brown toast
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"If I ate sweets it wouldn't hurt very much. If I ate brown toast I'd be in agony because my body wasn't ready to work that hard," Ms Thomas said.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2022
From my American perspective, it was a bit like a lobster roll, but with even more of a textural contrast between the crunchy brown toast and the tender shrimp.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2016
You should be eating … prunes and bananas and muesli and dry brown toast, washed down with black tea.
From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2012
The full English breakfast, £5.80, was bacon and Cumberland sausage, impossibly juicy charred tomatoes, a pile of grilled mushrooms, eggs, baked beans and brown toast and jam.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2011
I sat there eating the piece of brown toast while she went into the bathroom and flushed the handful of egg, which could not be salvaged, down the toilet.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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