gruel

Example Sentences

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By historical standards that’s pretty thin gruel, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it even might overstate job creation.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 15, 2025

“The market had expected a confident story of further margin development and was instead served a thin gruel as far as 2030 guidance was concerned.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

There’s a few different threads of criticism, some thinner gruel than others.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2024

But this may be thin gruel for someone with Boris Johnson's outsize personality.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023

One day she accused me of putting too much water in the rice, so that it was like gruel.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan