gherkin

Example Sentences

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The gherkins “symbolized for me the last thing you have in your cupboards when you run out of everything. It starts from the last gherkin jar, and from there it all goes south.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

Burger King posted a poll on Twitter asking what people preferred on their burger; tomato or gherkin.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2022

In the melting pot we call Amur’can, Disagreeable stew has been perkin’, Made from yammering yam With a thick slice of ham And a limp, insignificant gherkin.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2017

Collectively it is like the plates offered by doomed, over-eager contestants in Masterchef: chilli and kiwi fruit vanilla gherkin lemongrass.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2012

"Not much of a yarn certainly," replied the stranger, holding his bottle up to the light while he speared a gherkin with his knife.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph