bread line
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bread line
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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It’s another scuffle at a bread line and it appears that a bakery in Beirut has been illegally hoarding subsidized wheat imports.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
Her son was already on the bread line but the cost of living crisis has plunged him into poverty, she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2022
In Chernihiv, it was people waiting in a bread line.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
A giant mural featuring a bedraggled Jesus standing in the bread line among the hungry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
Livingstone, it is true, had begun, and with fine enthusiasm at first, a picture of the bread line as they had seen it on New Year's eve.
From The Bread Line A Story of a Paper by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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