I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cheese sandwich
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I'll make you a cheese sandwich.
a chicken sandwich/salad/pie etc
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I'll make a chicken pie with the leftovers.
a sandwich course British English (= that includes periods of work in industry or business )
a sandwich/lunch box
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Most of the kids bring lunch boxes to school.
a sandwich/snack bar (= an informal restaurant or shop selling sandwiches/snacks )
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I usually get some lunch from the sandwich bar.
club sandwich
one sandwich short of a picnic
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He’s one sandwich short of a picnic .
open sandwich
open-faced sandwich
sandwich board
sandwich course
sandwich generation
submarine sandwich
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
grilled
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He makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches and scrambled eggs because of his fearless use of butter.
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A grilled cheese sandwich is not exactly a late-breaking recipe.
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When it comes to grilled cheese sandwiches , everybody has an opinion.
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Of all the grilled cheese sandwiches we made, this was our favorite.
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As for Lowe, she cooks her grilled cheese sandwiches in the oven, too.
open
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Lunches, dinners, bar meals and open sandwiches .
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Tabled'hôte lunch and open sandwich lunches also available.
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And catering for everything from carrot juice to champagne, open sandwiches to a 5 course meal.
■ NOUN
bacon
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He scanned the newsprint greedily while his teeth sank into the bacon sandwich , the melted margarine dribbling over his fingers.
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The bacon sandwiches are as good as ever, but Sokha's smile is missing.
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Leaning back, they closed their eyes and thought of hot water and soap and bacon sandwiches and mugs of tea.
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I left two dollars and a half-eaten bacon sandwich on the table and walked out into the street.
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David's bacon sandwiches were becoming locally famous.
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Toasted bagel with Marmite or, occasionally; a bacon sandwich .
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Breakfast was simple - coffee, and a bacon sandwich .
bar
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Because he had to have money he got a job working in a sandwich bar near Baker Street.
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Our customers are really varied from tiny sandwich bars to hospitals, stretching from London to Cleveland.
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The owner of the sandwich bar swabbed down the counter again and whistled an aria she recognised from La Traviata.
beef
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He slipped from the room and purchased a beef sandwich from the barman upstairs.
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Either that or an open-faced roast beef sandwich with mashed potatoes and peas.
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Henry's punishment was a cold beef sandwich and two slices of cake.
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Is anyone honestly dying for more roast beef sandwiches ?
cheese
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Just a wet walker in a woollen hat, eating a cheese sandwich in the rain.
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He makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches and scrambled eggs because of his fearless use of butter.
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Cereal and toast start the day followed by an apple mid-morning and a cheese sandwich at lunch.
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Not surprisingly, the result tasted more like a toasted cheese sandwich .
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She wanted a pint of recaff and a toasted cheese sandwich .
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A grilled cheese sandwich is not exactly a late-breaking recipe.
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My little boy has just rammed a cheese sandwich up my nose!
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When it comes to grilled cheese sandwiches , everybody has an opinion.
club
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Car ended up the thickness of a club sandwich on Upper Brook Street.
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As for room-service snacking, men favored hamburgers, while women opted for club sandwiches .
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Today for lunch I had a club sandwich and apple pie with ice-cream.
course
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Recruitment into first year full-time and sandwich courses in polytechnics increased by 15 percent in 1981-2, totalling 54,000.
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By the beginning of the 1970s the sandwich course commitment was accompanied by a variety of difficulties.
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Over 35,000 of them were on sandwich courses and over 13,000 were part-time.
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The majority saw little future for college-based sandwich courses , let alone the assessment of the industrial part.
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Students who undertake the four-year sandwich course spend the third year in industrial placement.
ham
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All she eats is a tongue or a ham sandwich .
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And what about the ham sandwich ?
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She longed for a thick ham sandwich and her bed.
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I went to the nearest deli and came back with a ham sandwich and a large container of coffee.
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Reid in London A bowl of cornflakes can kill you-not to mention a ham sandwich or a T-bone steak.
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Like Lindbergh, Signs brought five ham sandwiches on the 3, 610-mile trip.
