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How to use ketchup in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Ketchup means such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning. Example: “Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?”

Examples of ketchup by meaning

nounSuch a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older...

  • To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.2003, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec 2003, Ulysses Travel Guides, page 46

verbTo cover with ketchup.

  • "Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of.1973, Horizon, page 15
  • Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.2009, David Silverman, Twinkle, page 4

More sentences with ketchup

  • Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?From the entry do
  • Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.From the entry matter
  • Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?From the entry yo
  • The bottle of ketchup hit the floor and went kablooie all over everything.From the entry kablooie
  • Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.From the entry oops
  • Do you want ketchup, mustard, or mayonnaise on your chips?From the entry chip
  • I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.From the entry like
  • The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.From the entry drum
  • My burger arrived with a plastic sachet of tomato ketchup.From the entry sachet
  • Can you ship me the ketchup?From the entry ship
  • Dipping a French fry in her tomato ketchup, she admits that her name recognition could be higher.2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It’s not government that creates jobs”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry mayfly
  • From Australian slang 'dead horse' meaning ketchup + Latin 'mortuus equus' (dead horse) + phobia.2023 April 2, @weird_phobias, “Mortuusequusphobia – the fear of ketchup”, in Twitter. From the entry mortuusequusphobia
  • No, just put the fries in the bag already, and a side of ketchup.2022 December 3, @CryptoEarlOG, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2024. From the entry put the fries in the bag
  • He literally cannot be in the same room as an open bottle of ketchup.2020 July 19, “My boyfriend has mortuusequusphobia (fear of ketchup)”, in Reddit. From the entry mortuusequusphobia
  • I was advised that I could save money on Brasso by smearing my door-knobs with ketchup.2018 September 13, Peter Barron, “Grandad at Large: Caught red-handed”, in The Northern Echo, Darlington, County Durham, →OCLC, page 49…. From the entry door-knob
  • Nothing is as English as Heinz ketchup in the sauce game, except perhaps HP.2016, Jon Bounds, Danny Smith, Pier Review: A Road Trip in Search of the Great British Seaside. From the entry red
  • Derreck dipped a French fried potato in some ketchup and stuffed it in his mouth.2016, Cassius Mullen, Betty Byron, Living for This Moment, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry french fried potato
  • Yehuda forked a French-fried potato into his mouth, as the steward arrived with the ketchup.2012, Robert Lockwood, “Lacking Intelligence”, in A Dragon Defanged, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry french-fried potato
  • I had sausage eggs and a hash-brown with ketchup while the man and woman had Caesar salads.2007, Latonya S. Hicks, Carrying Her Past, Lulu Publishing, page 33. From the entry hash-brown
  • Two medium eggs, dry pan "fried", still runny, added pepper and a drizzle of tomato sauce (ketchup).2006 January 12, Ozgirl, “Elegant food”, in alt.support.diabetes (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023. From the entry tomato saucey
  • I kept telling my husband we should import banana ketchup from the Philippines.2005, Theresa M. Welford, The Paradelle: An Anthology, page 36. From the entry banana ketchup
  • A fast-food favorite is zapiekanki — half a baguette topped with melted cheese and ketchup.2002 August 4, “If you go…”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 262, number 35, →OCLC, page M9, column 6. From the entry zapiekanki
  • I see traces of ketchup in quite a few Chinese-ish recipes.2001 March 14, Jack B, “Soy Sauce Question”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), retrieved 12 Sep 2022. From the entry Chinese-ish
  • Typically, they snacked on zapiekanki—long, thin breadcrusts covered with melted cheese, pickles and ketchup.1999 March 14, Tom Hundley, “American invasion of Poland being greeted with open arms: Movies, Big Macs, the NBA are blitzing through the…. From the entry zapiekanki
  • Patronizing the cafe, she quickly became familiar with the non-functioning salt shakers and the catsupless ketchup bottles.1928 May, “The Adventures of Goldilocks”, in The Pioneer […], 6th annual publication, Sacramento, Calif.: Associated Students of…. From the entry catsupless
  • We've all spilled ketchup down ourselves at some point.2024 July 20, “Saucy stuff as Heinz forays into fashion”, in Grocer, page 57. From the entry tomato girl summer
  • Every surface is being constantly wiped down with sanitizer, no shared bottles of syrup, ketchup, and condiments, and sparse, unadorned tables.2020 March 14, Matthew Ciszek, “At IHOP for breakfast […]”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2020. From the entry Coronatide
  • A decade later, both Heinz and Hunt's introduced a new inverted, squeezable ketchup bottle that rested on its flip-bottom cap.2013, Earl B. Russell, Cold Turkey at Nine: The Memoir of a Problem Child. From the entry squeezable
  • She splurted ketchup on her hash browns.2011, Andrea McKay, Blue Night, Blue Day, page 51. From the entry splurt
  • Liberty claimed that Heinz ketchup contained cow’s blood, while Meadow countered that Guinness beer contained lard and fish scales.2009, April Henry, Torched, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry veganness
  • Cold Comfort seizes a plastic squirty bottle of tomato ketchup.2005, Pete McCarthy, The Road to McCarthy. From the entry squirty
  • He picked up a French fried potato, stabbed it into the ketchup and put it in his mouth.1992, Benjamin Cheever, The Plagiarist, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry french fried potato
  • Whether it be a mistucked shirt, an uneven tie, or a ketchup stain on his houndstooth jacket, Ponzer always had something off.2014, Malcolm Dorson, Octopus Summer, page 44. From the entry mistucked
  • Let us take ketchup for instance.1965, Science Review, volumes 6-8, page 43. From the entry banana ketchup
  • Some people can’t get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge, other people can’t stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.2021, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks and Messy Kitchens, London: Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN. From the entry old man yelling at cloud
  • If you're thinking about topping your burger with ketchup, mustard, relish and perhaps a couple of pickle slices, you might want to "give your head a shake."2009 August 20, Joanne Chianello, “New program asks you to pass on the sodium”, in The Windsor Star. From the entry give one's head a shake
  • The Soyles have been trying to come up with their own versions, with different spices and flavors, but here’s the thing: people just like their ketchup . . . ketchuppy.2008, Lauren Mechling, Dream Girl, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 169. From the entry ketchuppy

Meaning of ketchup

  1. noun Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
  2. verb To cover with ketchup.

Full definition of ketchup

Questions about ketchup in a sentence

How do you use ketchup in a sentence?
Ketchup is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?”
What is a short sentence with ketchup?
“Can you ship me the ketchup?”
What does ketchup mean?
Ketchup means such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ketchup (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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