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How to use eggplant in a sentence

31 example sentences · noun

Eggplant means the plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine. Example: “The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.”

Examples of eggplant by meaning

nounThe plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

  • Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN

More sentences with eggplant

  • The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.From the entry meets
  • The excellent mature eggplants grown in the garden plot are quickly being picked up by family and friends.From the entry mature
  • This braised eggplant has all those savory parm-y flavors, but in an easy any-night form.2023, Sohla El-Waylly, Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook, page 170. From the entry parm
  • Stuffed dolma, eggplant kebap, onion kebap, lahmacun, yuvalama, cig kofte, baklava, kunefe and much more.2023 March 31, “Recipes for Ramadan: Beyza Koca’s ali nazik (Turkish lamb with eggplant)”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry kunefe
  • “Eggplant is highly nutritious, but it can be bitter due to its phenolic compounds.”2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 338. From the entry phenolic
  • Tender vine vegetables such as small heirloom tomatoes, zucchini (courgette) and eggplant (aubergine) are naturally skewerable.2013, Ross Dobson, Fired Up: Vegetarian. From the entry skewerable
  • Another hypothesis holds that the people of India were the first to eat eggplant.2013, Christopher Martin Cumo, Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants: From Acacia to Zinnia [3 volumes]: From Acacia to Zinnia, ABC-CLIO…. From the entry wild eggplant
  • Indians may have gathered wild eggplant around the time of Christ.2013, Christopher Martin Cumo, Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants: From Acacia to Zinnia [3 volumes]: From Acacia to Zinnia, ABC-CLIO…. From the entry wild eggplant
  • Everyone who's had my mother's eggplant parm has said, “This is awesome.”2012, Mike Isabella, Mike Isabella's Crazy Good Italian. From the entry parm
  • Slice the lamb backstraps diagonally and lay the meat over the eggplants and tomatoes.2010, Guy Mirabella, Eat - Ate, page 110. From the entry backstrap
  • Specialties include veal parmigiana, chicken portobello, linguini pescatore, veal marsala, eggplant parmigiana and many others.2007 June, “Dining & Entertainment”, in Orange County Magazine, page 270. From the entry parmigiana
  • Fruits of the pea eggplant are mostly collected from the wild.2004, G. J. H. Grubben, Vegetables, PROTA, →ISBN, page 503. From the entry pea eggplant
  • Occasionally these eggplants are grilled before being added, altering their taste and making them wonderfully nutty.2002, David Thompson, Thai Food, Random House Digital, Inc., →ISBN, page 195. From the entry pea eggplant
  • Generally only cucumbers, eggplants, melons and a few other kinds are made into misozuke or narazuke.1958, Mock Joya, Things Japanese. From the entry narazuke
  • They included chicken, eggplant, carrots, broccoli and potatoes.2022 April 7, Joe McDonald, “Shanghai wrestles with food shortages under virus shutdown”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Apr…. From the entry Minhang
  • She had ordered eggplant pirogue — a hollowed out eggplant, breaded, fried, and stuffed with shrimp, crawfish, and crab.2019, Marlys Beider, Continuum, page 257. From the entry pirogue
  • Do be warned that if you overbroil the eggplant slices, they will fall apart while baking in the casserole.2011, James Villas, From the Ground Up, page 109. From the entry overbroil
  • For the table a big platter of artichoke alla giudia, prosciutto with melon, and eggplant with ricotta affumicata.2010 August 13, Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Salt, 44:36 from the start, in Eat Pray Love. From the entry pappardelle
  • Arrange the whole eggplants and tomatoes on a large platter.2010, Guy Mirabella, Eat - Ate, page 110. From the entry backstrap
  • Field notes: Cousin to xianbing (餡餅), which are wider (palm-sized), flatter and often stuffed with meat, chives or eggplant.2010 November, “Circles”, in The Beijinger, section “mending roubing (门钉肉饼 doornail pie)”, page 20. From the entry xianbing
  • From large and round to egg-shaped, to small and thin and even fingerlike, eggplants have been catching on in Toronto kitchens.2009 January 14, Habeeb Salloum, “The rise of the eggplant”, in Toronto Star. From the entry fingerlike
  • The eggplant pirogue, a regional specialty, is especially good here.1999, Fodor's 2000 USA, page 484. From the entry pirogue
  • Cheese-filled battered eggplant rolls with a tomato-saucy flair.1980, “[Vegetable Dishes and Casseroles] Eggplant Italiano”, in Yankee Church Supper Cookbook, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, published 1991…. From the entry tomato-saucy
  • On a subsequent visit the eggplant was overcooked and overcheesed.1971, À la Vôtre, volumes 1-3, page 276. From the entry overcheesed
  • The vegetables used are eggplant, potatoes, saba (Plantain), cabbage, pechay, stringbeans and sometimes sweet potatoes instead of potatoes.1959, Mobilways, volumes 5-6, Standard-Vacuum Oil Company, Philippines Division, page 5. From the entry maja blanca
  • Next, we tried the piadinas, a northern Italian flatbread topped with roasted celeriac, grilled squash, eggplant, slivers of cabbage and a sprinkling of Parmesan.2013 January 24, Samantha Everts, “Two Six {Ate} making its own rules”, in Metro Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., →ISSN, page 26. From the entry piadina
  • Lamprais is a Dutch-influenced Sri Lankan original, a banana-leaf package of rice, meat curry, eggplant, frikkadel (a kind of meatball) and shrimp paste.2013 December 15, Nell McShane Wulfhart, “36 Hours in Colombo, Sri Lanka”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry frikkadel
  • Two other birds took up residence at our swimming pool, which I had painted an eggplant colour, giving the water an oceany hue.2007, Rosalie Wise Sharp, Rifke: An Improbable Life, page 144. From the entry oceany
  • Cabbage, onions, fenocchio, eggplant, green beans.1996, English Journal, volume 85, numbers 1-4, National Council of Teachers of English, page 60. From the entry fenocchio
  • Finally, the nearby Nice Restaurant offers dim sum delicacies ($1.95–$3.95)—pan-fried turnip cakes, shrimp-stuffed eggplant, silver-needle noodles—that have been pleasing New Yorkers since the Year of the Ox.2002 February 11, Emily Gitter, Ben Kaplan, “Brother, Can You Spare a Cosmo?”, in New York, volume 35, New York, N.Y.: New York Media…. From the entry silver-needle noodle

Meaning of eggplant

  1. noun The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
  2. noun A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
  3. noun A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.

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Questions about eggplant in a sentence

How do you use eggplant in a sentence?
Eggplant is used as a noun. For example: “The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.”
What is a short sentence with eggplant?
“Cabbage, onions, fenocchio, eggplant, green beans.”
What does eggplant mean?
Eggplant means the plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

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