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I ate a ham sandwich on white bread with dill pickles that soaked through the bread and made it soggy and green.
salad
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Ate half a chicken salad sandwich , threw the rest away.
■ VERB
bring
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I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine, and still went on reading Jane Eyre.
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Alice brought them sandwiches and everything.
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She brought sandwiches and a bottle of milk.
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Like Lindbergh, Signs brought five ham sandwiches on the 3, 610-mile trip.
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She brought him his sandwich and soda, placing it down like a mommy, passing a hand through his wet hair.
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Over the years, they'd become friends, he said, some bringing sandwiches and cookies.
buy
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Let's buy some sandwiches or summat.
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He bought deli sandwiches with strange-looking sliced meats inside.
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On the station he bought a sandwich and a cup of tea.
eat
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Just a wet walker in a woollen hat, eating a cheese sandwich in the rain.
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Tony ate five or six sandwiches at a sitting, his hulking form dominating the counter.
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Men could and did eat sandwiches while their female companions ate nothing.
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When she broke off the smoke, the Pilgrims had no fire, they sat around eating sandwiches and devilled eggs.
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He parked his tractor facing me about six feet from the far bank and sat watching me while eating his sandwiches .
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At noon they ate the sandwiches and then continued north through mostly open water.
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Later I called to him, and we ate our sandwiches together.
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Increasingly, people are eating sandwiches and pizzas on bagels.
finish
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He might as well let him finish his sandwiches .
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He finished his sandwich , undid a newspaper parcel, and took out a chunk of gray meat.
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I finished my sandwich , exchanged a few routine complaints about the weather, and set off for Leeds.
make
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He longed to take away enough for breakfast or make a quick sandwich of the horsd'oeuvres for later.
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To make the sandwiches , mound the salad mixture into the pita pockets and serve at once.
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Then the legs would be stacked on plates and the remainder of the meat sliced to make sandwiches .
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Perfect, he thought, making the sandwiches on Saturday night.
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This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all, at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight.
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It might be good for him to learn to make a sandwich .
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He makes a sandwich so big even he can't force it in his mouth.
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First I bought a loaf of bread and salami and made myself ten sandwiches to cross the country on.
munch
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He drove out of Brighton cheerfully enough, munching his sandwich , climbing the London road until he had breasted the Downs.
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He munched his jam sandwich and, between bites, belched.
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I remember when the sheep were quite happy nibbling grass and left me alone to munch my sandwiches .
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Yesterday, though, the cutlery was plastic as they munched sandwiches together at Fresh Fields.
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We now munch four million sandwiches a day.
order
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When they got to the bar he ordered a sandwich and took a bowl of tortilla chips to the table.
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We order some cold sandwiches and cold drinks.
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When they go straight to bed without so much as ordering a toasted sandwich or spending money at the bar.
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She ordered sandwiches and coffee and settled down in the lounge to wait for him.
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I feel like I should order you a sandwich or something.
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He ordered a sandwich and a bourbon with a beer chaser from room service and sat by the window while he ate.
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We would wish to order a sandwich lunch for those attending.
serve
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Constance helped by serving tea and passing sandwiches and cakes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
round of sandwiches
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bette concluded with a gasp and sank her teeth into her sandwich .
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Border Patrol agent at a sandwich shop on Highway 11, shortly after he dropped the men off.
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I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine, and still went on reading Jane Eyre.
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Keep in mind that these are all sandwiches, not composed plates with the pastrami here and the chopped liver there.
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Loved peanut butter and jam sandwiches.
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Their first pints washed down the sandwiches.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A layer of transparent dielectric material is sandwiched between the pieces of glass.
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Cut each cake into three equal portions horizontally, and sandwich them together again with the buttercream and jam.
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I found the file sandwiched in between two others, sealed, of course.
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I was sandwiched between two big men who joked over my head about how squashed they all were.
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My sisters and I realized that we are not a sandwiched generation, but a splintered one.
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Still maintaining the shape, sandwich all the pieces of cake together with some of the buttercream and raspberry jam.
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The 22-square-mile area, sandwiched between Oro Valley and Marana, has the overwhelming support of its residents.