noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bread basket (= for serving bread )
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There was a bread basket on the table.
a bread knife
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Will you pass me the bread knife?
be the hottest thing since (sliced bread) (= used about someone or something that is very good and popular, so that everyone wants them )
bread and cheese
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Lunch was bread and cheese.
bread bin
bread crumbs
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Coat with bread crumbs and bake.
bread rolls
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bread rolls with butter
corn bread
French bread
fresh fruit/vegetables/fish/bread etc
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The beans are fresh from the garden.
loaf of bread
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a loaf of bread
pita bread
pitta bread
sliced bread
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He reckons his new mobile phone is the best thing since sliced bread.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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A slice of black bread , supple as cardboard.
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Sprinkle with the cheese, black pepper and bread crumbs.
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I ordered red caviare and black bread and butter and two hundred grams of vodka.
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Serve with thin slices of dark or black bread .
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Eat it was, the goulash excellent, good black bread , and the wine very passable.
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Crushed coriander's heavy odour from black bread on the table.
brown
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On home-baked brown bread it takes the place of butter.
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The immediate success of these fillings, and the brown bread they came in, reflected John Bull's broadening palate.
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He came back with two slices of dark brown bread and a semi-transparent lump of fat on the top.
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Why should popular opinion hold that brown bread or brown sugar are so much healthier than the refined, white versions?
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Bread is usually white, although she buys wholegrain brown bread occasionally.
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Sausages and sauerkraut with brown bread .
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And guar improves the texture of brown bread .
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Thus creating a succulently flavoured ham that goes perfectly with a watercress and avocado salad and a few slices of brown bread .
crusty
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There would be a table groaning with smoked ham, with thick succulent slices of cold beef and crusty fresh bread .
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Dressed, warm, I move towards crusty bread , fragrant coffee, sweet oranges.
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Adjust seasoning, serve hot with salad and crusty bread .
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Meals begin with a tall loaf of crusty sourdough bread .
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Superb apple pie with sultanas and cloves, interspersed with crusty bread sandwiches of every description.
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Anyone who has tasted the sourdough bread made in San Francisco knows about chewy, crusty bread.
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A big bowl of salad, some crusty bread and fresh fruit is all you would need to serve alongside.
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Tempting as the warm, crusty sourdough bread is, go easy.
daily
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We heard this music - Mahler, Webern, Schoenberg - a great deal; it was our daily bread .
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For our daily bread accept our praise and hear our prayer.
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Murders, theft, rape, calumnies, graft - our daily bread .
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No seeker after truth should doubt that his daily bread will be provided.
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Our daily bread is concocted by chemists who do not sleep easy at night.
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It is our daily bread that we earn when we work.
dry
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I sat on the wheelbarrow and sank my teeth into a fresh loaf. Dry bread was the norm.
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We sat in our coats and ate a dry meal, bread and cheese.
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It went down well, with dry bread to mop up the water.
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His breakfast consists of dry bread and a cup of tea.
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Felt v. contented but tired. 1230 lunch, carrots, dates, dry bread .
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However, don't feed your feathered friends very dry bread , desiccated coconut or salty food.
french
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Sainsbury's have been baking french bread for many years.
fresh
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There would be a table groaning with smoked ham, with thick succulent slices of cold beef and crusty fresh bread .
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We figured perhaps four hundred people would each get a thick slab of fresh bread this morning.
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With a piece of fresh bread in his other hand, Jack spooned it all down hungrily.
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There were heaps of fresh baked white bread on the tables, gobs of butter, pots of marmalade.
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Food Breakfasts are sustaining with fresh bread , cold meats, cheese and coffee.
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It seemed to me that I could smell the odor of meatballs and fresh bread coming from neighboring apartments.
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The unsliced fresh wholemeal bread performed much better.
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The intoxicating aroma of fresh baked bread can, indeed, chase away the blues.
fried
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The fried bread surrounding the bacon in the hot plate was simply to create effect and mop up the excess fat.
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Then he speared a square of fried bread and dipped it in, turning it about until it was yellow all over.
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Sure enough I got mushrooms and fried bread as well as bacon and egg and tomato, and porridge beforehand.
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At this moment they were enjoying a sustaining breakfast of sausages, bacon, eggs and fried bread .
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His wife, Tessa, ate fried bread and tomatoes.
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Bacon, I thought. Fried bread and tomatoes.
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Watching a kid fiddling around with fried bread .
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Sausages, bacon, eggs, chips, baked beans and fried bread was a man's diet.
sliced
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The kitchen bread-bin yielded three loaves of wrapped sliced white bread, and a single granary loaf.
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Have thick crust pizza, extra potatoes, thick sliced bread or rolls with your meal.
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Now, I didn't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread .
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White sliced bread versus wholemeal bread is a simple example of this change at work.
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He wrote more shampoo, hairspray, deodorant and sliced bread commercials.
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On a smaller plate set before Frankie was a sandwich made with thickly sliced bread , best butter and strawberry jam.
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She began frying bacon and eggs, then filled the kettle and sliced bread for toast.
stale
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The gaoler returned hours later with a cup of brackish water, a bowl of badly-cooked meat and hard, stale bread .
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To listener Glenn Gargas, the report was as stale as moldy bread .
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Tears were trickling down her cheek and falling on to the stale , dark bread , but she seemed not to notice.
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She stopped cooking, and for days the boy and his sisters ate stale bread and tamarind jam by the spoonful.
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Jamie was moping around his flat, existing on cups of tea and stale bread toast.
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Say what you like, but this stale bread they served here was no substitute.
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Non-washable papers just need brushing down or rubbing with stale bread or a soft rubber.
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They know what's in the Safeways bag. Stale bread , of course.
white
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The kitchen bread-bin yielded three loaves of wrapped sliced white bread, and a single granary loaf.
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Little bitty pieces of white bread with fat greasy meat inside.
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Unless you desire the whitest possible loaf, unbleached flour is processed less and certainly white enough for white bread .
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The nutritive arguments still stand and I would not make a habit of eating lots of white bread .
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At one time in history white bread was too expensive for all but the very rich.
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Either way this is a great bread combining both the enjoyment of light white bread with the nutritional benefits of fiber.
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Crusty white bread , aromatic black coffee with thick sweet cream and buttery cheese had accompanied them.
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Because oat bran is very pale in color, this loaf looks almost like white bread .
wholemeal
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So, try wholemeal rather than white bread and fruit juice as opposed to squash.
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All the slimmer has to do is to add a daily allocation of skimmed milk and a slice of wholemeal bread .
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Dinner or supper consists of three courses; soup, a savoury snack with wholemeal bread and a choice of flavoured desserts.
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The diet is a wholesome one; healthy foods such as salads, wholemeal bread and semi-skimmed milk are used.
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The unsliced fresh wholemeal bread performed much better.
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Eat plenty of wholefoods, such as wholemeal bread , rice and pasta, sugar-free cereals, porridge, nut pulses and seeds.
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Mix together all ingredients and pile into a wholemeal pitta or on to a slice of wholemeal bread .
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Serve with a wedge of fresh wholemeal bread .
■ NOUN
bin
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Laura took a large plain loaf from the bread bin , and began slicing it.
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She went to the bread bin and seemed to be preparing to make herself a piece of toast.
corn
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Bake for 20 minutes or until corn bread tests done.
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We just got beans and corn bread .
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Unsweetened iced tea, fried catfish, hold the french fries and corn bread .
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With such passions flaring inside, I approached the development of corn bread with all due sobriety.
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Bake in 400-degree oven 25 to 30 minutes or until corn bread is golden brown.
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We had discovered the missing link in the corn bread saga.
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Spread the corn bread batter on top of beef mixture and arrange so that the batter is in strips across the casserole.
crumb
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Roll in bread crumbs and grill for half an hour.
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Sprinkle with the cheese, black pepper and bread crumbs .
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The swans in the Krasinski Garden were out on the lake and children were throwing bread crumbs to them.
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Dredge the fish in the bread crumb mixture, pressing crumbs on a bit to stick.
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Add white pepper and paprika, Corn Flakes or bread crumbs , parsley and whole egg and egg whites.
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The clams were mostly oil-drenched bread crumbs with a morsel of chopped clam buried at the bottom of the shell.
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Will the binder be potato, bread crumbs , mayo or a combination?
dough
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When I get to the township, three women have already prepared the bread dough in a bucket.
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Thaw bread dough according to package directions.
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Aunt Sarah was at the table, kneading the bread dough .
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You can not put uncooked grains of rice in a bread dough and expect them to absorb enough moisture to soften.
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The bread dough was starting to rise before its time, so Minnie jumped up and tackled the job in hand.
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Pizza dough is more oily than a standard bread dough.
garlic
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Their Chicken Kiev is delicious, and as for their garlic bread ... fabulous!
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There was a choice of vegetarian lasagne or lamb stew with baked potatoes, sweet corn and garlic bread .
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Close your eyes to that garlic bread literally squelching in butter!
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All dishes are served with a choice of garlic bread , jacket potato, new potatoes or french fries.
pitta
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Serve with crudités or fingers of pitta bread .
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Serve with slivers of warm pitta bread .
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Serve with warm fingers of pitta bread or Melba toast.
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Keep a packet of pitta bread in the freezer, heat up under the grill from frozen and cut into fingers.
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This is followed however by pitta bread , a cheese sandwich, crisps and a midnight bowl of porridge.
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Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with boiled rice and warm pitta bread .
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Use a slotted spoon to fill each pitta bread with the bean mixture.
roll
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Mountains of bread rolls surrounded the urn.
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Cripps Christmas dinners were not noted for their decorum nor their sobriety and sooner or later the bread rolls began to fly.
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Vern actually looked up from his last bite of bread roll as I came back in.
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The chef makes tasty bread rolls and grows his own herbs.
rye
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The fillings are as generous as their Stateside forebears and the rye bread has a nice, chewy texture.
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Even the rye bread is special.
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Hot water to drink and rye bread to chew.
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There was a time when rye was more abundant than wheat and rye bread was the bread of the masses.
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I would wear rags and live upon rye bread and water rather than be a harlot to the greatest man in the world.
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So I will give you two ways to make rye bread .
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This is chutzpah on rye bread with a side order of pickles and sour cream.
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They will cook the fish, eat the sweet warm flesh with chunks of dark rye bread .
slice
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Pour egg mixture evenly over bread slices .
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Place bread slices flat in pan.
■ VERB
bake
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While the strangers slept, Babushka baked some bread and thought about the men.
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Like baking bread , you have to know what you are doing to operate a stove.
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The most familiar popular smells are probably fresh coffee, newly mown grass, hyacinths and freshly baked bread .
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It was a festive occasion and the group had baked its own Communion bread .
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In the kitchen Maude was singing softly as she baked bread , its sweet, fresh scent filling the house.
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The aroma of hot baked bread also carries with it a built-in pitfall for the unwary.
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Felicity bakes the bread , singing.
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Two years ago, Earley played tennis, baked bread , sailed on the bay.
break
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It is this insight that is recalled every time Christians have gathered together and broken bread and shred the cup.
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It is in the breaking of bread that community is strengthened.
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As they broke bread it spurted and dripped blood, and their mirth was the rattle in a dying man's throat.
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Holly did not interrupt him, and broke his bread into small pieces and husbanded the crumbs.
buy
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She had disappeared after setting out to buy a loaf of bread from a shop near her home.
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This time we had not even bothered to buy bread or cabbages.
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She bought bread and orange juice and cornflakes and porridge.
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First I bought a loaf of bread and salami and made myself ten sandwiches to cross the country on.
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Jovana is 16 and works under-the-table, buying bread wholesale and selling it back to small stores.
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It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread .
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After lunch I go to buy the bread from Ulrich most days.
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The pair of pals would sometimes pop out together to buy bread and newspapers.
cup
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Place 2 cups bread cubes in greased dish; top with banana slices, coconut and remaining bread cubes.
cut
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She cut bread , spread butter, then Marmite.
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So she went to the cupboard and cut herself some bread , which she spread with butter.
