gumbo
Example Sentences
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On a recent morning, Nones took photos for a cookbook, shooting portraits of residents who submitted recipes for Romanian stuffed cabbage and gumbo, coaching them from his chair.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Adults are about two feet long and weigh some 15 to 20 pounds, with plenty of meat for a gumbo or stew.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 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 up 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
You wanted to dissect the animals quickly, before the spontaneous liquefaction began, because you can’t dissect gumbo.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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