open-faced sandwich

Example Sentences

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While living in Kentucky, I learned to love a Hot Brown, a mess of an open-faced sandwich that's smothered in velvety mornay sauce and topped with a single ruby slice of tomato.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2021

A version of the open-faced sandwich did manage to capture the fickle American interest with the momentarily ubiquitous and unfairly vilified avocado toast.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2020

Like toasts, tartines are a one-slice affair, an open-faced sandwich, a single piece of bread that accepts everything as a topping including scrambled eggs, aged cheese and truffles.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2017

But that is about the worst that can happen to you in Copenhagen, beyond the possibility of paying more than you think you should for an open-faced sandwich in a popular tourist area.

From Washington Times • Jul. 30, 2015

This brings us naturally to the biggest red herring of the sandwich debate – the open-faced sandwich, which, via an intentionalist approach, is not a sandwich at all.

From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2014