Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pickles
IPA transcription: [p'ɪkəlz]
Usage examples
  • The jars for this purpose should not have been previously used for pickles.
  • There was a lavish expenditure of bread and cold meats, coffee, and pickles and cheese.
  • Now, Katy, don't waste another thought on such miserable things as pickles and undershirts.
  • Put a little bag of "mixed spices," such as are used in making pickles, on to cook with the fowl.
  • Cut off the head, skin and bone; chop the herring; add chopped apples, pickles, potatoes, olives and capers.
  • "Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.
  • Then mix 1 cup of chopped fish with 3 sweet pickles minced fine, and 2 tablespoonfuls of Madras chutney; moisten with 2 tablespoonfuls of Hollandaise sauce.
  • There was turkey and chicken, with delicious gravy and stuffing, and there were half-a-dozen vegetables, with cranberry jelly, and celery, and pickles; and as for the way these delicacies were served, the Ruggleses never forgot it as long as they lived.
  • He was cold over Bagshot Heath, where the native chattered more and more, and Jos Sahib took some brandy-and-water; in fact, when he drove into town he was as full of wine, beer, meat, pickles, cherry-brandy, and tobacco as the steward's cabin of a steam-packet.
  • But the majority of them sneered at the champion, and many refused point-blank to consider any proposition to discard the advertisements. Indeed, some were proud of them, and believed it a mark of distinction to have their fences and sheds announce an eye-remedy or several varieties of pickles.