gruel

It became something closer to porridge, or gruel, which delighted me.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

Gregor Townsend gave something of a party political broadcast on behalf of the positivity party in the aftermath, a promise of jam tomorrow after gruel today.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

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

Eunjoo took the rice they’d gotten and mixed it with the fish and soup to make a rice gruel for Junha.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Agriculture softened our ancestors’ diets with processed gruels, stews and yogurts, and this fare led to gradually shrinking lower jaws to produce today’s overcrowded mouths.”

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2019

Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Milk and cream, soups and milk gruels, as well as all dishes made with milk or cream, add materially to the fat-forming quality of the diet.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.

Place the sheep in a house, or any comfortable situation, bed it with straw, throw a horse-rug over it, and promote the purging by warm gruels.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose

Milk, buttermilk, koumiss, broths, albuminized beverages, and cereal gruels such as barley and oatmeal gruel and arrowroot gruel can be given.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.