deli
Example Sentences
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A beautiful loaf of bread from your neighborhood bakery or a great dip from the deli counter will always beat a resentfully assembled dish.
From Salon
They all had tiny squares of pink-frosted cake—one of the few sugary items the deli sold.
From Literature
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Beyond restaurants, supermarket salad bars, deli cases, freezer aisles and prepared-food counters are full of ideas you can borrow shamelessly.
From Salon
Sunday dinner meant going out for Chinese food; during the week, it was frankfurters with sauerkraut and mustard at the corner deli.
She perhaps represents a refreshing antidote to the kind of cooks whose recipes involve complicated ingredients you have to hunt for in a deli - instead, expect to find Marmite, fish fingers or frozen peas.
From BBC
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