gruel
noun
a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
gruels
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pluralof gruel.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
Convalescence should be followed with sedative medicines, and during all the severe stages of the disease, withhold all food, except light gruels after protracted abstinence.
Gelatin, soft eggs, soft toast, fine cereal gruels, well-cooked rice, well-baked white potatoes, tender rare beefsteak or lamb chops, the breast of chicken, sweetbreads, and brains are recommended.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
As anything of that kind would have made use for Jim's coffin-handles, I had to put up with soups and gruels.
From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
