LETTUCE in a Sentence

Learn LETTUCE 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.

10 example sentences for LETTUCE, such as:

1. We'll have lettuce and make a salad.
2. Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce.
3. In hot weather lettuces can suddenly run to seed.
4. I should be eating fresh lettuce from the garden next week.
5. Shred the lettuce and arrange it around the edge of the dish.

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 Meanings and Examples of LETTUCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lettuce
 n.  a plant with large, green leaves, eaten uncooked in salads
Classic Sentence:
1  We'll have lettuce and make a salad.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
2  The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
3  In the display window, black, overripe bananas and lettuce on which a cat was sleeping.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  He often spent half a day in gazing at a market garden, the beds of lettuce, the chickens on the dung-heap, the horse turning the water-wheel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
5  Some of the young ladies washed the lettuces for him, and sliced them under his directions.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
Example Sentence:
1  Shred the lettuce and arrange it around the edge of the dish.
2  Milk, cereal, juice - oh, and put lettuce on the list too.
3  Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce.
4  I should be eating fresh lettuce from the garden next week.
5  In hot weather lettuces can suddenly run to seed.