How to use watercress in a sentence

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• You can try them in any recipe that calls for watercress or cooked spinach.1984 March 1, Fran Marengo et al., “Creasy Greens: Try Growing And Cooking This Edible Wild Plant”, in Mother Earth News. From the entry creasy
• Food articles often have botanical illustrations of lesser-eaten greenery like endive and watercress, drawn by artist John Burgoyne.2017, Shawn Chandler Bingham, “Bohemian Groves, Grooves, Gardens, and Guns”, in Shawn Chandler Bingham, Lindsey A. Freeman, editors, The…. From the entry bohemian
• We used to go and get watercress and titiwi - walking through the bushes, going to the garden.2012, Celia Sorhaindo, Polly Pattullo, Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return, →ISBN. From the entry titiwi
• New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144. From the entry honeycomb
• I like to have watercress to soften into the roast gravy, and crisp baby gem or Romaine leaves to catch and contrast with the gravy.2012, Alex Mackay, Alex Mackay’s Cookbook for Everybody, Everyday, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 334. From the entry romaine
• While the stars sip their strawsful of sugarless broth fumes and vapor of fetal watercress leaf helicoptered to their trailers daily, everyone else gets fat.2006, Jonathan Reynolds, Wrestling with Gravy: A Life, with Food, Random House Trade Paperbacks, published 2008, page 231. From the entry strawful
• What I like is the quiet life, and Roberta Wickham wouldn't recognize the quiet life if you brought it to her on a plate with watercress round it.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII. From the entry espieglerie
• Pumps send the dirty fish water up into beds of watercress, which filter pollutants and trickle the cleaner water back down to the fish – a symbiotic system called aquaponics.2009 July 5, Elizabeth Royte, “Street farmer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2017. From the entry aquaponics
• Everything's even better than it sounds: endive, watercress, and aged Stilton salad, frog legs amandine with celeriac puree, buffalo foie burger with truffle fries on a brioche bun, campfire trout.2005, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 50, number 5, page 159. From the entry foie

Meaning of watercress

1. noun A perennial European herb, Nasturtium officinale, that grows in freshwater streams; used in salads and as a garnish.
2. noun A similar plant, Nasturtium microphyllum.

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How do you use watercress in a sentence?

Watercress is used as a noun. For example: “A spring wells up in the centre of the village, and watercress beds lie beside the stream running alongside the main street.”

What is a short sentence with watercress?

“You can try them in any recipe that calls for watercress or cooked spinach.”

What does watercress mean?

Watercress means a perennial European herb, Nasturtium officinale, that grows in freshwater streams; used in salads and as a garnish.