Example sentences for: gravy

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

  • The gravy formed strings as I lifted the fork to my mouth.

  • Other readers, such as Jon Mills and Pat Solotaire, showed outright suspicion of entrees like “Roast beef with `gravy' ” and a liquid soap boasting “ `Contains No Phosphates!

  • But they serve that with beef and put gravy on it, so I don't know what bread you spread your mint jelly on when it is served with lamb.

  • French names for foods are common: poulet frit fried chicken Kentucky; moules mussels; frites French fries; poutine French fries with curd cheese and gravy (named after a Colonel Poutine who was in charge of provisions at the Siege of Quebec in 1749; at the end, the only stores remaining were potatoes, cheese, and chicken stock; local folk etymology has it from putain, putanesca ); aubergine eggplant (the usual word in Britain); jarret de boeuf shin of beef; caribou a fortified sweet wine, etc.

  • The entry for chism , for instance, which reads in full, Heard in Maine for gravy or cream sauce.


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