gruel

Example Sentences

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By late April, Ms. Babeush and other adults in her bunker were rationed to a single meal a day, mostly a gruel of canned meat mixed with water.

From New York Times

Who benefited from the gutting but weathered the gruel?

From Washington Post

But it is thin gruel when you look across the capital as a whole.

From BBC

The Cleveland Daily Leader reported the next year that Whitman “is now living in Washington City, and having left off writing bad poetry he makes gruel for the sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals.”

From Washington Post

Cricket, by contrast, has to make do on thin gruel.

From New York Times