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How to use hamburger in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Hamburger means a hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both. Example: “The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.”

Examples of hamburger by meaning

nounAn animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.

  • The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.
  • I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.

verbTo badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).

  • The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.1944, C. G. Morris, Hugh B. Cave, “The Fightin’est Ship”: The Story of the Cruiser “Helena”, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 62
  • And his tires triggered no Claymore mines or Bouncing Betties that might have hamburgered his vehicle with him in it.1981, John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 283
  • My tears are like gagged pieces of ice cutting up my eyeballs and hamburgering my face.1994, Beatrice Sparks (falsely indicated as editor), It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, a True Story from Her Diary, Avon...

More sentences with hamburger

  • Only in New York can you find a good, kosher hamburger!From the entry kosher
  • They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.From the entry purchase
  • To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.From the entry equivalent
  • The teenagers went down to the drive-in to order some hamburgers and fries.From the entry drive-in
  • The cook fried the hamburger patty, then put it in a bun.From the entry patty
  • After a day in the sun, he was more grilled than his hamburger.From the entry grilled
  • The manager had to put out the fire after a raw hamburger was served to a customer.From the entry put out a fire
  • There were three hamburgers and every one (of them) was delicious.From the entry every one
  • I could murder a hamburger right now.From the entry murder
  • He made the stupid decision of standing in a half-hour queue for a hamburger, instead of calling ahead.From the entry stupid
  • The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.From the entry suggest
  • We used hamburgers and soda in contradistinction to healthy food.From the entry contradistinction
  • A pickle goes well with a hamburger.From the entry pickle
  • She's forever eating unnourishing foods like hamburgers and chips.From the entry unnourishing
  • I'm torn between pizza and hamburgers.From the entry torn
  • I just had an unreal hamburger.From the entry unreal
  • In those days, a hamburger was fifteen cents, and if someone was charging a quarter for a bowl of soup, it was regarded as a rip-off.From the entry rip-off
  • When we see someone eat a hamburger in a commercial, we store that experience as having happened in reality when, in reality, it was a case of virtual consumption.From the entry virtual consumption
  • Next time you go out for a hamburger, ask your sixth grader to find the toponyms.2012, Suzanne Barchers, Sixth Grade Parent Guide for Your Child's Success, →ISBN. From the entry toponym
  • They are words that come from the names of places, like hamburger comes from Hamburg, Germany.2012, Suzanne Barchers, Sixth Grade Parent Guide for Your Child's Success, →ISBN. From the entry toponym
  • Rude Boy was a killa and, to him, taking life was as simple as eating a hamburger.2011, Maurice Rice, Seeds of a New Breed, page 159. From the entry killa
  • This recipe will make 6–8 “quarter pounders” from only one pound of hamburger.2011, Michael Turney, Son of a Sea Cook Cookbook, page 140. From the entry quarter-pounder
  • This south-of-the-border burger mixes the guacamole into the hamburger meat for extra-rich butteriness.2010, Jane Murphy, The Great Big Burger Book, page 26. From the entry butteriness
  • Wet your hands and make your big hamburgery mess into hamburger patties.2008 July 3, Leanne Ely, “If relationships were recipes”, in Springville Herald, page 14. From the entry hamburgery
  • Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea.2006, Kate Lyons, The Corner of Your Eye. From the entry beetrooty
  • In many cases the diminished seventh chord is the in-between, the hamburger helper of ascending harmonic movement.2003, Alan de Mause, Mel Bay's Complete Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Book, page 120. From the entry hamburger helper
  • Surely, not all hamburger buns are missliced, so why don't they slice them higher?2000, David Feldman, Life's Imponderables, page 33. From the entry misslice
  • It centred on the various and devious methods used in serving us hamburger.1988, Peter Hunter, “Back to School: Dealing with Dissent”, in Which Side Are You On, Boys: Canadian Life on the Left, Toronto, Ont.…. From the entry centre
  • And if quality counts, Murchison may be to meatpies what the late Nat Bailey was to hamburgers.1982 June 14, Denny Boyd, “On the path of the perfect meatpie”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume 95, number 188, Vancouver, B.C., page A3…. From the entry meatpie
  • It’s fodder, something to kill time chewing between bites of hamburger and swallows of milk shake.1977, Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s, Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry french-fried potatoes
  • And we’ve got our Guardian agents at work spotting the best hamburgers and cherry sodas in town.1971 June 7, “Meanwhile, can you survive in San Francisco?”, in Bruce B. Brugmann, editor, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 5…. From the entry bulochka
  • Some of us then enjoyed hamburgers and calorie-ful dessert before parting.1967 December 15, “Note This”, in All-Church Press (edition of Oklahoma City Star), volume 38, number 37, Oklahoma City, Okla., page 1. From the entry calorie-ful
  • Make ranchburgers by dividing the meat for each hamburger into two patties.1966 April 7, “Ground Beef Extra Spicy”, in The Baltimore Sun. From the entry ranchburger
  • UNE is also very smartly made, polished, captivating, and cohesive, with no perceptible cinematic hamburger helper; there are no wasted words.2025 May 26, The New America, The New America 2012-Current, page 43. From the entry hamburger helper
  • On Tuesday, those who didn’t eat hamburgers vowed to start.2012 July 24, Kathy Lally, “Russian doctor declares war on McDonald’s ‘gamburgers’”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry kompot

Meaning of hamburger

  1. noun A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
  2. noun The patty used in such a sandwich.
  3. noun Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.

Full definition of hamburger

Questions about hamburger in a sentence

How do you use hamburger in a sentence?
Hamburger is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.”
What is a short sentence with hamburger?
“I just had an unreal hamburger.”
What does hamburger mean?
Hamburger means a hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.

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