchen range over night.

  • The dried prunes had been soaked over night in cold water, and allowed to simmer on the range in the morning.

  • I made it a point never to blacken all the boots and shoes over night, neither would I put any of them in the bar-room, but lock them up in a room where no one could get them without calling for me.

  • This country was full of pine timber, and every slave had to prepare a light wood torch, over night, made of pine knots, to meet the overseer with, before daylight in the morning.

  • After we were captured they took us off several miles to where one of them lived, and kept us over night.

  • Another object was, to do up their flogging which had been omitted over night.

  • If it has been in salt long, it is well to soak it over night in cold water.

  • If you have to keep it over night, it should be looked to the last thing when you go to bed; and if there is danger, it should be scalded.

  • The cream should stand down cellar over night, after being scalded, that it may get perfectly cold.

  • Next she inserted a silver knife in the jar to force all air bubbles to the top, fitted on a new rubber, sealed quickly, then stood the jar upside down over night.

  • The jelly bag was ready, and Adelaide poured in the fruit and the juice dripped over night.

  • These she covered and let stand over night.

  • When the fruit was soft, Adelaide poured the cranberries into the jelly bag and the juice dripped over night.

  • Pour on in a suitable vessel or crock, stir, and let stand, over night, then pour off clear and bottle.

  • You must also wear a mask of quilted cotton, wet in cold water, over night.

  • Anoint the face with this, leave it on twenty or thirty minutes, or over night if convenient, and wash off with warm water.

  • You can do that by soaking it over night in cold water; if it has any skin on it be sure to have the skin side up.


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