gruel

Example Sentences

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“You know, kids in other countries have no choice. They have to eat gruel for every meal.”

From Los Angeles Times

His only diversion was to make pictures using the hard bits of grain collected from the meager gruel his jailers gave him.

From New York Times

Wales' finance minister will certainly have an increased public profile before Christmas when she publishes the Welsh government's draft budget next week - although the indications are it'll be thin gruel.

From BBC

Labour's shadow housing minister Matthew Pennycook dismissed the government's plans, saying: "If this thin gruel is all we're getting in the King's Speech, leaseholders will have been failed."

From BBC

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

From BBC