ketchup

Example Sentences

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A ghost stuck forever in the Halloween costume she wore — a ketchup bottle — on the night she died.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

What about a cappuccino after dinner, ketchup on pasta or parmesan on seafood pasta?

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Cooper climbed onto a table and began moving ketchup bottles, utensils and cups around as if they were different types of ships and military equipment engaged in a real-world scenario.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

I have tenderness, of course, for the loaf of my childhood — the one bound with Italian breadcrumbs and glossed with ketchup, unapologetically tomato-forward, studded with green pepper.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026

A man dressed as a ketchup bottle is trying to decide between keeping his gold envelope or trading it for curtain number three.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt