olio

Example Sentences

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In Italy, gelato con olio e sale — which translates to ice cream with olive oil and sea salt — is a popular dessert.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024

“Louise’s former aglio e olio was a greasy mess with mushrooms, cheese, limp noodles,” it said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

Our preschooler was famished, so we headed to the property’s Italian restaurant, where the attentive wait staff helped us match Sula’s wines with minestrone soup, insalata mista, pizza and spaghetti aglio e olio.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2020

While my parents made sure that I hadn’t poisoned my grandmother, I went back to the kitchen and whipped up a simple spaghetti aglio e olio, which I secretly preferred to chanterelles.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

This is the last act in the olio, so you will have to excuse me.

From The Real Latin Quarter by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)