gruel

Example Sentences

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By historical standards that’s pretty thin gruel, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it even might overstate job creation.

From MarketWatch

“The market had expected a confident story of further margin development and was instead served a thin gruel as far as 2030 guidance was concerned.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“You know, kids in other countries have no choice. They have to eat gruel for every meal.”

From Los Angeles Times

During the long voyage, the meal offered to captives was usually little more than a worm-ridden gruel—a thin, watery boiled cereal—or a concoction called “dab-a-dab,” a mash of beans, rice, and corn.

From Literature

His only diversion was to make pictures using the hard bits of grain collected from the meager gruel his jailers gave him.

From New York Times