gumbo

Example Sentences

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In the case of gumbo or succotash, it is a good thing.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2025

Adults are about two feet long and weigh some 15 to 20 pounds, with plenty of meat for a gumbo or stew.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

Luckily the street is an artists’ enclave, with some opening their homes for Hantman’s dinner receptions — one in January served gumbo family-style two doors down at a local artist’s Midcentury Modern house.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024

As the bits and pieces of this great big gumbo of a country come together, new and surprising things are created.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

Together they had defeated gravity and conquered the soft gumbo of Chicago soil, to change forever the character of urban life; now, together, they would build the fair and change history.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson