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 • Dec. 15, 2025

“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 • Oct. 10, 2025

There’s a few different threads of criticism, some thinner gruel than others.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2024

Pussy Riot released a song, “Like a Red Prison,” that includes the line “Balanda! Propaganda!” in reference to a gruel that has been fed to prisoners since the era of the gulags.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

The boys recited the Five Principles of Good Citizenship and the Four Attitudes Leading to Right-Mindfulness before trooping into the cafeteria for plankton gruel.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer