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How to use thickens in a sentence

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Add the milk and Parmesan cheese and simmer for one to two minutes, stirring constantly, until the sauce thickens.
Back on the ship, as the plot thickens and roils, our brave buccaneers flounder in the doldrums.
Add 2 parts beestings to 1 part water and stir over a fire or stove until it thickens.
When the butter has melted, whisk in a heaped tablespoon of flour and keep whisking until the sauce thickens.
New grass is tender and will not respond well to foot traffic until it matures and thickens.
After new oceanic crust forms, the lithosphere cools and thickens as it moves away from the ocean ridge.
Cook over a low heat until the mixture barely thickens and lightly coats the back of the spoon.
Add the cornflour mixed with rice wine, and bring to the boil, stirring gently until the sauce thickens.
Shock revelations follow as the story unravels, the plot thickens and the audience grows more intrigued.
Swap the whisk for a wooden spoon as it thickens, and continue stirring occasionally for 5 to 10 min over medium heat.
For the chive cream, lightly whip the cream with a small pinch of salt and pepper, so that it thickens slightly but is still runny.
Cook over a double boiler, whisking constantly until mixture thickens and lightens in color.
This muscle thickens near the urethra to form the internal and external sphincters.
When the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of the spoon, remove from the heat and add the heavy cream and Armagnac.
This is because magmatic material thickens the crust, creating uplift rather than subsidence.
The venous media thickens and forms multiple elastic laminae, a phenomenon called arterialization.
Boil milk with sugar, saffron, yellow colour and cornflour on low heat, add the egg yolk and boil till the mixture thickens.
Stir in the ginger, reduce the heat and cook gently until the syrup thickens.
The darkness thickens, closes in on me, drawing me into these eyes, and my surroundings sink into oblivion.
Return to the stove and cook over medium heat until the sauce thickens a little.
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The mouth and tongue become coated and swollen, the throat thickens and the voice sinks to a thready whisper.
When it thickens, pour over the apricot and apples, and bake for half an hour.
If enough of the chemical adheres to the living bacterium, the living protoplasm thickens and irreversibly coagulates.
Stir until the mixture thickens, being careful it does not curdle.
Add a glass of Marsala or sherry wine and whip until it thickens.
It thickens to the Iowan drift border, but is not found upon that drift.
As the juice of the fig-tree curdles milk, and thickens it in a moment though it is liquid, even so instantly did Paeeon cure fierce Mars.
A beef steak in any pot-pie thickens and enriches the gravy.
When it thickens, add the arrowroot, also mixed smoothly with milk.
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