bagel
a leavened, doughnut-shaped, firm-textured roll, with a brownish glazed surface, made of dough first poached and then baked.
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How to use bagel in a sentence
If you love bagels, you’ll probably want one with wider slots.
Best toaster: Get perfectly golden slices every time | PopSci Commerce Team | February 10, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWe slice bagels into ½ -inch slices vertically instead of slicing the bagel once horizontally.
Hints From Heloise: A stocked hall closet is lesson for the pandemic and beyond | Heloise Heloise | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostSomeday in the not-too-distant future you might be able to nosh on a bagel with real schmear that doesn’t contribute to the climate crisis.
The wildest engineering innovations of 2020 | By Sara Chodosh and Andrew Rosenblum | December 3, 2020 | Popular-ScienceCrosby joked that he grew up in “a tough neighborhood,” where he was part of a gang that also included a pickpocket known as “One-Finger Louie” who stole nothing but bagels and doughnuts.
Norm Crosby, comedian who mangled words with great extinction, dies at 93 | Harrison Smith | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostThis two-slice toaster from Breville has a five-stage browning dial and buttons for bagel, frozen, cancel, and “a bit more.”
These pieces of kitchen gear make excellent gifts | PopSci Commerce Team | October 6, 2020 | Popular-Science
He orders a toasted bagel and asks to charge it to a room he is certainly not staying in.
I Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal | Olivia Nuzzi | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTeachout took a question on redistricting and another on her favorite kind of bagel.
Can New York Democrat Zephyr Teachout Stop Governor Andrew Cuomo? | David Freedlander | August 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe puts a bagel in the conveyer toaster, but it never comes out the other end.
‘The Leftovers’ Review: A Fever Dream You Can’t Wake Up From | Andrew Romano | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe reaches in—and pulls out the charred bagel, one half at a time.
‘The Leftovers’ Review: A Fever Dream You Can’t Wake Up From | Andrew Romano | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJust this morning, while enjoying breakfast at a chain bagel shop, I was entertained with 30 minutes of uninterrupted jazz.
Jazz (The Music of Coffee and Donuts) Has Respect, But It Needs Love | Ted Gioia | June 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut donner and bagel, what need you be so curious about the life of this boy, who is neither your bloot nor kin?
Quentin Durward | Sir Walter ScottThe traffic was mostly bicycling bankers stopping for a fresh bagel on their way down to the business district.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for bagel
beigel
/ (ˈbeɪɡəl) /
a hard ring-shaped bread roll, characteristic of Jewish baking
Origin of bagel
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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