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Example sentences for "pints"

Lexicographically close words:
pintedly; pinter; pintle; pinto; pintos; pinwheel; pinxit; piny; pinyon; pinyons
  1. If we put it at 12 pints we shall certainly be within the mark.

  2. Two or three pints of cold water at a temperature of forty to forty-five degrees drunk at intervals of half an hour will reduce the pulse from eight to thirty beats.

  3. It is indeed important to emphasize the fact that properly to eliminate the foreign and waste products from the system requires, in a healthy person, at least five pints of water during twenty-four hours.

  4. When thoroughly mixed, add three pints of cold water.

  5. For six common sized loaves of bread, take three pints of boiling water, and mix it with five or six quarts of flour.

  6. Beat eight eggs with four table-spoonsful of rolled sugar--mix them with three pints of milk, half of a grated nutmeg.

  7. Beat eight eggs to a froth--mix them with three pints of milk, and turn them on to the rest of the ingredients.

  8. To three pints of French brandy, put four ounces of bitter almonds, or peach meats, and a couple of ounces of sweet almonds--they should be bruised before they are mixed with the brandy.

  9. Beat eight eggs with rolled brown sugar--mix them with three pints of milk, grate in half a nutmeg, and turn the whole over the apples.

  10. There should be about three quarts of water to three pints of the beans.

  11. Pull an ounce of mild white isinglass into small pieces--rinse them, and put to them a quart of milk if the weather is hot, and three pints if it is cold weather.

  12. Boil in three pints of water six or eight green stalks of rhubarb, a quarter of a pound of figs or raisins.

  13. To a pint of the strained pulp put three pints of milk, six beaten eggs, two table-spoonsful of melted butter, the juice of half a lemon, and the grated rind of a whole one.

  14. To replace the daily outgo, we need about two and a quarter pounds of food, and three pints of drink.

  15. About three pints of water are needed daily to dissolve the food and carry it through the circulation, to float off waste matter, to lubricate the tissues, and by evaporation to cool the system (see p.

  16. Why do we not need to drink three pints of water per day?

  17. Get one dozen pods of pepper when ripe, take out the stems, and cut them in two; put them in a kettle with three pints of vinegar, boil it away to one quart, and strain it through a sieve.

  18. German lentils, a good handful of spinach leaves, a few capers, about 6 chillies, and 3 pints of water.

  19. By pouring down his throat four pints of generous old ale, which would make him so happy and comfortable, that he would not have the heart to kick or bite anybody, for a season at least.

  20. Two pints will make one quart Of barley, oats, or rye; Two quarts one pottle are, of wheat Or any thing that's dry.

  21. Two pints will make one quart Of any wine, I'm told: Four quarts one gallon are of port Or claret, new or old.

  22. They get the money for a full pound and a full gallon, and we get fourteen ounces of food and seven pints of liquor, or less.

  23. I have a bottle of madeira or port every night, and pints of beer or claret.

  24. I've only drawn these two pints this morning.

  25. The grown-up flavor of half-pints had not entirely eradicated a youthful partiality for apples.

  26. To make apple jam, weigh the apple pulp after the juice has been drawn from it, rub it through a hair sieve, and allow one pound of sugar to one pint of pulp, and the grated rind of a lemon to three pints of pulp.

  27. Next boil separately three pints of milk, and add this to the strained soup.

  28. Add three pints of milk, and let two bay-leaves boil in the milk, flavour with pepper and salt, and add a suspicion of grated nutmeg.

  29. Add gradually two pints of water, a pound of black cherries, picked and washed, and a few cloves.

  30. Half a pint of bran is boiled in about three pints of water, and a certain amount of nutriment can be extracted from the bran, which also imparts colour.

  31. Take two onions, a carrot, a small head of celery, and boil them with the peas in from three pints to two quarts of water till they are tender.

  32. Put them into a stew-pan with a penny roll cut into thin slices, half a dozen cloves, and three pints of water.

  33. Such is the dose for a bottle of water Paris measure; but as the patient ought to drink two pints a day, you may make several pints at a time in the above proportion.

  34. One year I salted about the quantity of forty pints of them, and all the French who eat of them acknowledged them to be Sardines from their flesh, their bones, and their taste.

