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Example sentences for "stand over"

  • Allow them to stand over night in this brine.

  • If cake dough be mixed one day and allowed to stand over night, cakes may be rolled out much more easily and cut thinner.

  • This makes good bread and, as bread is apt to chill if set over night in a cold kitchen, or sour if allowed to stand over night in summer, set this sponge early in the morning.

  • Take the juice of twelve lemons; grate the rind of six in it, let it stand over night; then take six pounds of white sugar and make a thick syrup.

  • Let it stand over night; in the morning drain off all the liquor.

  • Mash some clean ripe raspberries to a pulp, and allow to stand over night.

  • Put a layer of the slices in a stone jar, sprinkle with the sugar, continue until fruit and sugar are used up, and allow to stand over night.

  • Pour over them a syrup made of half a pound of sugar for each pound of fruit; and allow to stand over night.

  • Chop these all fine and let stand over night, sprinkling a cup of salt on it.

  • Slice the cucumbers thin and let stand over night in a weak brine.

  • Cover with boiling water and let stand over night.

  • Pour over them a syrup made of a half pound of sugar to pound of quinces, dissolved in a little water and let it stand over night.

  • As soon as it begins to dry, rub off the excess across the grain with a handful of excelsior, waste, burlap, or rags and allow it to stand over night to dry.

  • The Swastika used as an inlay] When each piece has been pressed into place, allow it to stand over night.

  • Put half a dozen crystals in a quart milk bottle of water and allow it to stand over night.

  • Let it stand over night in a warm place to raise.

  • Sprinkle lightly with salt and let stand over night.

  • Place raspberries in a jar and cover with good cider vinegar, let it stand over night; next morning strain and to each pint of juice add a pint of sugar; boil ten minutes; bottle while hot.

  • Mix in flour enough to make a stiff dough and let it stand over night.

  • Stand over to Igloolik to look for Winter-quarters.

  • In the mean time, I requested Captain Lyon to stand over to the point of Igloolik, where our walruses had been landed, and to bring off these, as well as our boats and tents remaining there.

  • The sense of reprieve got the better of the new-born apprehension--bid it stand over for a while, at least.

  • The refutation would have to stand over; it was spoiled now, and the delicious sarcasm that was on his pen's tip was lost irrevocably.

  • And Tishy's passion for the shop-boy had to stand over.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stand over" 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:
    century church; eighty years; good bread; great charge; leagues farther; our love; stand alone; stand aside; stand away; stand close; stand for some time; stand them; stand upright; standard for hydrographic codes; standard work; standing armies; standing committees; standing erect; standing near; standing order; standing still; standing timber; standing water; stands pledged; swung round; though the