meatloaf
noun
a dish of ground meat, often mixed with other ingredients, as breadcrumbs and seasonings, molded in the shape of a loaf and baked.
meat loaf
-
a variation of
meatloaf.
Example Sentences
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Or, as the writer John Updike once confessed, “I don’t like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburgers and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Packages of Tyson food beef meat loaf are reflected in a mirror as they sit on a refrigerator for sale at a grocery store in Encinitas, California May 29, 2014.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2022
His world-hopping was accomplished in part through entertaining, hosting small dinners at which he cooked lamb or spicy meat loaf.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2020
For his birthdays, she’d make bacon-wrapped meat loaf or “lasagna with all the types of meat possible.”
From Washington Times ● May 27, 2019
I ask, after a minute of watching this gray-haired lady make meat loaf.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
