Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cloves
IPA transcription: [kl'oʊvz]
Usage examples
  • Add 1 chopped onion and 2 cloves of garlic minced fine.
  • Season a leg of mutton with salt, pepper and a pinch of cloves.
  • Add an onion, four cloves, a blade of mace, a sliced carrot, and a bunch of sweet herbs.
  • Rub the venison with salt, pepper, vinegar, cloves and allspice; then put in a baking-pan.
  • And Niccolo, who the luxurious use Of cloves discovered earliest of all Within that garden where such seed takes root;
  • Add half a wineglassful of white wine, a sprig of celery, a bay-leaf, a sprig of thyme, two cloves, and salt and pepper to season.
  • Let cook slowly until tender; then scrape 6 carrots and cut thin; add 2 sliced onions, 2 cloves of garlic and let cook until tender.
  • Heat 2 tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan; add the ducks, 1 large onion chopped fine, 2 cloves of garlic and 1 herb bouquet chopped.
  • Mutton for roasting, should have a little butter rubbed on it, and a little salt and pepper sprinkled on it--some people like cloves and allspice.
  • Lay in a baking-pan with 1 sliced onion, 2 celery roots, 3 cloves of garlic and 2 carrots cut fine, 1 bay-leaf, a sprig of thyme and a few peppercorns.