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How to use spaghetti in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Spaghetti means a type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings. Example: “Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.”

Examples of spaghetti by meaning

nounA type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

  • Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.

nounSomething physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.

  • spaghetti grid spaghetti junction spaghetti limbs spaghetti strap spaghetti stripes
  • “But the infrastructure is like spaghetti,” he continued.2021 October 4, Liz Alderman, quoting Mikael Colville-Andersen, “As bikers throng the streets, ‘it’s like Paris is in anarchy’”, in The New...

nounSomething confusing or intricate.

  • “Arrows drawn on maps build up into an astonishing spaghetti of population movement,” Mr.2014 February 10, Stephen Heyman, “A Literary Tour on the Blue Danube”, in The New York Times
  • And while the logic of creating economies of scale was simple, this created a spaghetti of IT technical debt with disparate systems, which hampered the speed of innovation.2023 March 16, Rupak Ghose, “Can payments eat the world?”, in Financial Times

verbTo serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).

  • Visiting members expected to attend, and all will be properly spaghettied.1940 January 19, “Local and General Items”, in The Blairmore Enterprise, volume XXXI, number 3, Blairmore, Alta.: W. J. Bartlett, →OCLC...
  • Pi Phis spaghettied their mothers and fathers last Saturday evening in the rooms.1940 April 2, Helen Carstarphen, “Following the Socialites”, in The George Washington University Hatchet, volume 36, number 25, Washington...

verbTo cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.

  • He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.

verbTo cause (something) to become tangled.

  • "What makes you think this watercolorist and I would develop a romantic relationship?" Sissy's brow was spaghettied.1976 April, Tom Robbins, chapter 20, in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 64
  • A twenty-foot ceiling was spaghettied by ductwork and ladders – not library rollers on rails, just foldable aluminium ladders – supplied for those willing to climb their way to erudition.2004 May, Jonathan Kellerman, chapter 33, in Therapy, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 257

verbTo eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).

  • I have "spaghettied" from Ventimiglia to Brindisi and I doubt if I have ever eaten as excellent spaghetti, certainly none better nor richer, than I have enjoyed in the home of a very charming Maryland hostess.1932, “Foreword”, in Frederick Philip Steiff, compiler, Eat, Drink & Be Merry in Maryland: An Anthology from a Great Tradition, New York...

verbTo become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.

  • The oldest Lark spaghettied down to a noodle and slithered through the letterbox-like hole at the bottom of the cistern.2022 August 30, Thomas Sanders, Samuel Sanders, “Little K, Fire ’Er Up!”, in The Companionship in A Case of OCD, [United Kingdom]: Sanders...

More sentences with spaghetti

  • The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.From the entry amorphous
  • You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.From the entry mutter
  • Let's have a spaghetti feed to carb up before the big meet.From the entry carb up
  • I have some leftover spaghetti in the fridge, so I don't plan to cook tonight.From the entry leftover
  • I got spaghetti sauce all over me during a food fight at lunch today.From the entry food fight
  • “A Fistful of Dollars” and “Once Upon a Time in the West” are famous spaghetti westerns.From the entry spaghetti western
  • I blew it and forgot to start the spaghetti, so I had plenty of sauce and no pasta.From the entry blow
  • I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.From the entry spot
  • I could eat the heck out of some spaghetti.From the entry out of
  • They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.From the entry production
  • They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.From the entry slurp
  • In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.From the entry poutine
  • You can try boiling water for that spaghetti on the hot stove, but it might take a few hours.From the entry hot stove
  • Once it's bubbling good and steady, grab some parm and pecorino, pop it all on your spaghetti.2023, Luca Cesari, The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes. From the entry parm
  • Occasionally I had an olive-oily meal of mainly spaghetti, in an inexpensive restaurant.2017, Alfred H. Siemens, “[Monday, February 28, 1955] Shadows high on the walls and men muttering in their dreams”, in Green Mackinaw: In…. From the entry olive-oily
  • These phases are collectively named nuclear pasta (by analogy to the shape of spaghetti, macaroni and lasagna).2013, José A. Pons, Daniele Viganò, Nanda Rea, “Too much "pasta" for pulsars to spin down”, in Nature Physics, volume 9, number 7…. From the entry nuclear pasta
  • Baskin’s half-furnished home (they had just moved in) and thrown-together spaghetti dinner.2012 July 13, Alex Williams, “Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?”, in New York Times. From the entry cajole
  • What are you supposed to do — order two spaghetti bolognaises?2011, Paul Howard, Riding High: Shadow Cycling the Tour de France. From the entry bolognaise
  • Then spaghetti alla carbonara, pappardelle with ragu of rabbit, and linguini with clams.2010 August 13, Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Salt, 44:36 from the start, in Eat Pray Love. From the entry pappardelle
  • He explores the social and political dimensions of the spaghettis as well as their distinctive cinematicity.2006, Christopher Frayling, Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. From the entry cinematicity
  • That time was Italian: mostly lasagna, spaghetti with meatballs, spumoni ice cream for dessert.1989, Jurgen Gothe, “Three-Star Restaurants”, in First Rate: Jurgen Gothe’s Favourite Vancouver Restaurants, Vancouver, B.C.: Brighouse…. From the entry peely
  • Biscuits, chocolate, raw spaghetti, even Mr Kipling’s cakes, and especially his cherry bakewells.1988, Ann Oakley, “Secret Agents”, in The Men’s Room, London: Flamingo, published 1989, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry cherry bakewell
  • Cut out all bread, cakes, pies, gravies in which there is flour, spaghetti, breaded foods, etc.1971, J. I. Rodale, The Prevention Method for Better Health, page 168. From the entry wheatless
  • I'm trying to cook her some spaghettis and daube, and she keeps on playing in my pot.”1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN. From the entry daube
  • Swedish smörgåsbords, Italian spaghetti with Chianti and garlic Vienna bread, Wiener Schnitzel.1958, John J. Murray, editor, The Heritage of the Middle West, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, page 19. From the entry smörgåsbord
  • Beside her, the India-rubber Man wound spaghetti on to a fork with an expression of deepest melancholy.1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 26. From the entry strongman
  • “Clean clean clean clean.” “Single skillet spaghetti.2025 April 3, Marina Hyde, “It’s With Love, Meghan – not just a TV show but a landmark piece of art. And not in a good way”, in The Guardian. From the entry category five
  • Don't get upsetti spaghetti by not understanding your airline's rules.2023 January 9, “4-foot boa constrictor snake found in carry-on luggage at Florida airport”, in ABC 7 Chicago, archived from the original…. From the entry upsetti spaghetti

Meaning of spaghetti

  1. noun A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
  2. noun A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
  3. noun An Italian person.

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Questions about spaghetti in a sentence

How do you use spaghetti in a sentence?
Spaghetti is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.”
What is a short sentence with spaghetti?
“Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.”
What does spaghetti mean?
Spaghetti means a type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

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