cucumber

Example Sentences

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After a warm and ice-cold shower, he cleanses his face and rubs a frozen cucumber over it, which he says will reduce puffiness, acne and brighten his skin.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Farro with chopped cucumber, red onion and herbs.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Pegula gave an insight into what it is like facing the Kazakh, who she labelled "cool as a cucumber".

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

There's a bone-white lobster, suctioned up for examination at the surface, and a horned sea cucumber whose mast-like spikes collapse into black spaghetti when it arrives on the ship.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

We ate lunch—chicken salad sandwiches and cucumber spears, which didn’t need utensils—and then we headed back to the water, where Danny was throwing dives that the rest of us tried to match but couldn’t.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt