Sentence examples for first in water from inspiring English sources

If you're using wooden skewers, soak them first in water so that they won't burn when you are grilling.

(Try the recipes for homemade condoms, from the 1800s. "Take the caecum of the sheep," one begins. "Soak it first in water, turn it on both sides, then repeat the operation in a weak ley of soda").

As to the second problem, the description sounds like an infestation of mealybugs, in which case, a cotton swab dipped first in water, then in rubbing alcohol (to weaken the alcohol) would work.

By floating a hydrometer first in water of density ρ0 and then in some other liquid of density ρ1 and comparing the readings, one may determine the ratio ρ1/ρ0 i.e., the specific gravity of the other liquid.

Bratwurst sausages of pork or a pork-beef mix, grilled (though sometimes parboiled first, in water or beer, to reduce the risk of burst casings during cooking) and served with brown mustard, butter and onion.

It would take now a massive comeback by Spain to prevent the U.S. from winning its first gold in women's water polo, and its first in water polo overall since 1904 in St . Louis

Elizabeth Park, 31, of Los Angeles, said the lessons are the "first in-water experience for me". Her two sons are entering their third year of swim lessons at the YMCA.

This gives the rods enough power to spin around and move up to 100 times their own body length per second in water.

Sound has a velocity of about 0.33 km per second (0.2 mile per second) in air, 1.5 km per second in water, and 5 km per second in steel.

Peters' scholarship will allow her to study for two master's degrees over two years, one in poverty and development at the University of Manchester, the second in water science and policy at Oxford.

Sound travels about 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) per second in water, so that an accuracy of a few milliseconds in measurements of the time intervals gives depths within a few feet.