ambrosia

Example Sentences

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Whisked egg yolks and sugar get spooned on top, like a frothy, golden ambrosia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“Nothing calms me down,” Marge says, “like making a fresh batch of ambrosia salad. With plenty of grapes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

One of his early experiments was ambrosia — a salad so retro it borders on parody, but so striking in his hands it practically glows.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2025

The Kentucky volunteers also have to watch over the trees throughout the year to protect them from the destructive ambrosia beetles, whose larvae would quickly kill half of the orchard if left unchecked.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023

Not even birds can pass them by, not even the timorous doves that bear ambrosia to Father Zeus; caught by downdrafts, they die on rockwall smooth as ice.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer