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
The book spans generations, beginning with quirky Ottokar, a pickler from Znojmo, Moravia, “the gherkin capital of the Habsburg Empire.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2016
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
The cacao-beans or kernels lie in a fruit something like a gherkin, about 5 inches long and 3 inches in diameter, and of a dark reddish colour when ripe.
From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
