SAUCE in a Sentence

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On the contrary, they seemed to add a zest to it by contrast, and were only sufficiently present to serve as an appetising sauce.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAUCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sauce
 n.  stewed fruit served with other foods
 n.  appetizing ingredients for meat, fish or puddings
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  As I watched them while they all stood clustering about the forge, enjoying themselves so much, I thought what terrible good sauce for a dinner my fugitive friend on the marshes was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
2  On the last Sunday, they invited me to dinner; and we had a loin of pork and apple sauce, and a pudding.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
3  I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
4  Then turbot with thick sauce, then.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
5  Levin obediently helped himself to sauce, but would not let Stepan Arkadyevitch go on with his dinner.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
6  We had to ask them, and I made them sauce for eighteen pence, and everybody was very much pleased with it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
7  And though the answer meant nothing, the general looked as though he had heard a witty remark from a witty man, and fully relished la pointe de la sauce.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 28
8  He poured sauce freely over Stephen's plate and set the boat again on the table.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  He heaped up the food on Stephen's plate and served uncle Charles and Mr Casey to large pieces of turkey and splashes of sauce.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flour-fattened sauce.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  Gumboes and shrimp Creole, doves in wine and oysters in crumbly patties full of creamy sauce, mushrooms and sweetbreads and turkey livers, fish baked cunningly in oiled paper and limes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  Also, that in Henry VIIIth's time, a certain cook of the court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
13  On the contrary, they seemed to add a zest to it by contrast, and were only sufficiently present to serve as an appetising sauce.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
14  Eh, mounseer, Russian sauce seems to be sour to a Frenchman.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
15  The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Add a little more liquid to the sauce.
2  Leave the sauce for at least one hour to allow the flavours to blend together.
3  Strain the sauce and skim away any fat that rises to the surface.
4  Stir the sauce gently until it begins to boil.
5  What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
6  Bring the sauce to boiling point.
7  Remove the pan from the heat and continue to stir the sauce.
8  Tomato sauce stains terribly - it's really difficult to get it out of clothes.
9  Cook the sauce over a medium heat until it thickens.
10  Pour the sauce over the pasta and serve immediately.
11  Pass the sauce through a sieve to remove any lumps.
12  Prepare the sauce while the pasta is cooking.
13  Stir the sauce to prevent it lumping.
14  Stir the sauce to remove any small lumps.
15  Make sure patties are just barely covered and add water as necessary to replace sauce that has cooked down.