mince - use in sentences

Object

  • pie: Roast Beef, plum pudding, mince pies - Who likes them better, Happy Jack or I?
  • garlic: Useful Tips Freshly crushed garlic may be used instead of minced garlic.
  • lamb: You can also use minced lamb or pork instead of the beef.
  • pork: But you can also use minced pork instead of prawns, leave out the eggs and add or omit vegetables of your choice.
  • shallot: Minced shallot ( about 1 shallot ) 1 tsp.

Adjective modifier

  • raw: If you are sure the bird is an insect eater raw mince or tinned cat food can be mixed in.
  • lean: Baking potatoes in the microwave or oven and topping with beans or chili made from lean mince will make a filling meal.

Modifies a noun

  • pie: Organic mince pies were up 50 % followed by organic turkey at 33 % , the chain said.
  • meat: A big fight is taking place in South Africa and your soldiers will probably be cut into mince meat.

Modifying Another Word

  • n't: Why wo n't mince brown the way they tell you?
  • not: In his wartime essay, ' My Country Right or Left ' , Orwell does not mince his words.
  • by: Carols, followed by mince pies and soft drinks.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: God wants you to find your maximum expression dancing to His beat, not feeling pressured to mince around awkwardly to somebody else's.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • up: They were a bit like an office paper shredder, except more robust, because they were designed to mince up old plastic.

Used with why or when

  • when: Well my only answer to that is " why eat mince when you could eat steak " ?

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