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• After weeks of bread and porridge, he longed for something other than stodge.From the entry stodge
• The porridge is ready to serve.From the entry ready
• I watched ‘em eat rice porridge with chopsticks, which is definitely pro-level chopstickery.2024 July 8, Stephen Hockley, Friends in China.. From the entry chopstickery
• Switch up the carrot for grated apple with a small handful of raisins for apple pie porridge.2020 July 23, Rebecca Wilson, What Mummy Makes: Cook Just Once for You and Your Baby, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry builder's mug
• Still tall as the doorway, still fat from crocodile meat and ugali porridge.2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 256. From the entry ugali
• Me: Is a buckwheat porridge good for me to eat now?2017 July 26, Alexander Khomoutov, “The message from Gosha: Love yourself first or die”, in Heal Yourself! Discover Quantum Healing…. From the entry borodinskii bread
• My wife insists on talking while eating porridge in the morning.2013 November 24, “Photo to put end to eating disgust”, in The Examiner, Launceston, Tas., page C.4. From the entry Shrekky
• She dollops porridge into a bowl and trickles condensed milk over the top.2012, Ruth Saberton, Amber Scott is Starting Over, London: Orion, →ISBN. From the entry dollop
• Samp was corn broken into coarse grains and boiled as porridge.2004, Louise Cabral, A Pageant of Shadows, page 327. From the entry samp
• Fortify yourself with a full Scottish breakfast of smoked kippers, haggis, and creamy porridge.2004, Travel & Leisure. From the entry full Scottish breakfast
• It consisted of a thick white porridge leavened with yeast and eaten together with a boiled potato.1997, Josef Hiršal, Michael Henry Heim, A Bohemian Youth, page 67. From the entry rebutter
• Traditionally, it was cooked as a porridge, but nowadays it is increasingly eaten as müsli.1994, Yvonne Granfeldt, Food Factors Affecting Metabolic Responses to Cereal Products, Department of Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry…. From the entry müsli
• Instead of milk on my porridge, a thin, watery liquid unrecognisable as cow-juice.1991 March 4, Tom Brown, “‘Healthy’ Diet Is Pure Tripe!”, in Daily Record, Glasgow, page 10. From the entry cow-juice
• Before leaving his house to go to the kraal the inkosi had to eat a little porridge.1956, Margaret Read, The Ngoni of Nyasaland, page 66. From the entry inkosi
• The mantous had been a welcome change from the muei (Chinese porridge) on which they had been subsisting for so long.2017, Julia Lin, “Leaving Manchuria”, in Shadows of the Crimson Sun: One Man’s Life in Manchuria, Taiwan, and North America, Toronto…. From the entry mantou
• Dried macas are cooked in water or milk and used to prepare a kind of sweet and aromatic porridge, mazamorra.2014, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal and Non Medicinal Plants, volume 9, page 802. From the entry maca
• In those days, the central and local government as well as the monasteries would make laba porridge on every Laba Festival.2011, Wei Liming, Chinese Festivals, page 9. From the entry Laba porridge
• Don’t overlook the cans of persimmon punch and pine-nut porridge.1986 October 30, Ellen Melinkoff, “EXOTIC: Ethnic Shops for Adventurous Cooks”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry pine-nut porridge
• Three typical dishes are mititei, chopped sausage; sarmale, spiced meat and rice in vine leaves or sauerkraut; and mamaliguta, maizeflour porridge.1983, “Romanian Food”, in Travel Guide to Europe: What to See: A Catalog of Selected Travel Information, Falls Church, Va.: American…. From the entry maizeflour
• There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer.1938, Daphne de Maurier, Rebecca. From the entry porringer
• Their exquisitely moulded faces were the colour of wheatmeal porridge slightly browned, with numerous freckles as the bran.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 209. From the entry wheatmeal
• We had oatmeal porridge for breakfast, which was fairly filling, but I always starved at lunch and dinner.1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiv. From the entry filling
• Locals would speak sorrowfully about the state of affairs, often while nursing their sole plate of sadza (maize porridge) for the day.2007 February 16, “Zimbabwe’s Slide (1 Letter)”, in New York Times. From the entry sadza
• George Matheson Murray, the man she was to meet in South Vancouver, was an oatmeal porridge Scot as Canadian as maple syrup.2003, Stan Sauerwein, Ma Murray: The Story of Canada's Crusty Queen of Publishing, Altitude Publishing, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry Canadian as maple syrup
• The salad was followed by pine-nut porridge, steamed sea bream, beef and vegetable “Shin-Sul-Ro” casserole, beef ribs and fresh vegetables, steamed rice and beef soup.1999 April 21, Jane Kerr, “My Huzzzband and I: Prince Philip nods off during a speech..by the Queen”, in The Mirror, London, →OCLC, page…. From the entry pine-nut porridge
• He liked porridge in the morning.1967, James Ngugi [i.e., Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o], chapter 1, in A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series; 36), London: Heinemann, →OCLC…. From the entry sufuria
• My porridge was followed by toast, thick, doorsteppy chunks of it, and I tried to be polite with the amount of butter I slathered on them.2021, Vivienne Bennett, The Meanderings of a Serial Goat Keeper. From the entry doorsteppy
• In a vacant gesture the foreman began making rounds during breakfast, glad-handing the men as they sulked over their porridge and coffee, reminding them of their fortitude and stoutheartedness.2012, Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road, →ISBN. From the entry stoutheartedness
• Katya prepared a large batch of kutia, the ancient porridge of wheat and honey, to be served at the meal in the cultural center following the burial.2010, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, chapter 13, in The Silence of Trees: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Wolfsword Press, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry kutia
• She scooped a spoonful of sieved porridge from the nursery bowl, and offered it to baby Adrian, who was sitting in his high chair next to her.2006, Imogen Parker, “July 1961”, in The Time of Our Lives, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry porridgy
• Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 328. From the entry putu
• A roast turkey with satsivi came next, and with it a high-piled dish of ghome, which is maizeflour porridge cooked for hours over a slow fire.1972, Helen Papashvily, George Papashvily, the Editors of Time-Life Books, “A Mountain Picnic on a Grand Scale”, in The Cooking of Russia…. From the entry maizeflour
• In Somerset, for example, the local farmers would often boil down the beet juice to create a honey tender, a viscous syrup that sweetened the harvest porridge.1922, Arthur J. P. Williams, Rural Industries of the West Country, page 42. From the entry syrup
• Perhaps that explained the breakfast of oatmeal porridge—piled plates of thick stirabout thickly sprinkled with pale, very sweet powdery brown sugar—and the eggs to follow with rolls and butter.1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 92. From the entry stirabout
• An Die An Niang This no-frills Shandong eatery at Chaoyang Park West Gate makes great down-home zhou (rice porridge), stuffed pies (xianbing) and some of the biggest baozi in town.2010 February, “Shandong”, in The Beijinger, page 49, column 1. From the entry xianbing
• There are traditional dishes such as Mopani worms, mogodu or unbleached tripe; and umngqusho, which is braised beef shin with maize porridge, billed as former President Nelson Mandela's favourite dish.2009 August 13, Celean Jacobson, “Cultural heart of Jo'burg”, in Toronto Star. From the entry unbleached
• Ground into meal, it appeared in a variety of forms, as porridge, hasty pudding, pone, and later as Indian pudding, which was cooked with molasses and was a favorite dish.1948, Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Peacham: The Story of a Vermont Hill Town, pages 68–69. From the entry suppawn

Meaning of porridge

1. noun A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
2. noun Oat porridge; oatmeal.
3. noun Rice porridge; congee.

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How do you use porridge in a sentence?

Porridge is used as a noun. For example: “Eat your porridge while it's hot!”

What is a short sentence with porridge?

“Eat your porridge while it's hot!”

What does porridge mean?

Porridge means a dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.