cucumber
Example Sentences
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Models wove through the scattered tables, clad in the latest fashions, as ladies nibbled on cucumber sandwiches and sipped tea from white porcelain cups.
From Literature
“And then Sally will bring out tea and shortbread while we talk. Or if it’s after one o’clock she can bring out cucumber sandwiches. Is it after one?”
From Literature
A big salad, a platter of sliced cucumbers, a bowl of herbs — anything that introduces a little brightness to what will inevitably become a carbohydrate-forward spread.
From Salon
After a warm and ice-cold shower, he cleanses his face and rubs a frozen cucumber over it, which he says will reduce puffiness, acne and brighten his skin.
From BBC
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
