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Example sentences for "stuffing"

Lexicographically close words:
stuff; stuffe; stuffed; stuffes; stuffiness; stuffings; stuffs; stuffy; stuft; stuk
  1. Raw cotton must not be brought on to a mine in any shape, either in its native state or as stuffing of bolsters or mattresses.

  2. Aunt Hepsy looked round suspiciously to see Tom stuffing something into his pocket.

  3. What's that you're stuffing into your pocket, Tom?

  4. Make the same dressing as directed for a boiled turkey, or boil them without stuffing if preferred.

  5. Stuffing for ducks is usually made with a little finely chopped onion in it.

  6. Make a dressing, as directed under the head of Stuffing of Various Kinds.

  7. In cutting the incisions, endeavor to make them wider inside than at the surface, so that the stuffing may not fall out.

  8. If stuffing is made of pounded crackers, the seasoning is the same, but crackers swell so much that two gills will be plenty for a turkey.

  9. Half the quantity of meat and stuffing for a small family.

  10. Prepare a stuffing of bread, pepper, salt pork, and sweet marjoram; make deep incisions in the meat and fill them with it.

  11. Cut off the strips of coarse fat upon the edge, make incisions in all parts, and fill them with a stuffing made of bread, salt pork chopped, pepper, and sweet marjoram.

  12. Make a stuffing of pounded cracker or crumbs of bread, an egg, pepper, clove, salt, and butter.

  13. Observe the same directions in stuffing them as for a turkey.

  14. For making the stuffing and gravy, see the directions.

  15. After two hours, pour upon the top the stuffing which you reserved, heat the lid again, and cover the meat.

  16. Taxidermy#: the art of stuffing the skins of animals.

  17. They were about up to his shoulder, but tough boys of their age, and in perfect training; while he, though strong and big, was in poor condition from his monstrous habit of stuffing and want of exercise.

  18. At the last hour, before stuffing the boxes, he would learn how the city was going.

  19. Peter himself can do pretty well in the matter of stuffing his stomach, but even he marvelled at the way those birds put the cherries out of sight.

  20. Oh," replied Jenny Wren, "they were over here a while ago when those little green cankerworms threatened to eat up the whole orchard, and they stuffed themselves on those worms just the same as they are stuffing themselves on cherries now.

  21. He's got some glass eyes out of a stuffed fox the moths ate, and he's bent on stuffing an owl, is Tom.

  22. They set my daughter at liberty next day, and she spoke very handsomely of the young gentlemen, and said they had cured the skins with saltpetre, and were stuffing them when she left.

  23. Nan ventured a shaky little laugh at this and began automatically picking up her things and stuffing them into her bag.

  24. You aren't stuffing cotton in the keyhole?

  25. Among the stiff and straight-backed chairs, one with stuffing would be found, while in the more luxurious and easy-going South they were not so rare.

  26. The figures in the tablets above the front rails are on French printed silk or satin, sewed onto the stuffing with borders round them.

  27. Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education; it does not form or cultivate the intellect.

  28. The stuffing with which it was necessary to stop it could be fixed to these chains.

  29. Hatton, a year ago, I removed the feather bed with which my predecessor, Deacon Hayford, had bolstered up his administration by stuffing the window, and substituted glass.

  30. Soon the amateur carver will plunge the shining blade into the unresisting bird, and the air will be filled with stuffing and half smothered profanity.

  31. I tried to keep out the sound by stuffing the pillow in my ear, but what is a cheap hotel pillow in a man's ear, if he wants to keep the noise out.

  32. It consists of a stuffed cucumber, and the stuffing is to be made of these pearls.

  33. The Sultan, noticing that his favourite dish of cucumber was placed before him, proceeded to help himself to it, and was amazed to and that the stuffing was of pearls.

  34. What's this fairy story about a portending lynching that Barton's been stuffing me with?

  35. Mongolians, stuffing the skin of a sacrificed animal by the, ii.

  36. The resurrection of Dionysus, related in his myth, may have been represented in his rites by stuffing and setting up the slain ox, as was done at the Athenian bouphonia.

  37. Now cut off the neck and the trimmings, and take out the shoulder-blade and make a pocket for the stuffing to go in comfortably, and send me a bunch of mint with it all.

  38. You wash it well and make a bread-crumbs stuffing for it with a good deal of seasoning, and after you cut out the strings and wipe it dry in the middle you stuff it.

  39. The roast was crisply browned and juicy within, and the delicious stuffing and broiled mushrooms were substantial and good.

  40. For collar and harness galls the same treatment will be found effectual, and the stuffing or padding of the articles that have caused the injury should be looked to without delay.

  41. The needle enters through a stuffing box whose gland is held by two small screws.

  42. Even when the work was done in the most careful way this method of construction gave a great deal of trouble from the leaking of the stuffing boxes or the jackets themselves.

  43. It therefore became necessary to attach them by means of stuffing boxes, which, on account of their large size [p223] and the necessity for keeping the weight a minimum, was a most difficult piece of work.

  44. Again he worked with frantic haste, stuffing in the last shreds and rags that could be spared from their bodies, whenever a dull glow from the other side revealed a crack in the barricade.

  45. And among the more normal working classes, still largely and blessedly predominant, neither the sitting nor the stuffing is so evident.

  46. As he would not stop the music, I stopped hearing it by stuffing my ears tight with cotton-wool.

  47. I watched black railway workmen and porters stuffing themselves with food in a most unappetizing way, and making disgusting noises of all kinds.

  48. The bottom of the canoe was so scraped in the violent collision that a good deal of the stuffing with which we had filled the longitudinal crack was torn off, and she quickly filled with water.

  49. He began stuffing all the things into the hole under the paper: "They're in!


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