hero sandwich

Example Sentences

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Layering cheese first in this Italian hero sandwich keeps the bread dry and fluffy.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

Smart's piquant gibes provide comedy meat in this sorrowful hero sandwich, and it's a flavor that shouldn't work here but it does.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2021

At the Se-Port Delicatessen in East Setauket, a hero sandwich called The Matz has been selling “a crazy amount” since Matz was called up to the majors, said Wisam Dakwar, the deli’s owner.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2015

In New York it is a hero sandwich; in the South, it is known, unheroically, as a poor boy.

From Time Magazine Archive

They died quickly, “the way a hero sandwich dies in the garment district at twelve o’clock in the afternoon,” as the poet Pinero put it.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez