"olive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A bowl of cereal crackers lay between them, and the fleshy remains of plump green olives filled another.
- The signature dish of this cozy restaurant by the harbor is stockfish stew, in a tomato base with thinly sliced potatoes and plump, juicy olives.
- As soon as diners are seated, a plate of free appetizers arrives: bruschetta, chunks of nutty Parmesan and a scattering of plump, green olives.
- And when it comes to salads, plump, glossy olives contribute a deliciously salty tang and meaty texture.
- The Roman poet Virgil (70-10 BC) associated "the plump olive" with Pax and he used the olive branch as a symbol of peace in his Aeneid:
- Jack contemplated the twenty imaginary drinks, the martini glasses blushing droplets of condensation, each with a swizzle poked through a plump green olive.
- She fought with the lid on a jar of plump black olives, cursing it as the oven timer beeped.
- Then he whipped a silver lid off a petite ceramic dish to reveal four plump green olives.
- The Lyseni chose a plump olive from the bowl between them.
- Lori asked her, popping a plump olive into her mouth.
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