Example Sentences

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It is a wonderfully nourishing dish, but, like most well-boiled English cabbage, dull on the palate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simply by walking up and shaking a set of chitterlings or a well-boiled hog maw at them during the clear light of day!

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

"Here, bring along the hat, Evan; I'm going to crown the victor with appropriate what-d'ye-call-'ems," he continued, pulling a handful of sea-weed that looked like well-boiled greens.

From A Modern Cinderella Or, the Little Old Shoe and Other Stories by Alcott, Louisa May

I never purchased more radiant good-will for less money, but the combined effect of the well-boiled tea and the boiling orchestrion produced many village nightmares, so the mothers told me at chapel next morning.

From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Shepperson, Claude A.

Then she stole out and came back with a pitcher of hot, well-boiled tea, after which she tidied the room and made everything right for next day.

From The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith