ketchup

Example Sentences

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To some in Illinois, letting the storied team leave for Indiana might look like a sin worse than putting ketchup on a Chicago hot dog.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

“It doesn’t do a thing, you know, for what the ketchup tastes like.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

I have tenderness, of course, for the loaf of my childhood — the one bound with Italian breadcrumbs and glossed with ketchup, unapologetically tomato-forward, studded with green pepper.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

With Warren Buffett gone, ketchup is no longer flavor of the month.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

When a hungry pigeon tries to steal a bit of hamburger bun smeared with ketchup, Nate rushes at the poor bird and sends it squawking.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott