CELERY in a Sentence

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For CELERY, below is one of 6 sentences:
He had been told that celery was a capital thing for the blood and he was just then under doctor's care.

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 Meanings and Examples of CELERY
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celery
 n.  widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked
Classic Sentence:
1  As Gabriel never ate sweets the celery had been left for him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
2  Freddy Malins also took a stalk of celery and ate it with his pudding.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
3  He had been told that celery was a capital thing for the blood and he was just then under doctor's care.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
4  This, Mrs. Crupp said, would leave her at full liberty to concentrate her mind on the potatoes, and to serve up the cheese and celery as she could wish to see it done.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
5  As she came into the small business-section she inspected a broad-beamed grocer in an alpaca coat who was bending over the apples and celery on a slanted platform in front of his store.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Chop the celery and add it to the salad.