- plural of potato.
potatoes
Example Sentences
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Those savings are not small potatoes: The skin substitutes cost taxpayers billions, and the figure has risen dramatically since before the pandemic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Building on last week’s lesson, this soup starts in the oven, where carrots, sweet potatoes, scallions, miso, hot honey and a deliberately assertive amount of spice get deeply caramelized before ever meeting the stockpot.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Smith was heading to a Louisiana Walmart distribution center to unload 37,000 pounds of potatoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
And if the situation gets even worse, he has already found a grower in the provinces where he can get his potatoes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
I jump out and run past her, bound through the kitchen, and catapult over a basket of potatoes with the leap of an adventure hero.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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