cucumber

Example Sentences

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The first is a savory dip for vegetables — lately carrot and cucumber matchsticks or sugar snap peas.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 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

Farro with chopped cucumber, red onion and herbs.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

There's a bone-white lobster, suctioned up for examination at the surface, and a horned sea cucumber whose mast-like spikes collapse into black spaghetti when it arrives on the ship.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

She quickly occupied herself with tossing the chopped cucumber into the pitcher of salted, watered- down yogurt.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini