rasher
Example Sentences
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As written, the recipe needs nothing more than a generous swipe of cultured butter and a plate of soft scrambled eggs, maybe a rasher of bacon if you’re feeling traditional.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025
Braised wagyu beef cheek was less tender than it should have been, but butter and dark chocolate enriched the sauce, cambozola sharpened the accompanying gratin, and a crisp rasher of speck capped the dish.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2018
Isabella’s creation includes an angus patty with jalapeños, red onion, cheddar, Swiss, rasher bacon, guacamole, tomato chili jam, dijonnaise and herb aioli on a brioche bun.
From Time • Aug. 4, 2015
David Lean's grimly black-and-white Oliver Twist, released in 1948, muffles the book's raw, coarse alternation of murder and mockery, which Dickens likened to the layers of meat and fat in a rasher of streaky bacon.
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2011
He will drop me like a rasher of bacon into some gigantic frying-pan sizzling with fat.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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