loaves

[ lohvz ]

/ loʊvz /

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noun

the plural of loaf¹.

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How to use loaves in a sentence

His most famous miracle was making a few loaves and fishes feed a multitude.
Keep Christmas Commercialized!|P. J. O’Rourke|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In them days, you could get two loaves of bread for a nickel.
Stanley Booth on the Life and Hard Times of Blues Genius Furry Lewis|Stanley Booth|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Very good for things like tomatoes and other soft fruits, or small loaves of bread.
The 2012 Holiday Kitchen Gift Guide|Megan McArdle|December 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The long, pale Cuban bread loaves are called flautas or flutes and it should be held like one.
How Havana Perfected the Sandwich|Ana Sofia Pelaez|September 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Jess tiptoed over to the tin box on the table, drew out the two loaves of bread, and slipped them into the laundry bag.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
And He had just filled four thousand hungry people with seven loaves and a few small fishes!
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
And they set the loaves upon the table, and hung up the veils, and finished all the works that they had begun to make.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
He made his loaves, tucked them into the pan and greased the top with bacon grease saved in a tomato can for such use.
Cabin Fever|B. M. Bower
At their feet are seen the loaves and fishes, and in the foreground stand the seven baskets full of fragments that remained.
The Catacombs of Rome|William Henry Withrow

British Dictionary definitions for loaves

loaves

/ (ləʊvz) /

noun

the plural of loaf 1

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