loaf

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As one dinner began, my family unhappily discovered I’d poked a hole in the crust of a loaf of bread and hollowed out its soft insides for my own enjoyment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Or, as the writer John Updike once confessed, “I don’t like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburgers and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

"But it won't be down to the commodity prices - if you look at the value of wheat in a loaf of bread it's very small."

From BBC • Mar. 16, 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

She found a loaf of bread on sale for fifteen cents and a jar of peanut butter for seventy-one cents.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt