barbecue sauce

American  

noun

1. a piquant sauce often containing vinegar, tomatoes, sugar, and spices, used especially for basting in barbecuing meat.

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Example Sentences

For the marinade, you’ll need Korean barbecue sauce, available at most grocery stores.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

My late grandmother, in particular, had a predictable, beloved spread: shrimp cocktail with horseradish-laced sauce; the supermarket veggie platter with ranch; crockpot meatballs simmered in barbecue sauce and grape jelly; salsa with Tostito’s scoops.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

A well-tuned ensemble found the comic joy and slathered it around like scrumptious barbecue sauce as questions about fate, family duty and moral choice were hotly debated.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

On the menu is William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” smothered in barbecue sauce.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024

The barbecue sauce was still on my nose; it looked like dried blood.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson