How To Use Boil In A Sentence

In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
FK - pressure-cook would be the best way, but you could try boiling it with plenty of water so that it becomes really mushy, then blend it in a mixer to make a thick soup. or you could use a regular slow-cooker that you get in the US, except that it would be a bit time-consuming: Gujarati Dal (Healthy Lentil Soup)
You can boil some brown rice and leave to cool for tomorrow. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish. From a College Window
This is a case of simmering rage and resentment at the stick from outsiders, which will come nicely to the boil at 8pm tonight. The Sun

Investigations indicated the fire started from a temporary storehouse at the building's rear adjacent to a boiler room.
Cook the tagliatelle in boiling salted water until al dente.
Creamy onion sauce slathered over lightly boiled eggs.
Conventional boilers heat up a store of water using a hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard and a header tank somewhere high - usually the loft.
The smoothly boiled porridge, with its accompaniment of thick yellow cream; the new-laid eggs; the grilled trout, fresh from the stream; the freshly baked "baps" and "scones," the crisp rolls of oatcake; and last, but not least, the delectable, home-made marmalade, which is as much a part of the meal as the coffee itself. Big Game A Story for Girls
Last week I got a whopping discount on a new gas boiler, on account of my age. Times, Sunday Times
In a medium saucepan, bring the lobster stock reduction to a boil, add the cream, and simmer until reduced by half.
Add all the remaining ingredients and bring to the boil.
The meat is divided evenly and boiled in a stew.
Pour the marinade into a small saucepot, and bring to a boil. Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Apricot and Rosemary Oven Ribs (RECIPE)
Bring to the boil, add the gelatine and stir to combine. Times, Sunday Times
If that doesn't change soon, the mutinous backbench mood could reach boiling point. Times, Sunday Times
Cook the inaniwa pasta in plenty of boiling salted water until cooked, then refresh in cold water and drain.
When reheating this soup, heat only until hot, not boiling.
Bring the caster sugar and 500 ml of water to the boil in a medium saucepan, then add the lemon juice, stem ginger, star anise and the vanilla pod.
The common employment of the designation carbuncle for a precious stone and also for a boil was usual from ancient times. Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious S
Although peeling isn't essential because this variety has a rather thin skin, it is an easy matter to plunge them into boiling water, drain and then slip off the skins.
Tightly woven wool, wool melton, felted or boiled wool, leather and suede along with faux leather and suede all can be clipped, snipped, slashed or punched without fraying.
Do you want a boiled egg for breakfast?
Once the tempering is sizzling, add the yogurt mixture and bring to boil. Archive 2005-03-01
For the Schlachtfest, Stralsunders gathered in hundreds, the women in their dirndls and men in old-fashioned suits, gobbling pig knuckle, leberwurst, knockwurst, dozens of waxy, greasy boiled potatoes, and of course, blutwurst. Blood Lite II: Overbite
The best way of getting pulses down my gullet is with dhal, in which split peas are completely melted, boiled with curry powder, garlic, chili, and then topped off with cumin seeds and garlic fried to a crisp which both add that magical aroma. Pinto beans, three ways | Homesick Texan
It was an infuriating trait, and it made her blood boil every time he came near.
Costs have been cut by changing the crude mix and switching the plant's boilers to burn gas rather than more expensive fuel oil. Times, Sunday Times
Add the vermouth, garlic and cayenne, boil the liquid away and start adding ladlefuls of the seaweed and saffron-flavoured vegetable stock, stirring vigorously all the while to aid absorption and prevent sticking.
Skim the fat from pan juices, and reduce the drippings by boiling them down to a delicious sauce.
Foolish Julie pulled a pot of boiling water from the stove.
It may have been the way the exhaust pipe stained his boiler suit.
This building also repaired tenders in steam days; a much taller section of the roof allowed boilers to be stood on end for riveting.
The result is a somewhat funny-looking, normal sized boiler chicken that carries the special naked gene.
Often treated as a separate craft in the open shop, welders are supplied by several unions in the organized sector, such as the boilermakers, plumbers and pipefitters' and ironworkers' unions.
