Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars.

For starters, go for the zuppa toscana, a thick gruel of vegetables and barley.

"Here," the Adept said, extending a cup filled with thick, hot gruel that was flavored with dried fruit.

A gush of thick gruel spurted until the child drew back.

He felt refreshed and dug into the thick gruel as if it were his favorite dish.

Pirão is a thick gravy-like gruel prepared by cooking fish bits (such as heads and bones) with cassava flour.

They had been given a thick gruel three hours before.

Swart Hendrick lifted the beer pot and swallowed a mouthful of the thick white bubbling gruel.

The muddled sentences dribbled away into a gurgling, chortling laugh, which sounded like thick gruel boiling on an open fire.

My wife, Carolyn, opened a jar of baby food and began to feed him a thick gruel about the color of Army fatigues.