Sentence examples for boiling from inspiring English sources

These reached boiling point in the western city of Zhanaozen in late 2011 when authorities opened fire on striking workers, leaving at least 14 dead.

There's no difference in the shower and when you do the washing up it's still boiling hot.

In fact my home is quite fragrant, and the smell that's likely to waft the way of our frequent visitors is not urine but the spaghetti bolognese boiling on the cooker to feed the three kids.

Everyone knew that it required a process of salting, boiling, rubbing, drying, roasting, and glazing so fiendishly complex that Confucius himself would have balked and ordered a takeway.

This last scandal reached boiling point recently when the editor of the Malaysia Today website filed a court document implicating deputy PM Najib Tun Razak's wife in the murder.

Instead of stirring the rice to release its creamy starch, as one would with risotto, the grains are left alone, so "the rice retains its 'soul', its inner shape", but, "by boiling it in the right quantity of stock or water it will absorb all the liquid as it cools down gently, and by the time it is completely cold it will be very sticky".

You must press the ends together firmly, squeezing until the dough adheres to itself, otherwise the bagels will unravel during boiling and baking.

Many recipes dodge the issue by pointing you towards "packet instructions", but Stein suggests dunking them in boiling water for two minutes, while Luu goes for 5 10 minutes, "until soft".

You want a hard egg, you put it in boiling water and you boil it for a while.

But there's an extra blood-boiling frustration for women who find the window between being overlooked for promotion (because they might have a baby) and overlooked for promotion (because it's a bit late now) dismayingly small.

So PWRs became the mainstay of America's nuclear-power industry as it grew up in the 1960s, with the boiling-water reactor (BWR)—a similar light-water design, less efficient and unseaworthy but in some ways simpler and possibly safer providing an alternative.