ketchup

Example Sentences

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To some in Illinois, letting the storied team leave for Indiana might look like a sin worse than putting ketchup on a Chicago hot dog.

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

Tattoos of parking chairs rank in popularity here just after bridges, the Steelers logo and Heinz ketchup bottles, said Zero, an artist with Kindness Solidarity Design in Greenfield.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

It is slow, unglamorous work for his volunteers wearing shirts and caps in party colours of ketchup red and mustard yellow, often involving speaking to groups of just a handful of voters at a time.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Spaghetti Bolognese is mince, spaghetti, and a blob of ketchup, normally.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell