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    Use "potato" in a sentence

    potato example sentences

    potato


    1. ‘Of course it matters!’ he shouted, striding over to where I am standing and snatching the peeler and potato out of my hands


    2. and buy a small piece of cooked meat and some potato


    3. He had a few pennies in his pocket, enough to sleep in a barn perhaps and buy a small piece of cooked meat and some potato


    4. ‘Now, what happened?’ he asked as I help myself to another potato


    5. I told him this Yoga story about keeping a potato near one’s skin and he looked at me in sheer amazement


    6. He was completely puzzled as to how I had got hold of this old ‘gipsy’ secret, so it seems that way back in time, gipsy or Yogi, they had respect for the humble potato as a powerful cure for arthritis


    7. It need not be a very large potato as apparently the smaller ones work just as efficiently and I must say more conveniently


    8. An over-large potato carried upon the person could lead to all kinds of questions and complications


    9. The potato should be discarded when it either grows very hard like a stone or else becomes soft and wrinkled, and should be replaced by a fresh one, but make quite sure it is a winter-crop one


    10. You could keep it in your pocket during the day and at night slip it into the toe of an old stocking and draw the other end over your hand so that the potato does not roll away from you while you sleep

    11. For good measure, while you are on the potato cure, you should drink potato water, which is one of the very best alkalizing drinks and helps the system to eliminate the impurities which are to blame for your complaint


    12. Drink the water first thing in the morning, at least once or twice during the day, and just before you slip your hand into that stocking with the potato in it before you hop into bed at night


    13. If you visit your local health shop you will find all kinds of vegetable extracts and salts with which to make your potato water more drinkable


    14. It should come as no surprise that Miss Jones’s experience at the forefront of integration and social inclusion should provide her with the moral courage and the fortitude to deal with her next hot political potato


    15. ‘What is this place?’ I asked, through a mouthful of potato


    16. “Now this,” she began holding a plate with one hand and a large spoon with the other, “is similar to your earth potato, we call it a Yumata tuber; we mash it also and sprinkle it with Tyra salt


    17. There’s some salad … what can I have with that? Anything in the tinned line? Ah yes, a tin of tuna in mayo … that would go nicely with the salad and maybe a jacket potato … sorted! Feeling very righteous after my session at the gym and carrying a plate of healthy dinner, I mooch into the lounge … don’t much fancy TV … a book it is! By nine thirty, I am nodding, so call it a day and go to bed


    18. 'A jacket potato perhaps?'


    19. The potato is good and filling but not at all controversial, gastronomically speaking


    20. She forced down some of the potato and hoped no-one was watching

    21. That question kept reappearing in her thought repeatedly, as she peeled the potatoes for potato pancakes


    22. " he answered looking back down for another potato


    23. Nate could smell the food from where he stood and it seemed to consist mainly of boiled turnips, potato and cabbage


    24. Fried chicken, mashed potato with butter, peas, gravy, corn


    25. Cut off the excess fat that you don’t need and don’t slather your potato in al the “fixings


    26. continue being a couch potato? That would say that your


    27. and coaxing an unicorn with some potato chips that Kellie


    28. What follows is an epic struggle for justice, featuring, among other things, the Loch Ness Monster, a potato with gunshot wounds and the occasional interspatial warp matrix interface


    29. Esther was delighted with all, heaping on more mashed potato and gravy when required and followed by second helpings of bread and butter pudding


    30. It had been a few weeks since any mail or care packages had made it into the city, and the buzz of excitement was strong among the rest of the Marines, who were already munching on potato chips, beef jerky, and pouches of tuna as they sat against the wall, or on their cots, while some just stood around in a circle showing off pictures of home, girlfriends and babies

    31. Cold ham, baked potato and


    32. and asked Annie, the cook, if she would save the bones and potato


    33. Sift confectioners' sugar over potato mixture a cup at a time


    34. "My mom's Irish Potato Candy


    35. In a mixing bowl, combine the potato, salt and vanilla


    36. Sift the confectioners sugar over potato, stirring and adding about 1 cup at a time


    37. Frank sped the car up through what seemed like a potato field and William struggled to hold on and avoid bouncing out of his seat


    38. A failed rescue attempt is a hot potato for any Government and most unwelcome for them


    39. Using a pair of stainless steel tongs, she took a baked potato from the oven and scored it with a cross


    40. At that point, I would have worn a potato sack if I thought it’d make her happy

    41. When Colling arrived to pick her up at noon, he had a basket in the rear of the jeep from the Weisse Hirsch that Herr Schuler and his wife had packed with ham sandwiches and potato salad


    42. ” Christina’s smile falls, and she pokes at her potato with her fork


    43. (We’ll leave that hot potato for textbooks


    44. I do not know if Shockley was right or wrong, but I do know we need all kinds of inquiry into the function of our brains and it should be welcomed as a teaching tool, not as a hot potato


    45. Sure, there had been famines in the world, such as the Potato Famines in Ireland in the 1840s and the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma when topsoil was carried away in the wind in the 1930s


    46. I went for an onion and potato bread, followed by a soda bread


    47. The soda bread was beautifully soft and trumped the onion and potato


    48. Snacks soon followed; more bread, this time potato filled, served with aubergine


    49. “I saw you eating potato chips in the library again,” said Akito sternly


    50. She picked up a spoon and stirred the broth in circles, watching flecks of spice whirl into the center around chunks of potato













































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    Synonyms for "potato"

    irish potato murphy potato spud tater white potato solanum tuberosum white potato vine

    "potato" definitions

    an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland


    annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous