Example sentences for: chocolate

How can you use “chocolate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On entering the Naval Academy in 1944, I found that a small ice-cream bar in the basement of Bancroft Hall (immidiately under the main entrance and limited to upperclass midshipmen) was semi-officially known as “The Gedunk” (pronounced “gee-dunk,” with a hard g )--although the wares themselves were never called gedunks, but “chocolate sodas,” “sundaes.”

  • Many are so uncelebrated or of such transitory glory that they have been provided with identifying squibs: (cookbook writer) Maida Heatter's favorite is chocolate; (CEO, Bear Stearns) Alan Ace Greenberg's, omphaloskepsis (probably after eating kreplach and a good reason for finding another broker); (singer) Gloria Estefan's, houndation, weirdness, plethora, the first of which is not in dictionaries; and, finally, (entertainer, magician) Penn Gillette's dysphonic ruckus.

  • Here is a (partial) list of objects that Martha Stewart has gilded on recent TV shows: pomegranates, pumpkins, cookies, chocolate truffles, wrapping paper, oak leaves, acorns, and--no kidding--okra.

  • It consisted of a ladyfinger dipped between bites in a mug of hot chocolate, hence gedunk .

  • [From the text on a pint container of Hershey's Chocolate Milk.]


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