cocktail sauce
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Only a fool would meddle with the classic cocktail sauce recipe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
You can serve the shrimp hot with the cocktail sauce or let them cool and serve them cold.
From Washington Times • May 28, 2023
The cocktail sauce is made of horseradish, clearing out your sinuses with one small taste.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2022
“PJ ate one of the biggest steaks I’ve ever seen in my life, biggest piles of mashed potatoes, ate the shrimp. I didn’t tell him about the cocktail sauce beforehand,” Franklin said.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2022
“You have cocktail sauce on you, Lita,” he said.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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