gruels
- plural of gruel.
Example Sentences
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Agriculture softened our ancestors’ diets with processed gruels, stews and yogurts, and this fare led to gradually shrinking lower jaws to produce today’s overcrowded mouths.”
From Fox News • Mar. 18, 2019
Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Otherwise the routine treatment diet is given—water, then albumen water, followed by broth, milk and fruit beverages, fine cereal gruels, etc.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
A return to normal diet must be made gradually, giving cereal gruels, milk toast, and broth before the more solid articles of diet suitable to the age of the child.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
The diet should consist of milk, broths, or thin gruels, and plenty of water should be allowed.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
