PORRIDGE in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for PORRIDGE, such as:

1. Keep your breath to cool your porridge.
2. We've had enough of bread and porridge.
3. We have cabbage soup, porridge and pie.
4. The old lady enjoyed a mess of porridge every night.
5. May profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums.

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porridge
 n.  soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick
Classic Sentence:
1  We have cabbage soup, porridge and pie.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
2  We'll eat cabbage soup, porridge and pie, we'll eat everything.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
3  But a little further on he saw infantry regiments with their arms piled and the soldiers, only partly dressed, eating their rye porridge and carrying fuel.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER V
4  The soldiers surrounded the Frenchmen, spread a greatcoat on the ground for the sick man, and brought some buckwheat porridge and vodka for both of them.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IX
5  When Morel had drunk some vodka and finished his bowl of porridge he suddenly became unnaturally merry and chattered incessantly to the soldiers, who could not understand him.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IX
6  They gave him some more porridge and Morel with a laugh set to work on his third bowl.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IX
7  Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a mess of cold porridge into a pig trough.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  The minute after, she had sidled to him, and was sticking primroses in his plate of porridge.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  At his desire, she went hunting, which was his symbol of happiness, and she ordered porridge for breakfast, which was his symbol of morality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  We've had enough of bread and porridge.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  I can tell you my mother's put to it to get porridge for 'em all.'
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  May profane the great chair, or the porridge of plums.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  The old lady enjoyed a mess of porridge every night.
2  Keep your breath to cool your porridge.