Potato

//pəˈteɪ.təʊ//

"Potato" in a Sentence (22 examples)

I like cold potato salad in the summertime.

Help yourself to more potato chips.

Medium-rare and a potato, please.

I would like a steak with a baked potato.

Joan dropped her husband like a hot potato.

The potato is native to the highlands of Central and South America.

These potato chips are good enough to make you want more.

A couch potato is something that I don't want to be.

After being ill for a long time, Jane turned into a couch potato.

This sweet potato is only half-baked and is still crunchy.

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Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned.

The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these.

A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper.

What was that about potatoes? Were they just a thing from foreign parts, like coffee; a luxury, an extra? Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same. It laughs at the weather, and will stand anything; only deal kindly with it, and it yields fifteen-fold again. … A man may lack grain to make bread, but give him potatoes and he will not starve. Roast them in embers, and there is supper; boil them in water, and there's a breakfast ready.

Although the potato actually has no exciting value, it was believed, in the seventeenth century, to possess definite aphrodisiac qualities, and is frequent mentioned in this respect in Elizabethan drama.

Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590 after being brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadores from their place of origin in the South American Andes.

The rocketing popularity of potatoes in London's diet led to the conversion of the temporary GNR passenger station north of the canal [...] as a dedicated potato terminal, whose significant traffic was stolen from coastal shipping.

I don't value Monſieur de Champignon a rotten potatoe; […]

When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.

If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.

Bradshaw doesn't find much humour in it though, and beats the tar out of Dustin, potatoing him with every blow.

Yvonne and Lee Swee potatoed Deputy Lestrade multiple times before Sheriff Moran potatoed them both. […] Suddenly, Sheriff Moran heard the click click of an empty weapon. He turned to see that both Mayor Eliza and Kat had run out of ammunition.

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