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

“There is only a little rice left in the basket,” said the old man, seating himself at the table in the middle room and stirring with his chopsticks the thick yellow gruel.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck