Example sentences for: stew

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

  • You won't believe, children, what a literary-intellectual event this overheated stew of the obvious and the idiotic became.

  • pupton ( n .) A variant of pulpatoon , a rabbit or fowl stew like a pot pie.

  • Critics heap praise on Cuban-born Valdés' second novel: The "rambunctious new novel is an appetizingly rich stew, full of the varied flavors of Latin culture … sumptuous …exuberantly translated" (Anderson Tepper, the New York Times Book Review ). Spanning 50 years in the life of a country girl who moves to Havana, the book is "a messy, passionate indictment of Fidel Castro's Cuba, packed with grotesque caricatures, implausible crises and generous dollops of magic realism" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). (Read the first chapter here, courtesy of the New York Times .)

  • Saddam's perpetual war with the United States plays well domestically as Iraqis continue to stew over the damage left behind by the Gulf War defeat.

  • Counting, for example, begins: wan, tu, tri, fo, fayif, sikis ...; while around the home you find stui stew, grevi gravy, pitsh peach, and flauwa flour.


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