ambrosia
Example Sentences
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The zombie is ambrosia for the mind of the horror-media buff: it possesses the visual and visceral spectacle of necrosis, the ever-present symbology of death, the excitement of the interminably strange.
From Salon
She has all the assets that are ambrosia to the Democratic base.
From Washington Post
Scott keeps with him a trinket of his time at the sawmill, a tissue box he made from a bit of ambrosia maple he and Henry cut in North Carolina.
From Washington Times
The project he’s most proud of is an ambrosia-maple wood table with “a cool texture” created by burrowing ambrosia beetles.
From Washington Post
On the West Coast, the disease sudden oak death is a problem, and, in the South, the ambrosia beetle is a serious pest.
From Washington Post
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