Sentence examples for set to boil from inspiring English sources
Then there were the jokes: "Put two quarts water in stock pot, add salt, set to boil.
(I liked to watch water set to boil on the stove, to see it quivering with heat before it burst into bubbles).
No matter what time of day the change occurred, my grandmother had her soup set to boil at that precise moment.
Low-earners are his frogs set to boil more slowly, as they shift on to universal credit and take the hit by degrees, while a million of the disabled lose their employment support allowance.
Whole leaves were weighed fresh and set to boil in 50 mL distilled water for 10 min in a microwave oven at maximum power; samples were sieved through a plastic colander, leaf segments and the colander were rinsed, and the solution was made up to 100 mL.
Mr. Adams's work, based on his opera "Doctor Atomic," sets to boil disparate themes from the opera, evoking the busyness of the historic events recounted.
At nine o'clock every evening, we set water to boil for the washing up and I'd put my favorite Aretha Franklin album on the stereo.
He kept his back turned to her as he filled the kettle and set it to boil.
They set it to boil anew in spring water, adding 26 pounds of sliced pork, several dozen onions, heads of garlic and fistfuls of cumin and bay leaves.
Set it to boil on your stove.
