pottage

Example Sentences

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In effect, for a mess of pottage, a public school sold an inflated but permanent artistic legacy to a private citizen.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

Yet there’s no glue — not a whiff of life or a single substantial, grounding directorial idea — that makes this pottage work scene to scene.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

You could call it a culture, but it was more of a participatory elegy for our own preempted lives, surrendered in advance for a pottage of depersonalized amusements.

From Forbes • Oct. 16, 2014

He’s Esau, consumed by the desire to trade back his mess of pottage for his birthright.

From Time • Aug. 20, 2012

If he was as quick in preparing the greens for the dinner pottage, he could go down to Mr. Richard’s house and talk to Harrison for a little while before Master and Olanna came back.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie