ASPARAGUS in a Sentence

Learn ASPARAGUS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. We have some asparagus for lunch.
2. The potatoes had to be hurried, not to keep the asparagus waiting, and were not done at the last.
3. She boiled the asparagus for an hour and was grieved to find the heads cooked off and the stalks harder than ever.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASPARAGUS
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asparagus
 n.  tender young shoots of a Eurasian plant, having leaf like stems, scale like leaves, and small flowers, eaten as a vegetable
Classic Sentence:
1  The walk revived her spirits, and flattering herself that she had made good bargains, she trudged home again, after buying a very young lobster, some very old asparagus, and two boxes of acid strawberries.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
2  She boiled the asparagus for an hour and was grieved to find the heads cooked off and the stalks harder than ever.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
3  The potatoes had to be hurried, not to keep the asparagus waiting, and were not done at the last.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
4  I had seen ice on the little horsepond that morning, and as we went through the garden we found the tall asparagus, with its red berries, lying on the ground, a mass of slimy green.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
Example Sentence:
1  We have some asparagus for lunch.