Example sentences for: potatoes

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

  • Time to race ahead in the vehicle that saved our hero--unless, of course, they'd rather just hold back, stay at home, and become couch potatoes staring at reruns of Speed and Trixie.

  • Its pock-marked, lunar-like surface, 60 km (37 miles) long and 20 km (121/2 miles) wide, is dotted with more than 300 volcanoes, yet onions, potatoes, tomatoes, melons, and grapes all spring in abundance from the black ash.

  • English orthography's quixotic, chimerical vagaries, allowing such Cheshire-cat creations as ghoti (= fish, courtesy of G.B. Shaw) and Ghoughphthleightteeaux (= potatoes; see Firmage), are notorious.

  • The Enquirer reports that during a food fight scene on the set of his latest movie, actor Ben Affleck slipped on mashed potatoes, whacked his head on a table, and was knocked senseless.

  • Just as the year to year quality of oranges, potatoes, and tomatoes is determined primarily by the weather, so it is with grapes.


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