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How to use pea in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Pea means any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others. Example: “Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.”

Examples of pea by meaning

nounAny of several varieties of bean.

  • peas and rice
  • Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.

nounMoney.

  • Man's making bare peas.
  • Man must have bare peas saved up.2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda)

More sentences with pea

  • I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.From the entry deduct
  • We backfilled the cistern with pea gravel to discourage its use as a refuse container.From the entry backfill
  • He ate the peas on his plate one at a time.From the entry one at a time
  • Babies don’t seem to like strained peas, even though the puree is easy for them to eat and digest.From the entry strained
  • Do you eat all your peas and then all your potatoes, or do you switch off between them as you go?From the entry switch off
  • The little boy loved peas but despised spinach.From the entry despised
  • The fruits of the pea, cherry, and almond are monocarpellary.From the entry monocarpellary
  • First, simmer up a portion of peas.From the entry simmer up
  • Soul Rolls: egg roll wraps filled with black-eyed peas, rice, chicken, and collard greens.2024 November 12, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's Carolinas & Georgia, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN. From the entry soul roll
  • Griselda returns, holding a bag full of wasabi peas and anpans.2018, Peter Tieryas, Mecha Samurai Empire, New York, N.Y.: Ace, →ISBN. From the entry red bean
  • This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23…. From the entry shingle
  • There's no greater inspiration than the 6 feet of towering peas in the Hollyhock garden.2013, Moreka Jolar, Heidi Scheifley, Hollyhock Cooks, Hollyhock: Garden to Table. From the entry peamole
  • Pour in the stock and add the carrots, peas, celery, tomatoes, thyme, and rosemary.2012, Ron Silver, Jen Bervin, Bubby's Homemade Pies. From the entry blurpy
  • I've even had success with, well, “peamole,” in which fresh English peas stand in for the broccoli.2012, Ludovic Lefebvre, LudoBites. From the entry peamole
  • Choose varieties resistant to the pea enation virus for summer crops.2011, Linda Gilkeson, Backyard Bounty: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Organic Gardening in the Pacific Northwest, page 244. From the entry enation
  • They just rolled my wicket over and said it was like shelling peas.2010, Leo McKinstry, Geoff Boycott: A Cricketing Hero, page 43. From the entry like shelling peas
  • It was homemade parathas with keema mattar — ground lamb with peas.2009 March 4, Elaine Louie, quoting Heather Carlucci-Rodriguez, “The Temporary Vegetarian: Chana Punjabi”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry paratha
  • The grey or hog pea was the most common field pea in 18th century England.2008, Slack, Susan, “Farmer's Market Report: Dixie Lee Peas”, in Taste of California. From the entry hog-pea
  • After green peas, the product that most helped Birds Eye was fish fingers.2007, Michael Symons, chapter XX, in One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia, page 242. From the entry fish finger
  • That night Annie served him grilled halibut and English peas, plus tomatoes, of course, and a salad.2007, Larry McMurty, When the Light Goes. From the entry serve
  • Her eyes danced at me, warning me to be on watch for my peas and cues.[2006, Russell Madden, Death Is Easy, page 130. From the entry mind one's peas and cues
  • 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
  • Contemporary snow pea cultivars have been bred from crosses between snow and garden peas.2001, Jules Janick, Plant Breeding Reviews, volume 21, page 97. From the entry garden pea
  • Green asparagus has a more “vegetably” taste, a bit like peas.1993, Bodo A. Schieren, Spaghetti, BDD Special Editions, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry vegetably
  • The scent of sweet peas, for instance, does indeed favor that of wisteria.1989, Rayford Clayton Reddell, Robert Galyean, Growing Fragrant Plants, page 13. From the entry favor
  • She stayed to lunch that day, eating omelette and peas in the kitchen, followed by treacle tart.1985, Christine Pullein-Thompson, Wait for Me Phantom horse, London: Award Publications Limited, published 1997, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry omelette
  • It swells to the size of a pea as its eggs develop.1982, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Utah Mosquito Abatement Association, Volume 34, Parts 1981-1996, page 33. From the entry tungid
  • And, of course, a dear little chicken with peas and roast potatoes."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 129. From the entry dear
  • His mount reared and shelled him out of the saddle like a pea out of a pod.1924 October 10, Harold Lamb, “Forward”, in Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, editor, Adventure, volume XLIX, number I, New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry feint
  • Here we get the pea soup, while in London they get the pea-soup fog.1924, Shoe and Leather Reporter, volume 156, number 12, page 22. From the entry pea-soup
  • The moon would be a speck the size of a small pea, thirty inches from the earth.1920, H. G. Wells, “The Earth in Space and Time”, in The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, New York: The…. From the entry respectively
  • Soup, chops, peas, French fries, and the fruit pudding–there wasn't a thing new.”1903, Lillian Pettengill, Toilers of the Home, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 292. From the entry french fries
  • You won't catch me nosing round a chippy at the end of the night begging batter scraps and pea wet.2023, James Clarke, Sanderson's Isle, →ISBN. From the entry pea wet
  • Made from seaweed, peas and konjac root and shaped using specialist moulds, it is being trialled in its native Switzerland first.2021 October 16, Zoe Wood, “Faux fish: vegan alternatives set to take UK market by storm”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry konjac
  • Besides, the joy of shelling fresh peas or cobbing the corn in the right season is a great feeling!2017, Acharya Shunya, Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom. From the entry cob
  • The best thing is, you pay for the chips and you get the pea wet and scratchings for free.2017, David M. Barnett, Calling Major Tom, →ISBN. From the entry scratching

Meaning of pea

  1. noun Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
  2. noun A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
  3. noun The edible seed of Pisum sativum.

Full definition of pea

Questions about pea in a sentence

How do you use pea in a sentence?
Pea is used as a noun. For example: “Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.”
What is a short sentence with pea?
“peas and rice”
What does pea mean?
Pea means any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.

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