POTATO in a Sentence

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For POTATO, below is one of 84 sentences:
Then they distributed hot buttered rolls, coffee poured from an enamel-ware pot, stuffed olives, potato salad, and angel's-food cake.

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 Meanings and Examples of POTATO
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
potato
 n.  a starchy plant tuber, one of the most important food crops, cooked and eaten as a vegetable
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Melly blushed, unaccustomed to such frankness, and signaled Peter to bring in the sweet potato pie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Then they distributed hot buttered rolls, coffee poured from an enamel-ware pot, stuffed olives, potato salad, and angel's-food cake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Still, when he had looked back from the gate, he had seen his mother kneeling among the potato parings.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  So he took a chop by the bone in one hand, and a potato in the other, and ate away with a very good appetite, to my extreme satisfaction.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
5  He afterwards took another chop, and another potato; and after that, another chop and another potato.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
6  The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
7  Then it was discovered that the greater part of the potato crop had been frosted in the clamps, which had not been covered thickly enough.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
8  But you can't give protection to every small potato.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
9  He took a potato, drew out his clasp knife, cut the potato into two equal halves on the palm of his hand, sprinkled some salt on it from the rag, and handed it to Pierre.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XII
10  Well, I knowed a potato would do that before, but I had forgot it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV.
11  Gulping down the bitter brew of parched corn and dried sweet potatoes that passed for coffee, she went out to join the girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Young boys dragged sacks of corn and potatoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  Bring them before you dig the potatoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  Her appetite never dulled, for whenever she remembered the everlasting goobers and dried peas and sweet potatoes at Tara, she felt an urge to gorge herself anew of Creole dishes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
15  The warehouse of the buyer of cream and potatoes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Sometimes an ellipsis can lead to a dangling modifier, as in the sentence "Once dressed, you should refrigerate the potato salad.".
2  We put butter and milk in mash potato to make it creamy.
3  He closed his hand upon it, squeezed, and the potato squirted out between his fingers in mushy streams.
4  This salad is made of apple, pear, potato and celery.
5  The number of products recalled from the shops is very high, with angry reporting from dead flies in tomato juice to a lizard in a bag of potato chips.
6  Like potato washing, it was soon imitated by other macaques in the troop.
7  The potato is the most popular vegetable in Britain.
8  The potato is vulnerable to several pests.
9  The cooking time needed depends on the size of the potato.
10  In Britain, the traditional Sunday lunch consists of roast meat, potatoes and other vegetables.
11  He scraped the potatoes before frying.
12  I always fry potatoes in hot fat with a bit of onion.
13  Bring the potatoes to a simmer.
14  We had to eat some potatoes substituted as a meal.
15  The farmer grows potatoes in this field.