  35. This deer-skin contained thirty-one pots of the measure of the country, or sixty-two pints Paris measure.

  36. To make a cheap and excellent custard, boil three pints of new milk with a bit of lemon peel, a bit of cinnamon, two or three bay leaves, and sweeten it.

  37. Another way is to boil three pints of water with an ounce and a half of tamarinds, three ounces of currants, and two ounces of stoned raisins, till nearly a third is consumed.

  38. Barley Water is made of a handful of common barley well washed, and simmered in three pints of water, till of a proper thickness for use; but the longer the barley boils, the thinner the liquor will become.

  39. Boil two feet, well cleaned, in five pints of water till they are broken, and the water half wasted.

  40. Then pour the liquor on six pints of primroses, add some fresh yeast before it is quite cold, and let it work all night in a warm place.

  41. Stir in by degrees two pints of water, and three pints of milk, and strain the whole through a cloth.

  42. Prepare a kettle of boiling water, put five quarts of new milk into a pan, five pints of cold water, and five of hot.

  43. Mix three spoonfuls of good new yeast with six pints of hot water, and pour it upon the currants.

  44. Stew a pound and a half of scrag of mutton, with three pints of water till reduced to a quart.

  45. Wash extremely well an ounce of pearl barley; shift it twice, then put to it three pints of water, an ounce of sweet almonds beaten fine, and a bit of lemon peel.

  46. Boil the galls and logwood in six pints of spring or distilled water, until nearly three pints of water are evaporated, then strain it through a piece of flannel.

  47. To dye white gloves of a beautiful purple, boil four ounces of logwood, and two ounces of roche alum, in three pints of soft water, till half wasted.

  48. Take also a pound of water-dock roots, and boil them in six pints of water, adding an ounce or two of chrystals of tartar, till one third part of the liquor be evaporated; and drink half a pint or more of it every day.

  49. Boil one spoonful of ground rice, rubbed down smooth, with three half pints of milk, a little cinnamon, lemon peel, and nutmeg.

  50. A common drink for a sore throat may be made of two ounces of Turkey figs, the same quantity of sun raisins cut small, and two ounces of pearl barley, boiled in three pints of water till reduced to a quart.

  51. Every precaution being absolutely necessary to guard against a failure of water on board the different ships, the whole were put upon an allowance of three pints per man per diem soon after our departure from the Cape.

  52. In some measure to make this great deduction lighter, three pints of peas were added.

  53. The grain called dholl, which had been issued as part of the ration at the rate of three pints per man per week since the arrival of the Atlantic, was discontinued on the 25th, the whole of that article having been served out.

  54. Pour one and one-half pints of boiling milk gradually in, beating well with a whisk.

  55. Pour over this three pints of boiling water, stirring rapidly all the time.

  56. Potato Soup= 4 Potatoes 3 Pints of Milk Piece of Butter size of an Egg Small piece of Onion Take four large potatoes, boil until done and mash smooth, adding butter and salt to taste.

  57. He wouldn't have parted with his six hundred pints of beer for ten thousand devils.

  58. He had inherited twelve hundred pints of beer.

  59. Some one had given him a couple of pints of 1-1/2d.

  60. One-half pound of salt dissolved in 9 pints of water makes approximately a 5 per cent brine, with a salinometer reading of 20°.

  61. Some of these little indents held only a few pints of water, others a few quarts, and the largest only a few gallons.

  62. Another way: After washing the rice, throw it into plenty of boiling water--in the proportion of six pints of water to one pound of rice.

  63. Stir in by degrees two pints of water and three pints of milk.

  64. Pour into a saucepan three pints of mild ale, one tablespoonful of sifted sugar, a blade of mace, a clove, and a small piece of butter; and bring the liquor to a boil.

  65. Add also the juice of a small lemon, two bottles of lively water, and (last of all) three pints of cider.

  66. Pour over these one glass of brandy, two glasses of sherry, and three pints of mild ale.

  67. When his body was opened, the lungs were full of blood, "besides three or four pints that lay about them, and much blood in his head, which took away his sense.

  68. Indian pickles, let it boil a few minutes, then add three pints of white sauce (No.


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