potato
Example Sentences
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Folded into shepherd’s pie under a blanket of mashed potatoes.
From Salon
Everything became more expensive at the start of the year: meat, milk, salt, flour, potatoes, pasta, bananas, soap, toothpaste, socks, laundry detergent, and many medicines too.
From BBC
He stabbed his fork into his mashed potatoes and savored the sound of the metal tines hitting the plate.
From Literature
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He dug a vegetable garden in the rich soil at Fire Mountain’s base and planted avocados, bananas, lettuce, oranges, pineapples, strawberries, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes, and bamboo for making pipes and useful things.
From Literature
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The Spud Truck serves jacket potatoes to support families who cannot afford meals outside of term-time.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.