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

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

"We already have a giant gherkin in the City, now it looks as if we are going to have an enormous salt cellar as well," the Prince of Wales said in 2003.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2015

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

Then I does the same with a gherkin, and, my word, didn’t they all change their tune!

From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.