Example sentences for: spices

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

  • The abbreviated boeuf à la mode --no geography necessary for this national plat du jour --is, of course, and as correctly described in Amelia Simmons's American Cookery, a round of Beef cooked with spices and vegetables.

  • They turned their noses up at trade with the Romans, but China offered many bounties, such as silk, musk, and amber, in exchange for India’s spices, jewels, and perfumes — as well as parakeets for the ladies’ boudoirs and monkeys for their cooking pots.

  • From here, the long, narrow arcade called Nakamise-dori is lined with shops selling toasted rice crackers, spices in gourd-shaped wooden bottles, dolls, toys, fans, children’s kimono, and ornaments and souvenirs of all sorts.

  • Rounding what is now known as the Cape of Good Hope, da Gama found what Columbus had been searching for in 1492 (although in the wrong direction): the sea-route to the lucrative spices of the East.

  • For roasted nuts, dried fruits, coffee, and spices, the 150-year-old shop E&A Gispert (c/ Sobrerers, 23) near Santa María del Mar is a treat for at least two of your senses.


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