peanut
Example Sentences
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“You’re welcome to come in and wait with me and my wife. We can offer you a peanut butter sandwich but that’s all.”
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He was a new kind of lizard: a kind that didn't eat bugs, only peanut butter.
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She used it to toss peanuts at the squirrels.
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Janie could do all the hand things better than Bat: write things, cut things out, smooth peanut butter on bread.
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The animals were captured using specially-designed traps filled with soft bedding and food, including oats, peanut butter, and Marmite -- which they find particularly delicious -- before being transferred to a footprint collection box.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.