johnny

Example Sentences

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Any day is a good time for a johnny cake, cornmeal flatbread topped with smoked whitefish and beads of salmon roe.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2017

Between procedures, I sit in a flimsy johnny in the waiting room, leafing through magazines.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2015

In Hollywood, where the dinner is $75 per person, dishes include: grilled whole lobster with saffron rice; rib-eye with Dungeness crab and béarnaise sauce; and johnny cakes with cured Arctic char and trout roe.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2014

Try me.” — johnny April 23, 2010 1:37 pm A few weeks ago, in Brooklyn Heights, I was trying to make a right turn but could not.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2010

Friday evening, when the light was failing and work over johnny took the silver pitcher and his own wax model and left the shop.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes