chili sauce
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chili sauce
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
Example Sentences
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I ordered a stir fry of crab and broken rice with greens and yam that came topped with a fried soft-shell crab drizzled with shito, a Ghanaian chili sauce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
And Vijay Singh in 2001 went with a Thai menu that included tom kha gai soup, chicken panang curry, garlic sea scallops and Chilean sea bass with a three-flavor chili sauce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
In recent months, I've fallen in love with chicken breasts again, this time through rich, supple Hainanese chicken rice topped with tangy chili sauce.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2023
Bright dots of chili sauce on the plate add both eye and tongue candy — spark — to the assembly.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
They ate mealie porridge, called sadza, with tomato, onion, and chili sauce; boiled pumpkin leaves; and okra with peanut butter.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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