Example sentences for: helpings

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

  • (Maybe even a day or two sooner if Slate 's hearty software developers are willing to suspend their centuries-old common-law right to a three-hour lunch break, double helpings of Caesar salad and salmon hash, and 1.3 liters of a tolerable sauvignon blanc, followed by a nap of at least two hours' duration.

  • But since the Much More came, and several additional, large, indigestible helpings on top of it (and still the president didn't fall!)

  • Do I think its social and economic benefits might be better distributed in some other way (health insurance, for example), are often illusory, come with large helpings of inequality, sexism, psychological torment and so on?

  • Stress (evident in terms like prowler, skulker, lurker , as well as Trojan horse, worm, vulture, leech ) is soothed with (or disguised by) a variety of linguistic palliatives: generous helpings from pop culture ( cookie monster, Kermit ) and science fiction ( cyberpunk, core wars, cosmic rays, emoticon ); chummy diminutives ( archie, newbie, smiley ); and jingly rhymes ( snail mail ).


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