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Still staring down, he began to cut another square of bread .
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But, be warned, when you cut into bread too soon you crush that spirit.
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She made herself a cup of tea, cut bread for toast, beat up eggs with grated cheese in a pan.
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Stir until smooth. Cut bread into ten pieces.
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To reduce weight quickly it is a good idea to cut out bread , potatoes and pasta.
eat
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I am too wasted to eat my bread .
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I finally got tired of it and vowed never to eat herbed bread again.
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Their reasoning is that, if people wanted pure carbohydrates, they would eat bread or pasta.
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From that time on she increased her austerities, slept on the earth, and ate only bread and water.
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But I do not eat more bread and meat or, let us hope, drink more wine or spirits.
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The nutritive arguments still stand and I would not make a habit of eating lots of white bread .
make
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Sneaking across the kitchen she made herself some bread and margarine.
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The manufacturer, which makes everything from bread to handguns and auto parts, said it was outperforming the economy in general.
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But making bread with large amounts of guar - more than 10 percent - creates problems.
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He was a scholar at college and now has become a scholar of what it takes to make exceptional-tasting bread .
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Sometimes I used to practise shooting in the garden while she was making bread in the kitchen.
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Believe it or not, making great bread takes a lot of thought and subtlety.
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We worked hard to get the corn in, and to make a lot of bread .
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He spent a whole year bumming from friends, crashing in strange places, selling weed with pals to make his bread .
put
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She put down the bread knife and rested her hands on the table.
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I told you put the bread in the refrigerator... keep it fresh.
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He put three slices of bread and some sultanas into a polythene bag.
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He put another piece of bread in his mouth and chewed.
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Jimmy put other slices of bread under the grill.
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She put the bread under the grill, and her hands shook.
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She put bread on the table.
serve
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Trickle a little oil over each salad. Serve with fresh bread .
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All of the sandwiches are served on rustica bread baked specially for the restaurant.
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Garnish with sprigs of parsley or a few fresh tarragon leaves and serve with crusty bread .
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The best deal was an appetizer of a garlicky baked artichoke dip served in a toasted bread boule.
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Put under a hot grill for a few moments until golden. Serve with crusty brown bread .
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Most people rarely consider the savory muffin, served as a bread course with entrees.
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She served me bread , butter, cheese, herring, and tea.
spread
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Butter or hard margarine is always spread lavishly on bread .
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This paste was then spread over bread and placed underneath the pheasant to collect its juices while the bird was roasting.
toast
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He sat by the fire and toasted a piece of bread for himself.
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The most interesting is Tramazzine, toasted pocket bread filled with smoked salmon or mushroom.
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Emily had turned towards the fire, holding the fork up to the flames, toasting a slice of bread .
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The best deal was an appetizer of a garlicky baked artichoke dip served in a toasted bread boule.
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You could toast the bread on your cheeks.
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Just before you toast the bread , halve, core and thinly slice the pear.
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Lightly toast the bread and spread the cheese over the warm slices.
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Top with toasted bread crumbs and serve immediately.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dry bread/toast
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After a cup of strong coffee and a slice of dry toast, she contemplated the day ahead.
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Felt v. contented but tired. 1230 lunch, carrots, dates, dry bread.
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His breakfast consists of dry bread and a cup of tea.
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However, don't feed your feathered friends very dry bread, desiccated coconut or salty food.
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It went down well, with dry bread to mop up the water.
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Serve chilled with hot dry toast.
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Who wants to count calories and munch on a piece of dry toast at such a time?
the best/greatest thing since sliced bread
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Now, I didn't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Please pass the bread .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Afrer two minutes of baking, open the door quickly and spray the bread again.
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Complete your meal with a selection of local cheeses, fresh bread and, of course, iced drinks.
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For this you have to pretend you are kneading bread .
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He put another piece of bread in his mouth and chewed.
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In a large mixing bowl, combine bread cubes and milk; let stand for 5 minutes.
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Then he speared a square of fried bread and dipped it in, turning it about until it was yellow all over.
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We sat in our coats and ate a dry meal, bread and cheese.