PICKLE in a Sentence

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We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls.

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 Meanings and Examples of PICKLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pickle
 n.  a small cucumber preserved in vinegar, brine, or a similar solution
 n.  the liquid used to preserve food or other perishable items
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  "If you mean libel, I'd say so, and not talk about labels, as if Papa was a pickle bottle," advised Jo, laughing.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
2  Unfortunately, Mr. Davis particularly detested the odor of the fashionable pickle, and disgust added to his wrath.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
3  Mr. Bhaer smiled, as he glanced from the pickle factory on one side to the wholesale hide and leather concern on the other, but he only said politely, "You haf no umbrella."
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
4  Having satisfied himself that there was no risk of immediate discovery he went back to the kitchen with a lighter step, and found Mattie disconsolately removing the last scraps of pickle from the floor.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  There were the men in the pickle rooms, for instance, where old Antanas had gotten his death; scarce a one of these that had not some spot of horror on his person.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  Mattie seemed to feel the contagion of his embarrassment, and sat with downcast lids, sipping her tea, while he feigned an insatiable appetite for dough-nuts and sweet pickles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
8  Ethan reached over for another helping of pickles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
9  She poured out her tea, added a great deal of milk to it, helped herself largely to pie and pickles, and made the familiar gesture of adjusting her false teeth before she began to eat.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  Anna and Yulka showed me three small barrels; one full of dill pickles, one full of chopped pickles, and one full of pickled watermelon rinds.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
11  There was a lavish expenditure of bread and cold meats, coffee, and pickles and cheese.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
13  We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
14  Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to the cellar a jar of mushrooms she had just pickled, slipped, fell, and sprained her wrist.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
15  Boiled ham, cheese, pickled wa'nuts, if yer like.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence:
1  A jar of pickle will contain pickled cabbage.
2  Select your favourite fruit or veg and pickle them while they are still fresh.
3  Many a pickle makes a muckle.
4  He had some mixed pickles and rice for supper.
5  When Peter Piper picked a peck of Polly Potter's pickles, did Pete commit a major crime or just a peccadillo?.
6  Looking in the pantry, we admired the plenitude of fruits and pickles we had preserved during the summer.
7  The dish was accompanied by a variety of pickles.
8  This writer, also a tuna fan, opts for the ahi Napoleon with pickled ginger and sesame soy drizzle.