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How to use zucchini in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Zucchini means a courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit. Example: “Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.”

More sentences with zucchini

  • Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.From the entry yield
  • The dish was garnished with zucchini strings.From the entry string
  • Zucchini and cauliflower seem to be widely scorned vegetables.From the entry scorned
  • She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.From the entry profuse
  • Transform tomatoes, sweet corn and zucchini into BLT Bruschetta, Creamy Gazpacho, Street Corn Guacamole and Zucchini-Feta Fritters.2025 August 28, Meredith Deeds, “Savor the last days of Minnesota’s summer produce with these appetizer recipes”, in The Minnesota Star…. From the entry BLT
  • Good choice.” “Thank you.” “(inhales deeply) "Good choice."” (indistinct chatter) “Zoodles are zucchini noodles.” “"Sweet cheeks"?2022 January 13, James Gunn, “A Whole New Whirled” (26:41 from the start), in Peacemaker, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Peacemaker (John…. From the entry cherubic
  • Tender vine vegetables such as small heirloom tomatoes, zucchini (courgette) and eggplant (aubergine) are naturally skewerable.2013, Ross Dobson, Fired Up: Vegetarian. From the entry skewerable
  • Moroccan curried crab and streaks of minty, lemony yogurt add luxury to a supersimple zucchini soup ($14).2009 January 24, Corey Mintz, “Lunching well at Forte bistro and lounge”, in Toronto Star. From the entry Moroccan
  • To enjoy zoodles throughout the week, prepare a double or triple batch of spiral-sliced zucchini by completing Steps 2 and 3.2016, Maria Emmerich, Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking: Meal Plans and Time Saving. From the entry zoodles
  • “That shade of green makes you look like a zucchini,” Alana said rudely (“said rudely” is the adverbial tag line).2010, Ellen Potter with Anne Mazer, Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook. From the entry tag line
  • Cocozelle, which are mostly grown in Italy, are longer and thinner than zucchini and slightly bulbous at the flower end.2008, Russ Parsons, How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table, →ISBN. From the entry cocozelle
  • Grate 1 carrot or I zucchini in a salad shooter or blender and turn out into the bowl.1994, Linda G. Rector-Page, Party Lights: Healthy Party Foods & Earthwise Entertaining, page 154. From the entry salad shooter
  • The zucchina (or zucchino, customarily used in the plural, zucchini) was absolutely new to Europe, along with many other squashes.1992, Stefano Milioni, Columbus Menu: Italian Cuisine after the First Voyage of Christopher Columbus, 1492-1992, page 82. From the entry zucchina
  • Most of the gathering was milling around them, talking over plates of pizza puffs, zucchini fingers, and teriyakied chicken wings.1988, Richard Hilary, Pillow of the Community. From the entry teriyakied
  • Technically, there is no such thing as one zucchini.1977 September 1, Marian H. Mundy, “Today’s Mundy: Under-Beamed and Over-Zucchinied”, in The Bernardsville News, volume 79, number 36…. From the entry broccolo
  • After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).2013 September 1, “The 'A' in LGBT”, in Counterpoint […], volume 35, number 1, Cambridge, Mass.: Advocates of Rational Discourse, →ISSN…. From the entry squish
  • If you master a kolokithopita, you have mastered the world of pies; substitute any other vegetable for the zucchini and replace the mint and dill with other herbs.2016, Alexandra Stratou, Cooking with Loula: Greek Recipes from My Family to Yours, page 167. From the entry kolokithopita
  • My favorite was the Japanese Summer Noodles, a sproutless steaming bowl of thin whole wheat noodles in a tamari soy sauce broth with mushrooms, zucchini, celery.1987, Cincinnati Magazine, page 145. From the entry sproutless
  • Around them all, Negroes carried gunboats of mashed potatoes, spinach, shrimp, zucchini, pot roast, to the long, glittering steam tables, preparing to feed a noontide invasion of Yoyodyne workers.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry noontide

Meaning of zucchini

  1. noun A courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit.
  2. noun The edible fruit of this variety of squash.

Full definition of zucchini

Questions about zucchini in a sentence

How do you use zucchini in a sentence?
Zucchini is used as a noun. For example: “Zucchini plants always seem to produce a high yield of fruit.”
What is a short sentence with zucchini?
“The dish was garnished with zucchini strings.”
What does zucchini mean?
Zucchini means a courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit.

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