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How to use salad in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Salad means a food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling. Example: “We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.”

Examples of salad by meaning

nounA food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically...

  • We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.
  • At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213

nounOne or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce).

  • sandwiches comprising a meat, a cheese, a salad, and a condiment
  • I prefer a bit of salad on my burger.
  • Buy a bag of salad at the supermarket.

nounAny mixture of different things.

  • Rebuffed by the Arabs and then the Iranians for trying to be part of them and their societies, Pakistan is just a hotchpotch salad of people supposedly bound together by the myth of Muslim 'Ummah'.2021 October 16, Gurvinder Singh, “Why Pakistan will fail”, in Guruwonder

More sentences with salad

  • A side salad is a common accompaniment to a main dish.From the entry accompaniment
  • She often spoke in idioms, pining for salad days and complaining about pots calling the kettle black.From the entry idiom
  • I mixed a bunch of random vegetables into a salad, and it actually turned out pretty good.From the entry random
  • Dinner consisted of crackers, some broccoli and a salad with lite ranch dressing.From the entry lite
  • I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad.From the entry sprout
  • That potato salad smells a bit iffy. Don't chance it — it's not worth salmonellosis.From the entry iffy
  • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.From the entry drizzle
  • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.From the entry drizzle
  • The author’s novels from her salad years lacked the sophistication and depth of her later works.From the entry salad year
  • Cloverleaves have a pealike flavor and make a nice accent among salad greens.From the entry cloverleaf
  • Of all the Caesar salads I've tasted, this is the finest.From the entry Caesar salad
  • Of all the Waldorf salads I've tasted, this is the finest.From the entry Waldorf salad
  • The essential ingredients of salad lyonnaise are bacon, croutons and poached egg.From the entry lyonnaise
  • Rick decided to try the alligator burger, but Beth unadventurously ordered a salad.From the entry unadventurously
  • I'm really puzzled at how this word salad managed to find its way into print.From the entry find one's way
  • He was chopping a tomato to put in the salad.From the entry tomato
  • We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza, and an iceberg wedge as our side salad.From the entry wedge
  • Massage the kale to soften it before making the salad.From the entry massage
  • The stallholder puts salad into an open pita bread, followed by the four falafels, and then liberally covers them with hummus.From the entry falafel
  • Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!From the entry brunch
  • She opted for the salad rather than the steak.From the entry opt
  • I can't eat this salad, it's out of date.From the entry out of date
  • Would you like some Caesar salad for lunch?From the entry Caesar salad
  • Break up the cheese and put it in the salad.From the entry break up
  • After putting oil on the side of the salad, the chef should drip a little vinegar in the oil.From the entry drip
  • He ordered a salad at the canteen.From the entry canteen
  • Don't overdress the salad: it shouldn't be swimming in oil.From the entry overdress
  • The prepping of this salad will seem easy in comparison with the cooking and baking we've been doing.From the entry prepping
  • Salad bars can be found in many restaurants and schools.From the entry salad bar
  • Looseleaf lettuce is popularly used in salads.From the entry looseleaf
  • She ate a chicken rollup and a salad.From the entry rollup
  • New York City can be considered a "salad bowl".From the entry salad bowl
  • I'll prepare us up a big salad for dinner.From the entry prepare up
  • Would you like some Waldorf salad?From the entry Waldorf salad

Meaning of salad

  1. noun A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling.
  2. noun One or more raw vegetables of the kind used in salads; typically greens (especially lettuce).
  3. noun Any mixture of different things.

Full definition of salad

Questions about salad in a sentence

How do you use salad in a sentence?
Salad is used as a noun. For example: “We'd like a couple of cheese salads and two Pepsis, please.”
What is a short sentence with salad?
“Would you like some Waldorf salad?”
What does salad mean?
Salad means a food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often involving two or more such ingredients mixed together, with larger items cut or torn into small pieces, and usually with a dressing or binding; usually served cold or at room temperature, as a dish or savoury sandwich filling.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: salad (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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