gruel

Example Sentences

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If you can have the "full-fat option", he asks, why would you go for the "fairly thin gruel" on offer at the moment?

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

One side of her mouth swallows the rice gruel while the other side drools and spits the food back out.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung