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Example sentences for "twelve minutes"

  • Have ready two eggs boiled hard, (which they will be in twelve minutes,) and laid in a basin of cold water for five minutes to prevent the whites from turning blue.

  • On the following day repeat the same; and the fourth day add a quarter of a pound more sugar to each pint of the syrup, and boil the quinces in it twelve minutes.

  • For those who like them under-done or rare, ten or twelve minutes will be enough.

  • Do not season it until it is done, which will be in about ten to twelve minutes.

  • It should be done in ten or twelve minutes.

  • About ten or twelve minutes to the pound is a good rule in boiling fresh meat.

  • Lay in the dripping-pan; pour a cup of boiling water over it, and roast steadily, twelve minutes to the pound, basting very often.

  • Proceed as for a caper-sauce in every particular except that you add three or four stalks of celery chopped fine, and then boil ten or twelve minutes, and strain it before using.

  • Work it with the hand for ten or twelve minutes, then put it into buttered pans.

  • Black tea requires steeping ten or twelve minutes to extract the strength.

  • The bread should stand ten or twelve minutes in the pans before baking it.

  • Cut it in narrow strips, take off the rind, and boil the squash in salt and water till tender--then drain off the water, and let the pumpkin steam over a moderate fire for ten or twelve minutes.

  • It requires from ten to twelve minutes to fry chicken.

  • Bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.

  • Roll out, cut with cooky cutter, lay on Criscoed tins and bake in moderate oven from ten to twelve minutes.

  • It should take from ten to twelve minutes.

  • In the first place, should their present regulation be adhered to, every subsequent culprit will be deprived of twelve minutes and a half of his existence.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twelve minutes" 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:
    foreign court; manor house; one hundred and fifty; play bridge; provided with; settled himself; shall now; silver dollar; thick paper; three francs; twelve cents; twelve days; twelve feet; twelve grains; twelve hundred; twelve inches; twelve leagues; twelve members; twelve millions; twelve ounces; twelve pounds; twelve stones; twelve thousand; twelve volumes; twelve years; worked out