I can't seriously believe Tiki Barber is the same person- that's what it boils down to. NY Daily News
And in such a case envy will be sure to work and boil up to a more than ordinary height, while the envious person frets, and raves, and swells at the plenties and affluence of his abounding neighbour, and (as I may so express it) is even ready to burst with another's fulness. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
And yet ever so simple, just hard-boiled eggs soaked overnight in beet juice. Archive 2005-03-01
It was not just the weather that reached boiling point that summer. Times, Sunday Times
Once the porridge has returned to the boil, it should be allowed to cook slowly for 20-30 minutes.
BEFORE installing a new system, it's important to make sure the boiler system you have is sufficient. The Sun
Pipes convey hot water from the boiler to the radiators.
King Edwards, for example are a dry floury potato that will disintegrate around the edges when boiled, so makes excellent mash, roast and chips.
The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
Russo said "interrogatories" have been filed by both sides, and that the case boils down to whether the trust is a "pool trust. Times Leader News
The economy has gone off the boil.
The hot springs and underground river that enter the lake results in the water on the shore being boiling hot.
When everybody else is boiling hot, I'm freezing!
The porringer was a very important article of table use, for pap, and soft foods such as we should term cereals, and for boiled pudding. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
The salmon they carried from Berwick was boiled, pickled in brine and delivered in barrels known as kitts.
Instead of the turkey, a boiled or roasted chicken (with the brown meat a little underdone) or a brace of stewed or roasted pheasants can be used.
Parched corn coffee was brewed by mixing roasted corn with boiling water.
To any bladdery bloggers attending my talk this afternoon, I issue this solemn pledge -- I promise to let fly with at least one or two irresponsible comments that you will be able to jot down and get a butt-boil about later. Whiz Kid: James Wolcott
He played brilliantly for the first set but then went rather off the boil.
Otherwise, you will much more readily find your way to boilerplate and cliche.
It is a slow-boiler of a film, an exercise in the suspense that spooky children, locked doors, creaking floors, mist, candles and shifty characters do best.
Concentrate the broth by boiling it.
The roasted fruit is emollient and used as a poultice in the treatment of gumboils, dental abscesses etc.
My creative juices boil at the prospect of national stardom.
It's going to boil down to keeping your pecker up, looking on the best side of things.
The real issue, they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity.
Then we built our fire in the outdoor fireplace to boil potatoes and heat up red beans for supper.
Another option is the boilersuit — the casual version of a jumpsuit. Times, Sunday Times
BTG is a subspeciality of BT, or Boiler Technician. Ask MetaFilter
It was not just the weather that reached boiling point that summer. Times, Sunday Times
Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.
~ -- Ores, &c., containing antimony are best opened up by boiling with hydrochloric acid or aqua regia; treatment with nitric acid should be avoided wherever possible, since it forms antimonic acid, which is subsequently dissolved only with difficulty. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
She put some potatoes on to boil.
It would be fun to eat soft-boiled eggs using the set shown in Plate XVI, which was found in the original fitted box.
Bring to the boil and cook for 4-6 minutes or until very thick and syrupy. Times, Sunday Times
Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent The Decameron
The boiler burns oil to produce heat.
She boiled up a large pan of water.
Some of the stiffness will boil out when you first wash the cloth.
The university's money troubles have been brought to the boil by the recent government cuts.
I helped for a day in a sugarbush collecting sap and watching it boil down. Archive 2005-10-01
Slow simmering retains the alcohol; fast boiling dissipates it.
Adjust the heat so that the soup doesn't boil.
Curd is boiled, cooled and whisked buffalo milk poured into earthenware pots and left to set.
Julienne the carrot and mooli, blanche in boiling water for a few seconds, and refresh in cold water. Times, Sunday Times
Fill a saucepan with water and bring to a slow boil.
Put the peel in a large pot of water and boil it until the peel becomes tender.
Basmati rice cake Serves 6-8 1 Boil the rice for 3 minutes in water, then drain.
Boil the report down to the key points.
If spots seem dried on, boil water in a glass cup a few minutes; steam should loosen soil.
Paul stationed himself in the bedroom window, and I was in the garden and the boiler had reached working pressure so I flipped the piston to start it.
But genuine co-operation between colonies seems always to boil down to pure parasitism.
Bring the soup to the boil and allow it to simmer gently for about half an hour.
