gruel

Example Sentences

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But this may be thin gruel for someone with Boris Johnson's outsize personality.

From BBC

Though the orphan boys at the workhouse are beaten regularly and fed only gruel, the sign looming above them reads “God Is Love.”

From New York Times

She injected fluids beneath the bats’ skin with a needle and syringe and hand-fed them a gruel made of mealworms, she said.

From Washington Post

Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy called the speech "thin as gruel", accusing the prime minister of "flip-flopping its rhetoric on China".

From BBC

By late April, Ms. Babeush and other adults in her bunker were rationed to a single meal a day, mostly a gruel of canned meat mixed with water.

From New York Times