hero sandwich
Example Sentences
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Smart's piquant gibes provide comedy meat in this sorrowful hero sandwich, and it's a flavor that shouldn't work here but it does.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2021
At the Se-Port Delicatessen in East Setauket, a hero sandwich called The Matz has been selling “a crazy amount” since Matz was called up to the majors, said Wisam Dakwar, the deli’s owner.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2015
Food reproductions were easy to come by, Mr. Fasciano said, pointing out that the realistic plastic hero sandwich was sold by the foot online.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2014
An extension of cradling is the hero sandwich: the whole group, often as many as 35 persons, cuddle together in a formation rather like the football huddle, but far more intimate.
From Time Magazine Archive
They died quickly, “the way a hero sandwich dies in the garment district at twelve o’clock in the afternoon,” as the poet Pinero put it.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