The coconut is grated, strained and boiled to extract its oil.
It makes our blood boil when we read about people like this guy. The Sun
So he boiled an egg. Once he deduced it to be ready, he removed it, cracked it open and carefully placed it on his recently purchased egg cup.
Bring them to the boil, skim off the froth on the top and leave them to cook.
The gas man comethed this morning and replaced the whole of the heat exchanger doobry, which hopefully should fix the niggly problem that we’ve had with the boiler conking out every six months or so. Twas on a wednesday morning ...
Boil potatoes in salted water until tender but not mushy, about 8-10 minutes. Made in China Recipes: Classic American Potato Salad « Peace Corps: China
She advises which way we should jump, and almost invariably goes the American way, the argument generally boiling down to the fact that there are more Americans than Poms.
Boils of dark gloop, a mix of oil, water, sulphur and gas, burst up in the island's centre.
Which means a hard-boiled grade-A is an ideal muscle-repair food after a butt-busting workout.
Small dumplings, poached in boiling water then tossed with some kind of sauce, gnocchi can be made of potato, flour and ricotta, semolina, milk and cheese, and even polenta.
One word of advice: when you are boiling potatoes, whether to make mash or to roast them, don't let the water boil too vigorously.
Steam turbines use steam raised in a boiler as the gas that turns the blades.
Boil the sugar, vinegar, and cinnamon together until they begin to look sirupy. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals
A pump in the boiler sends hot water round the central heating system.
Put a pan of salted water on to boil.
Heat and boiling air struck her face like a hammer as she fell to the burning sand.
Friday's demonstration had a joyful and entrepreneurial air, with face-painters emblazoning the Egyptian flag on takers young and old, carts with fresh popcorn, and women offering hard-boiled eggs and koshary, the national dish of lentils, rice and pasta topped with a spicy tomato sauce. A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
Harding would only have had at his disposal sulphuric acid, but by heating this acid with the neutral fatty bodies he could separate the glycerine; then from this new combination, he easily separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin, by employing boiling water. The Mysterious Island
Serious answer: Condense the soup by boiling off half its water content.
Bring to the boil and slowly add the arrowroot mixture, stirring constantly until the sauce has thickened.
The boiler, washing machine and dryer are hidden beneath the stairs.
Small dumplings, poached in boiling water then tossed with some kind of sauce, gnocchi can be made of potato, flour and ricotta, semolina, milk and cheese, and even polenta.
Fueling boilers for power generation is one of the best ways of decontaminating garbage.
James was a boilermaker at Harland and Wolff's Liverpool shipyard.
Nearby, union boilermaker Pete Etoler drew a line between protesting politicians and disrupting the highest-profile event in the Hoosier State's history. Labor Torn on Super Bowl Protests
To form them use two very small coffeespoons or eggspoons, as the quenelles should not be larger than _small_ olives; butter the spoons slightly, and when formed drop each for one or two minutes into boiling pale-colored stock. Choice Cookery
The boiler came on with a burp and a quiet roaring, startling the misshapen shadow behind the torch. THE LAST RAVEN
Bring to the boil, add the fish, meat or bean curd you are using together with the pea aubergines and simmer just long enough to cook through. Times, Sunday Times
We were planning to boil it down later that night for a sugaring off party the next day.
Instead of circulating warm air throughout a home, a hydronic system pumps hot water or steam from a boiler through pipes and radiators or copper-finned baseboard radiators, and then returns it to be reheated and recirculated.
The awareness of the distinction salted / unsalted would have been strong in the Middle Ages because meat was regularly parboiled to tenderize it before roasting or frying.
Continue to boil for five minutes until setting point is reached again. Times, Sunday Times
Enjoy your evening of fine food, fine wine, and a floorshow featuring the universe as we know it boiling away into the cosmic void. Apocalypse? 6-6-06 Coming Right UP!
Here the common mode of using it is to cut it in small squares, and boil it in the mandioc pottage, which is the principal food of the poorer inhabitants and the slaves. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
She'd boil a dozen eggs to use later for deviled eggs - hers were zingy with mayo, sharp mustard, bit of vinegar, the perfunctory paprika.
Leave the oceans' bluefin tunas and billfish and sea turtles alone, but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain - as he shovels redfish into the boiler.
