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• He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.From the entry grit
• They're having a hard time getting used to the food down here. They don't like grits — bless their hearts, they don't even like sweet tea.From the entry bless someone's heart
• In this city of guitars and grits, Andersen is the ambassador of pickin’ and grinnin’.2008 June 25, Joe Edwards, “Guitar-playing 'ambassador' greets visitors at Nashville's Hall of Fame”, in USA Today, retrieved 03 Jan 2009. From the entry pickin' and grinnin'
• And polentalike tamales (grits replace cornmeal) can be grilled, along with the sardines, whenever hunger strikes.1989 May, New York Magazine, volume 22, number 20. From the entry polentalike
• Abrasive papers and felt cloths with various grits were used for the prefinish.1964, NASA Technical Note (issues 1645-1657, page 4). From the entry prefinish
• Then his plate was put before him: hominy grits and a scrap of bacon.1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN. From the entry hominy
• Thus the Pentland Hills form an anticline of Upper Silurian Rocks (shales and grits), over which the Carboniferous Rocks were upfolded.2012, Alex McCallum, Midlothian, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry upfold
• Patron : Well, let me have some big gravy for the biscuits and throw a little red eye on the grits.1986, Foreign Language. From the entry red-eye
• All you have to do is call him "boss" and cut the fool for him, and he'll give you the gravy off his grits.1996, C. Eric Lincoln, The Avenue, Clayton City, page 51. From the entry cut the fool
• I looked for the counterman, seeing him serving a plate of pork chops and grits to a man with a pale blond moustache.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 179. From the entry counterman
• Switch costumes, you ignominious pretender.” “You're more stubborn than a senate mule.” “Grits, grits, grits!” “Tarnation!” “Fancy pants, big-city lawyer.” “I say you are incorrect, sir.”2023 September 21, Grace Parra Janney, “Something Borrowed, Something Green” (9:35 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4…. From the entry tarnation
• Grits have been part of the story of the South as long as the South has been a nameable region — and they were around long before that, too.2019 February 9, Susannah Felts, “Grits more than 'fuel in a box'”, in Knoxville News Sentinel. From the entry nameable
• I think it is very important to point out barbecue ribs, black-eyed peas, grits and collards may, in fact, be a choicy dish to many black Americans.1994, Lewis Grizzard, The Last Bus to Albuquerque. From the entry choicy
• Suavitude galore is served on volumes five and six, with plenty o’ Memphis-carved grits by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Lady Aretha, Sam and Dave, Percy Sledge, and Joe Tex.1986 May, “Spins”, in Spin, volume two, number two, page 31. From the entry suavitude

Meaning of grits

1. noun Coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.

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How do you use grits in a sentence?

Grits is used as a noun. For example: “He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.”

What is a short sentence with grits?

“He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.”

What does grits mean?

Grits means coarsely ground hominy which is boiled and eaten, primarily in the Southern United States.