POTATO in a Sentence
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84 example sentences for POTATO, such as:
1. Bring the potatoes to a simmer.
2. He scraped the potatoes before frying.
3. Bring them before you dig the potatoes.
4. The farmer grows potatoes in this field.
5. The potato is vulnerable to several pests.
2. He scraped the potatoes before frying.
3. Bring them before you dig the potatoes.
4. The farmer grows potatoes in this field.
5. The potato is vulnerable to several pests.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of POTATO
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potato
n. annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
n. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1 Melly blushed, unaccustomed to such frankness, and signaled Peter to bring in the sweet potato pie.
2 Then they distributed hot buttered rolls, coffee poured from an enamel-ware pot, stuffed olives, potato salad, and angel's-food cake.
3 Still, when he had looked back from the gate, he had seen his mother kneeling among the potato parings.
4 So he took a chop by the bone in one hand, and a potato in the other, and ate away with a very good appetite, to my extreme satisfaction.
5 He afterwards took another chop, and another potato; and after that, another chop and another potato.
6 The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.
7 Then it was discovered that the greater part of the potato crop had been frosted in the clamps, which had not been covered thickly enough.
8 But you can't give protection to every small potato.
9 He took a potato, drew out his clasp knife, cut the potato into two equal halves on the palm of his hand, sprinkled some salt on it from the rag, and handed it to Pierre.
10 Well, I knowed a potato would do that before, but I had forgot it.
11 Gulping down the bitter brew of parched corn and dried sweet potatoes that passed for coffee, she went out to join the girls.
12 Young boys dragged sacks of corn and potatoes.
13 Bring them before you dig the potatoes.
14 Her appetite never dulled, for whenever she remembered the everlasting goobers and dried peas and sweet potatoes at Tara, she felt an urge to gorge herself anew of Creole dishes.
15 The warehouse of the buyer of cream and potatoes.
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1 Sometimes an ellipsis can lead to a dangling modifier, as in the sentence "Once dressed, you should refrigerate the potato salad.".
2 We put butter and milk in mash potato to make it creamy.
3 He closed his hand upon it, squeezed, and the potato squirted out between his fingers in mushy streams.
4 This salad is made of apple, pear, potato and celery.
5 The number of products recalled from the shops is very high, with angry reporting from dead flies in tomato juice to a lizard in a bag of potato chips.
6 Like potato washing, it was soon imitated by other macaques in the troop.
7 The potato is the most popular vegetable in Britain.
8 The potato is vulnerable to several pests.
9 The cooking time needed depends on the size of the potato.
10 In Britain, the traditional Sunday lunch consists of roast meat, potatoes and other vegetables.
11 He scraped the potatoes before frying.
12 I always fry potatoes in hot fat with a bit of onion.
13 Bring the potatoes to a simmer.
14 We had to eat some potatoes substituted as a meal.
15 The farmer grows potatoes in this field.