No plague of locusts descends, the oceans don't boil over with frogs, and the apocalypse isn't ushered in because of our discovery.
Therefore, the more expensive modern latex ulama balls are made by the traditional technique of using boiled rubber sap mixed with other ingredients required for vulcanization. History of Sport Resulting in Sudden Death Near Puerto Vallarta
Each morning, Mrs. A boils a potful of water and uses it throughout the day. Diffusion of Innovations
In Trainspotting, Begbie's blood boils at the backpackers who see the sights of the city centre but are blind to the blighted landscape of its surrounding schemes.
If the leccy goes off and it is probably going to go off this winter anyway you probably need power to keep the central heating boiler working. Weathering the storm
Fill a saucepan with water and bring to a slow boil.
There is an open fireplace with back boiler and the Belfast sink has a tiled drainer.
The club's former cloakroom attendant has been given the crazed grin of a bunny boiler and arms that seem more like distressed eels than human limbs. Times, Sunday Times
The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes.
Herbal teas, some made from steeped leaves or flowers and some derived from boiling bark or roots, used to be called simples, notes the herbal expert. Undefined
My Silesian cousin, who now lives in Germany, told me to use stock instead of boiling water – well, yes, this is tastier, but I consider it western decadence. Family life
After the grief came boiling anger. Times, Sunday Times
After his cult hit Withnail & I, writer-director Bruce Robinson teamed up again with Richard E Grant for this misconceived satire about an advertising whizz-kid who develops an alter-ego in the form of a talking boil on his shoulder. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
She had a boil lanced at the doctor's this morning.
The pictures soon came to symbolize the dispossessed of America during the Depression; to the politically minded, they exposed the truth behind the patriotic boilerplate.
In the 1850s and 1860s Glasgow engine builders set to work to solve the problem of steam at sea, the fact that marine boilers could only produce steam from sea water at low pressures.
Bring to the boil, add the blended cornflour and stir well. Times, Sunday Times
Bring to the boil over high heat. The Sun
This paper analyzes technically and economically the feasibility of producing ammonia by the pyrogenous coal gas from the pyrolyzating plant with circulated fluid bed boiler.
She never, not once, ate anything but lightly cooked calves ' liver, and lightly boiled whiting. ON CATS
Stripping asbestos insulation off boilers and from fire barriers, decommissioning chemicals and munitions factories, making damaged nuclear reactors safe, and clearing landmines are examples.
Scabies is normally treated with a scrub bath, boiling the fomites (clothes and bed linens), and application of benzyl benzoate. 11: Human health care
Do you think there's a whole ward somewhere in the bowels of the building where they spend long hours doing nothing but boiling cabbage?
Actually they're bean flakes that plump up to become frijoles after you add boiling water.
For water extraction of Sophora flavescens, 200 g of dried root was mixed with 1,800 ml of distilled water and extracted under reflux for 3 hr by boiling the mixture.
If using fresh tomatoes, plunge them into boiling water for 30 seconds, then pop in cold water, enabling you to peel the skins away.
Water was boiled in kettles, saucepans and other containers on the top of the stove, and baking done in the oven.
Hard boil the fresh quails' eggs for 3min, cool slightly and shell. 2.
Is it just me or does Iain Gray look like a boil-in-the-bag version of our own dear Rhodri Morgan? MacMorgan
Do you want a boiled egg for breakfast?
Coconut milk or cream is a thick sweet liquid produced by pouring boiling water over grated coconut, leaving it to cool, and squeezing the liquid from the pulp through a straining cloth.
My husband unfroze the boiler condensation pipe. Times, Sunday Times
The finished dumplings can be boiled in a saucepan of water for about 40 minutes or can be added to casseroles, soups or stews for the equivalent time before the end of the cooking period.
Ahead, lay a sleepy Nubian town, and beyond lay an angry cataract; the water boiled and frothed through the gorge and over hidden rocks.
Put water, butter and lard into a saucepan and bring slowly to the boil.
Combination boilers provide instant central heating and hot water, but are best suited to properties with one bathroom.
Too staid for the formation of ripples, too swift for calm content, the river seemed to boil up from below in a kind of frolicsome rage. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
Ads urged readers to become skilled, well-paid workers; hard-boiled heroes knocked heads with clients and agency owners over their workplace autonomy.
