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

I used to take johnny to the lake.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones