cucumber
Example Sentences
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At 11 p.m. that night he arrived at the hospital with 40 portions of rice, chicken, and a simple salad of cucumbers and onions.
The first is a savory dip for vegetables — lately carrot and cucumber matchsticks or sugar snap peas.
From Salon
"Just yesterday we found a kind of type of swimming sea cucumber, and we still don't know what it is," he added, calling the diversity he's seen "really, really astonishing".
From BBC
If I was embarrassed, I’m sure she was too, although, knowing her, she would be sitting as cool as a cucumber.
From Literature
Depending on the season, fields are filled with a variety of greens, cucumbers, eggplants, tomatoes and peppers, while herbs like basil, black sage, rosemary and marjoram perfume the gardens.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
