SAUCER


Meaning of SAUCER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a cup and saucer

Do you prefer a mug or a cup and saucer?

flying saucer

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

flying

On this particular occasion however, it is a nifty little flying saucer .

If we can not accept flying saucers , we must at least accept floating plates.

■ VERB

fly

His flying saucer , however, is made of glass fibre and runs on compressed air.

He would not raise his eyes to the sky, though he knew there was a flying saucer from Tralfamadore up there.

If you stare at the flying saucer long enough it begins to vibrate.

He said, too, that he had been kidnapped by a flying saucer in 1967.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But as she washed her breakfast cup and saucer and rinsed them meticulously under the cold tap, she was anxious.

Cigarette ashes crusted with coffee in saucers or spilled over the sides of motel ashtrays.

Coffee cup in hand, slopping the liquid in its saucer , I went out on to the terrace.

Cups, saucers, teapot, milk jug with its little muslin cloth, plates and splattered jam.

He placed his cup and its flooded saucer separately on the coffee table and sat back in his chair.

Shamrock cup and saucer by Beleek Bestlite 31170 solid brass lamp base with dark green enamelled shade.

The old man opened his eyes, saucers of terror.

The table was set with matching cups and saucers, bright silverware, old plates and a small pitcher of milk.

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