pancake

Example Sentences

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The sign outside adds: "Grab a pancake, then the whole world."

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

Even when a potato pancake failed to flip on camera and spilled onto the stove, she accepted the mistake with grace, endearing her to similarly mishap-prone home cooks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Sweet breakfasts have never been my natural habitat—good oatmeal is a beloved, comparatively rare exception, as is a single yeasty, griddled buttermilk diner pancake swimming in syrup.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026

"We squished it flat, like a pancake," Zhao said, "and suddenly we had a low-cost, high-performing design that was much easier to fabricate."

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

“We haven’t seen you around here in a while, Mia,” he says, neatly sliding a pancake from the frying pan onto my plate.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass