Example Sentences

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People are not going to start quickly pickling onions and making chili jams, but they will grab an exciting bottle of mayonnaise and let it do the heavy lifting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Still, I thought Klapper might tell me to stop pickling, but he didn’t.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2026

"My life changed just from pickling a cucumber," Maddi Neye-Swift told the BBC as she picked up her award for food creator of the year.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2024

This means you’ll have lots of peppers available for canning, pickling and serving roasted and stuffed to large groups of guests.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024

Her job was to fill two bowls with fresh yogurt from the sacks hanging in the basement larder, where the floor was packed dirt, and where the old cook kept his pickling jars.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri