ketchup

Example Sentences

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A ghost stuck forever in the Halloween costume she wore — a ketchup bottle — on the night she died.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

What about a cappuccino after dinner, ketchup on pasta or parmesan on seafood pasta?

From BBC • May 9, 2026

“It doesn’t do a thing, you know, for what the ketchup tastes like.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

I have tenderness, of course, for the loaf of my childhood — the one bound with Italian breadcrumbs and glossed with ketchup, unapologetically tomato-forward, studded with green pepper.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

He goes for another bite of his roll but holds out, probably still mortified from having ketchup on his face.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera