mate
Example Sentences
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I’ll get a maté there as a little pick-me-up.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2024
No wonder Sanchez said she drank the highly caffeinated South American drink maté on the shoot every day — a fitting beverage for a show in which each episode feels like a shot of espresso.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2021
You’ll canter with the cowboys across vast grasslands, and trade stories over maté.
From Time • Sep. 25, 2017
There are meals of carne asada and manioc soup; parleys over endless rounds of yerba maté; social scandals that erupt at horse races; deadly tropical fevers; and red dust, relentless sun, and clouds of mosquitoes.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017
"And quite late in the afternoon the reply was left at the door: 'I am an applicant for the vacant place, if you will take that of master's maté.'"
From Duffels by Eggleston, Edward
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