Sentence examples for rubbing about from inspiring English sources

Grease and flour two 8 or 9 inch heart-shaped baking pans by rubbing about a teaspoon of butter all over the bottom and sides of each pan.

Grease and flour one 8-inch square pan and one 8-inch round baking pan by rubbing about a teaspoon of butter all over the bottom and sides of each pan.

Mix the other ingredients together and rub about a third over the pork.

It's a good idea to rub about a teaspoon of oil or butter on a cold pan each time you use it, Mr. Winter said, because despite the name nonstick, most of the cookware needs some kind of lubricant.

Rather than blotted, the images are painted using both hands – and who knows what other parts of the artist's body – pressed to the canvas and rubbed about with fistfuls of black acrylic in an awful symmetry of reaching and pawing, rubbing and smearing, fingering and fondling.

The production is not about provoking but about rubbing your back; not about narrative but about reminding you that there once was a black person who sang a bunch of intense songs, threw gravel in your face, and then got murdered.

I practiced on a supermarket bird, rubbing in about a half cup of kosher salt and allowing a couple of days for the salt to draw out moisture and then for the meat to reabsorb it.

Continue rubbing for about 1 - 2 minutes each side.

But what about those seemingly benign habits we don't even think about, like rubbing our eyes or sleeping on our side?

RIO DE JANEIRO — The diplomatic jousting between Argentina and Britain over drilling for oil off the coast of the disputed Falkland Islands may be less about rubbing salt in old wounds than about exposing new ones of the Argentine government's own making, political analysts and energy consultants said.

Get a spray bottle, making sure to wash it out very well, and place about a teaspoon of rubbing alcohol and about a teaspoon and a half of dish soap.