Vienna sausage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Vienna sausage
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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In a box sits his bait: bits of chicken from a local Jamaican restaurant, a strip from KFC, maybe a Vienna sausage.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
The Wonder Bread and canned Vienna sausage and Kool-Aid with no sugar.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2019
It seemed pretty old, and was Band-Aid colored, about three inches long, and not much bigger around than a Vienna sausage, which was interesting to me.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 28, 2015
Our children are bilingual in the native languages of each parent: they speak both fluent kale and Vienna sausage, Mormonism and godlessness, gay and military, left and right, brown and white, Manhattan and desert.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2013
The cabinets are only filled with hurricane food: cold Vienna sausage, stale crackers, and gallons of water.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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