gumbo

Example Sentences

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There’s a meat market there, and they have all the andouille sausage, which is good if I’m going to cook something like a gumbo.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

We should consider ourselves lucky that the appropriated accents aren't dripping with Northern gumbo, i.e. the kind that punishes us instead of lending flavor.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

Luckily the street is an artists’ enclave, with some opening their homes for Hantman’s dinner receptions — one in January served gumbo family-style two doors down at a local artist’s Midcentury Modern house.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024

As the bits and pieces of this great big gumbo of a country come together, new and surprising things are created.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

Before I could say anything in reply, she was across the yard, she and the cow squelching their way through the gumbo toward the sheep camp.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson