potato

Example Sentences

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The raw potato write-off, rising factory costs, and inflationary pressures contributed to a higher manufacturing cost per pound.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

A bottle cap or crease in a potato chip bag is fair game.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Despite explaining multiple times that it was made with coconut, I think half of them still expected a savory, dirt-like potato flavor.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

The judge accepted that Hayes did "join in" on two occasions by using the word potato or the potato emoji in messages, but that she did it to "fit in" and "make it seem OK".

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

All we’d been eating were the few fish we’d managed to poach from Cunningham’s stream and once in a while a wild onion or an old potato.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff