CABBAGE in a Sentence

Learn CABBAGE 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.

32 example sentences for CABBAGE, such as:

1. Oh, I'm only a squashed cabbage leaf.
2. A jar of pickle will contain pickled cabbage.
3. If you overcook the cabbage it'll turn to mush.
4. Plant out the spring cabbage whenever opportunities arise.
5. The cabbage began to deposit a cold white grease on his plate.

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 Meanings and Examples of CABBAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cabbage
 n.  any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
 n.  any of various types of cabbage
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  You should see that fellow lapping up his bacon and cabbage of a cold winter's day.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  One evening as he was about to put a morsel of corned beef and cabbage into his mouth his hand stopped.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
4  The cabbage began to deposit a cold white grease on his plate.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
5  Then he has a bloody big bowl of cabbage before him on the table and a bloody big spoon like a shovel.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
6  I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
7  Oh, I'm only a squashed cabbage leaf.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
8  Vell, I t'ink about vot ve alwis eat, maybe corn beef and cabbage and sausage, und so weiter.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  Here was no glaring new house with a proud phonograph, but a low whitewashed kitchen smelling of cream and cabbage.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Carol had not dared to look into the farther room while she labored over the supper of beer, rye bread, moist cornbeef and cabbage, set on the kitchen table.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  But the cabbage and Mrs. Calibree's monotonous "I don't know what we're coming to with all this difficulty getting hired girls" were gumming her eyes with drowsiness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  When he had gotten a safe distance away he sat down and devoured half the cabbage raw, stowing the balance away in his pockets till the next day.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
13  Had a cabbage chanced to be so encountered, she had pressed it also into the service.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
14  Not a drop of liquor passes his lips, but only cabbage soup and gruel.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
15  Instead of that there's such a smell of cabbage in all the corridors that you've got to hold your nose.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
Example Sentence:
1  If you overcook the cabbage it'll turn to mush.
2  A jar of pickle will contain pickled cabbage.
3  Plant out the spring cabbage whenever opportunities arise.
4  I smelt sickly eggs by the barrel, and rotten cabbages, and such things; and if I know the signs of a dead cat being around, and I bet I do, there was sixty-four of them went in.