Even if the salad is dressed with strips of duck, bits of bacon lardons, goat cheese or sliced hard-boiled eggs, stay the course.
There were several newly baked wheaten loaves, and some hen's eggs, broken open and boiled in broth.
Telluric acid is reduced to tellurous (with evolution of chlorine) on boiling with hydrochloric acid. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
Given the turbulent and often violent nature of the times, the reasons a writer might choose to reflect them through the medium of hard-boiled detective fiction might seem self-evident.
They also calculate that by lancing the boil now the issue will soon be over with.
Once again the kettle will be on the boil and the ladies committee will look after the guests.
Thus Rukhi – and she turned to abuse her clumsy little handmaiden for overboiling the rice and overbaking the coarse rye bread, for not tethering the donkey, and for breaking a new pot of spring water. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
Markham suggests colewort - a sort of cabbage - boiled in ale, the ale to be drunk at every meal.
Dissolve the saffron in an eggcup full of boiling water. Times, Sunday Times
He boiled beetroot to sell and made and flogged ginger beer. Times, Sunday Times
Slightly off-centre, a constant whirlpool swirls and churns turbulently, sometimes spitting up a boiling fount.
With the flavours intensifying as the food simultaneously steams and roasts, and no juices lost or boiled away, the end result is bags of flavour (sorry).
In order for each batch of beer to taste the same, exactly the same amount of the same type of hops must be added at exactly the same time during each boil.
Mix the arrowroot with a little water, add to the sauce in the pan and bring to the boil stirring continuously.
My blood boiled and burned like acid fire within me but I forced my will to ignore it.
Then you can boil up the carcass for a turkey soup or stock.
They kept the kettle on the boil all day.
Their anger came to a boil
Return the chicken to the pan, add the chickpeas and stock and bring to the boil. Times, Sunday Times
Hard-boiled Dreams of the World, winner of the cerebral, intellectually appealing, mentally engrossing and reasonably highbrowed Thinking Blogger Award! Thinking Blogger Awards
Hot water plates are very convenient, and easily procured at any large china shop; but if they cannot be found, put the hot plate containing the chop over a bowl of boiling water, and cover with a hot saucer, fold a napkin around the baked potato, and you can carry the tray containing the dinner through cold halls and up staircases and it will arrive at your patient's room _hot. Making Good on Private Duty
Here I've got a pretty standard three-pot set-up, meaning I can have three colours at a time. Each pot, sitting in the water below, like a double boiler or bain-marie, contains up to 2kg of wax and 2 tablespoons of sterin.
Install a biomass boiler, burning biofuels such as woodchip, rape or sugar cane, and save around £200 a year in energy bills and around 8 tonnes of CO2 per year. Xml's Blinklist.com
It is impossible to measure their bulk properties, such as color, malleability, ductility, melting and boiling points, and densities.
For calking the seams they made oakum of dry seaweed, which was hammered in between the planks; then these seams were covered with boiling tar, which was obtained in great abundance from the pines in the forest. The Mysterious Island
Any rash that looks bright red, has crusted areas, sores or boils should be seen by your doctor.
Once water begins to boil,its temperature no longer rises.
The sapodilla is usually eaten raw, though in the W. Indies it may be boiled down to make a syrup.
The bittering hops are usually introduced to the wort say it "wert" and it is the proto-beer early in the boil and is present until the boil is over. Archive 2005-06-01
Marvelling at all the glass, all the metal and glass of modern London, the boiled chrome and hi tech mirror walls. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
When onions are very soft, add the tikka spice powder, tinned tomatoes and chopped coriander and bring to the boil. The Sun
The length of the boil depends upon the kiers; with the open kier about ten hours are usually given, with the Barlow and injector kiers, working at a pressure of 40 lb. to 50 lb., six to seven hours are given. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
Serve with boiled new potatoes and maybe some peas to add to the chicken just before serving. Times, Sunday Times
Swap white boiled rice for wholegrain to increase your fibre intake. The Sun
The price includes a separate, three-hour recharger, so you can keep the second (supplied) battery on the boil. Times, Sunday Times
It is a painful experience having the boil lanced.

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