cucumber

Example Sentences

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It’s awesome because they rub you from head to toe with body oil, then they wash your hair and give you a cucumber and yogurt mask.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

If you give one monkey a cucumber slice and you give another monkey a grape, the first monkey will throw the cucumber back at you—probably because you violated its sense of fairness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

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

With her cucumber hand she touched her new haircut.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy