pancake

Example Sentences

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Even when a potato pancake failed to flip on camera and spilled onto the stove, she accepted the mistake with grace, endearing her to similarly mishap-prone home cooks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

"We squished it flat, like a pancake," Zhao said, "and suddenly we had a low-cost, high-performing design that was much easier to fabricate."

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

“The pancake was the size of the whole plate!”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

Sometimes the pitch is flat as a pancake, other times it spits like a cobra.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

While Papi sings his cha-cha-cha song in the shower, Mami asks me to translate the pancake recipe that’s printed on the Aunt Jemima box.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar