cucumber
Example Sentences
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While herb-flecked tomatoes and cucumbers are a classic combination, Rafidi often swaps in roasted squash, pumpkin or whatever else beckons at the market once fall’s chill sets in.
The rocks are densely covered by Bathymodiolus mussels, tube worms, shrimp, amphipods, and vivid purple sea cucumbers.
From Science Daily
Her racks of happily decorated packets were moving fast — marigolds, melons, radishes, carrots and about eight varieties of cucumber.
From New York Times
Yet later on in this same documentary, we see him at a public event where someone fires and charges at him, and he is cool as a cucumber.
From Salon
“Cool as a cucumber” might be better phrased as “cool as a mushroom.”
From Science Magazine
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