potatoes
Example Sentences
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Wodehouse caper: “Jacqui Cutler trudged into her expansive kitchen, looking every bit as worn out and miserable as someone who had spent the morning digging potatoes, which she most certainly had not.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Trying to find people that will accept potatoes like that is very difficult. So that ultimately means a lot of wastage for us," Munns added.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Those "knobbly and misshapen potatoes" however are absolutely fine to eat, she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Once potatoes became an important food source, however, people with higher AMY1 copy numbers appear to have gained an evolutionary advantage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Fred still had more—food that he had hidden in the barn—and when we took even that away he began to steal tomatoes and potatoes from the garden.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
