porridge
Example Sentences
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They sit in similar registers — closer to porridge than broth, a texture that my brain immediately interprets as nourishing.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026
But if electricity is only available sporadically, she says, "the food doesn't keep very well. There were cases when food was cooked in the morning and by dinner the porridge had become completely solid."
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
Breakfast is her favourite meal and she recommends eating porridge with a variety of toppings as a way to get some fibre in the morning.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026
In the Starkadders’ home, breakfast means congealed porridge, and cows are called Feckless, Aimless, Graceless and Pointless.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Instead, two giant vats of porridge were brought out from the kitchen on wheeled carts and pushed ’round the hall by blank-faced kitchen maids, who stopped once at each table.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing porridge
"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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