Example sentences for: pickled

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

  • New York City is a highly complex, weirdly evolved organism--kind of like a pickled old codger living on gin and cigarettes: He should have started behaving more sensibly a long time ago, but forcing him to suddenly do it now would be an act of cruelty, more likely to kill him than to make him healthier.

  • Read about the crew’s diet of “salmagundi,” a stew of pickled herrings, meat, and eggs mixed with wine and vinegar, which served to both preserve the protein and disguise the taste.

  • Earlier this summer, an out-of-town friend and I were taking in the Ballard Seafood Festival, an annual celebration of music, troll dolls, and pickled herring in the Seattle neighborhood that serves as Scandinavia's unofficial outpost.

  • When you see them at Woodstock it's through the aghast eyes of her daughter, who thought of herself as a groover until she caught a glimpse of Mom in a most unmomlike state of sexual ecstasy--Dionysically pickled.

  • The way he shoots the music here is tender and uninsistent; the camera floats past the tables of listeners until it comes to Emmet and his wonderfully pickled look of concentration.


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