salad bowl
Americannoun
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a large bowl in which a salad, especially a tossed salad, is served.
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a small bowl for individual servings of salad.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of salad bowl
First recorded in 1765–75
Example Sentences
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Others I spoke with will be getting their nutrition from cooked veggies and bringing those in, as opposed to ordering from a slop or salad bowl service.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
The thin-cut vegetables make it easy to nibble a bite at a time, rather than staring down a full head of lettuce in a salad bowl.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026
"There were several weeks when everything went. I had no voice at one point and I was just coughing up industrial levels of mucus. barrages of it into a little Tupperware salad bowl."
From BBC ● May 4, 2024
Still, Republicans retain pockets of political clout in the Southern California suburbs and the state’s vast rural stretches, including the Central Valley farm belt, sometimes called America’s salad bowl for its bountiful agricultural production.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
In the evenings she sat at her dining table and coated her nails with clear nail polish, and ate salad straight from the salad bowl, and watched television, and waited for Sunday.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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