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Example sentences for "spread over"

  • APB; c] for liquids to be spread over an area, spread liquids.

  • A2; b6] {1} flood or spread over an area.

  • A; b6] for water to come in or spread over s.

  • Beat the whites stiff with two tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, and when the pies are done, spread over them, returning to the oven for three or four minutes.

  • Spread over all a thick layer of cracker seasoned with salt, wet into a paste with milk and bound with a beaten egg or two, if the dish be large.

  • The rice is prepared as for croquettes, and is used when ready to be spread over a dish to cool.

  • Some almonds cut in small pieces may be spread over just before baking; or, when baked, some icing may be spread over.

  • The insides of well-oiled moulds are often ornamented with this sugar, which with a fork should be spread over them in fine threads or network.

  • Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.

  • But his anterior labour in making his barrow and his water-cask must, as regards remuneration, be spread over an indeterminate number of consumers.

  • The capital [p207] itself cannot be spread over a succession of purchasers, for this is rendered impossible by their indeterminate number.

  • This animal is spread over a very large tract of country, and is very common in Palestine.

  • This fine bird is spread over a very large range of country, and is found in the New World as well as the Old.

  • Small pieces of bread that cannot be used otherwise should be spread over a large pan, placed in a moderate oven and dried until crisp.

  • Add half a teaspoonful of vanilla, spread over top of first layer of candy and stand away until it hardens and is quite cold.

  • The most easterly one is spread over a large salt-creek valley, and forms a lagoon at the foot of some sand ridges, the highest of which is ten miles and a half from our last camp.

  • We then struck a creek, another tributary, spread over a large plain, very boggy, with here and there patches of quicksand.

  • To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

  • To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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