cucumber

Example Sentences

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There’s tzatziki, a salted yogurt and cucumber dip that’s rooted in Greek cuisine.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

"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 • Mar. 7, 2026

Pegula gave an insight into what it is like facing the Kazakh, who she labelled "cool as a cucumber".

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

This year, somehow, I careened straight from verdant, crisp summer food — cucumber salads, crisp chicken Caesar wraps, yogurt bowls, smoothies — into the warm-orange-and-brown spectrum of winter.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

A cross between a dud and a pickled cucumber.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque