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How to use chopstick in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Chopstick means an East Asian eating utensil typically used as a pair held in one hand to grip food items, mix liquids, or scoop food out of a bowl. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood, and measuring approximately 23 cm (10 inches) in length. Example: “The gourmet 'treat' glistened repellently. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot chopstick.”

Examples of chopstick by meaning

nounAn East Asian eating utensil typically used as a pair held in one hand to grip food items, mix liquids, or scoop food...

  • The guests, including Australians, ate with chopsticks and drank beer, spirits or Chinese tea from rice bowls.1950 February 18, The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, NSW, page 1, column 3

verbTo pick up (food), or eat, using chopsticks, or as with chopsticks.

  • For a while I chopsticked in silence.1915 November 13, The Southern Churchman, Richmond, Va., page 14, column 1
  • An hour later, when the others left, Ernest was still painstakingly chopsticking.1941 February 1, The Wireless Weekly, Sydney, page 4, column 3

More sentences with chopstick

  • The gourmet 'treat' glistened repellently. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot chopstick.From the entry repellently
  • I watched ‘em eat rice porridge with chopsticks, which is definitely pro-level chopstickery.2024 July 8, Stephen Hockley, Friends in China.. From the entry chopstickery
  • He cleared the air by expressing his nervousness about using chopsticks.2023 December 23, “Blind date: ‘He said he’d like to marry me’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry clear the air
  • Someone invented the chork, which is a mix of and looks like a fork and chopsticks together.2022, Fred Dervin, Sude, Mei Yuan, Interculturality Between East and West (page 20). From the entry chork
  • I grab a new chopstick and when I get back there's a chicken drum on my plate.2016, Melanie Mah, The Sweetest One, Cormorant Books, →ISBN. From the entry drum
  • Puay Sim interrupted, clacking her chopsticks decisively over a slice of fried fish.2016, Jason Erik Lundberg, The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories, →ISBN. From the entry kaypoh
  • I sit at my desk and rub my chopsticks against each other, even though they're silver-monogrammed chopsticks.2012, Margo Candela, Underneath It All, New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., page 227. From the entry chopsticky
  • She is pleasingly dexterous with the chopsticks, and keeps one hand lying palm up on her lap.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 57. From the entry dexterous
  • “Mmm, this will be good,” she murmured as she eagerly dug her chopsticks into the sticky, slippery beans.2012, Rachel Herz, “Let’s Eat”, in That’s Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton &…. From the entry nattō
  • Ashley put down her chopsticks and paused in midchew.2008, Janice Kaplan, Looks to Die For: A Lacy Fields Mystery, page 157. From the entry midchew
  • In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.2006, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London. From the entry neck
  • You've got those long, chopstick legs, he said to Mina.2005, Carolyn Marsden, Moon Runner, Camnridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, page 21. From the entry chopstick legs
  • The girls gathered around my table, ate popcorn with chopsticks, and asked for ice cubes "to coolen" their cocoa.1996, Carolyn Kremers, Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village. From the entry coolen
  • Shu said her family has used serving chopsticks at home since last year, when reports were circulating about a local outbreak of stomach bacteria.2020 May 25, Amy Qin, “Virus Threatens Chinese Traditions of Chopsticks and Family-Style Meals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Yuxi
  • I consider myself pretty expert with chopsticks, but I never before had to use them to retrieve noodles from a hot pot.2009, John Higham, 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around the World, Alyson Publications. From the entry choppers
  • The table was set with plates and chopsticks, little dishes of soy sauce and wasabi paste; bigger platters of sushi, sashimi, tempura, and dumplings; bowls of miso soup.2017, Paul Theroux, “Best Man”, in Mother Land, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Eamon Dolan Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 361. From the entry nipponize
  • If any of you Pinteresters want to DIY, just take a zip lock bag and cut the bottom corner off, making an opening the size of a chopstick bottom.2014, Ayindé Howell, Zoë Eisenberg, The Lusty Vegan: A Cookbook and Relationship Manifesto for Vegans and the People Who Love Them, Vegan…. From the entry Pinterester
  • Like an empress, I feel great content surrounded by the familiar sounds of laughter, bickering, rattling plates, clicking chopsticks, smacking lips, and noisy sipping of the longevity brew.2008, Mingmei Yip, Peach Blossom Pavilion. From the entry content
  • Harbouring fond memories of an okonomiyaki (savoury pancake) once eaten on the Japanese island of Shikoku, I look forward to sticking a chopstick into Ju Ju’s version ($8).1999 November 30, Terry Durack, “Got that sunken feeling?”, in Good Living (The Sydney Morning Herald), Sydney, N.S.W., page 6, column 3. From the entry omelety

Meaning of chopstick

  1. noun An East Asian eating utensil typically used as a pair held in one hand to grip food items, mix liquids, or scoop food out of a bowl. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood, and measuring approximately 23 cm (10 inches) in length.
  2. noun An Asian person.
  3. noun A long straight stick used to keep baited hooks separated in deep-sea fishing tackle.

Full definition of chopstick

Questions about chopstick in a sentence

How do you use chopstick in a sentence?
Chopstick is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The gourmet 'treat' glistened repellently. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot chopstick.”
What is a short sentence with chopstick?
“For a while I chopsticked in silence.”
What does chopstick mean?
Chopstick means an East Asian eating utensil typically used as a pair held in one hand to grip food items, mix liquids, or scoop food out of a bowl. The utensil is a stick, usually made of wood, and measuring approximately 23 cm (10 inches) in length.

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