vegetable

Example Sentences

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Recently, I stirred a packet into an “odds and ends” vegetable skillet assembled from whatever happened to be lingering in the refrigerator.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Thirty kilometres from the district headquarters, the vegetable market at Atarra was already winding down before most cities had properly woken up.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Graciela Zuleta, an Indigenous vegetable vendor, now asks $1.10 for a kilo of tomatoes to cover her costs, up from $0.40 before the crisis.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Created by the L.A.-based multimedia collective Everything Is Terrible, WoWoW is alternately described as a “cosmic entity” and a “cartoony, root vegetable floating alien god.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Even though on paper I seemed like a vegetable, albeit one who sewed, Etta had never believed it.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman