FRY in a Sentence

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43 example sentences for FRY, such as:

1. My brain is just totally fried.
2. Never fry a fish till it's caught.
3. The smell of frying nauseated her.
4. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
5. He scraped the potatoes before frying.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fry
 v.  cook food in hot oil or fat
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  They seemed never too busy to drop work for a fish fry, a hunt or a horse race, and scarcely a week went by without its barbecue or ball.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  In the long try watches of the night it is a common thing for the seamen to dip their ship-biscuit into the huge oil-pots and let them fry there awhile.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
3  There was no one who could make such excellent coffee or fry a chicken so golden brown as she.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
4  Roars of laughter attended the narration, and were taken up and prolonged by all the smaller fry, who were lying, in any quantity, about on the floor, or perched in every corner.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Mr. and Mrs. Bird went into the kitchen, followed by the two eldest boys, the smaller fry having, by this time, been safely disposed of in bed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  They peddle out such a fish as that by the pound in the market-house there; everybody buys some of him; his meat's as white as snow and makes a good fry.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
7  When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
8  The club received him with transport, and held an harmonic meeting that evening in his honour; while Mrs. Micawber and I had a lamb's fry in private, surrounded by the sleeping family.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
9  While Gerald launched forth on his news, Mammy set the plates before her mistress, golden-topped biscuits, breast of fried chicken and a yellow yam open and steaming, with melted butter dripping from it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  They had fried eggs for breakfast and fried ham for supper to vary the monotony of the yams, peanuts and dried apples, and on one festal occasion they even had roast chicken.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  They fried the fish with the bacon, and were astonished; for no fish had ever seemed so delicious before.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  I catched a good big catfish, too, and Jim cleaned him with his knife, and fried him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
14  Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
Example Sentence:
1  I always fry potatoes in hot fat with a bit of onion.
2  Never fry a fish till it's caught.
3  These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person -- that being better suited to the still smaller fry -- but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.
4  I worked at McDonald's and they taught me how to pinch the fry carton just right while putting the fries into them so that it looked full, but actually wasn't.
5  My brain is just totally fried.
6  The unusually hot sun has fried up the crops.
7  There is a smell of fried chicken in this room.
8  Up here in clam and lobster country, some of our best BBQ joints do fried catfish, and it's always a treat.
9  He scraped the potatoes before frying.
10  The smell of frying nauseated her.
11  Out of the frying pan into the fire.
12  Swirl a little oil around the frying pan.
13  The odor of frying onions permeate the air.
14  I am cooking apple pies with my newly bought frying pan.
15  Millions of hamburgers and French fries are eaten every year.