Example Sentences
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Meaning: Do you want your dish smothered in sauce made from roasted green chiles, or a simmered counterpart fashioned from dried red chile pods?
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
On an embroidered picnic laid out on the grass, a group of friends chatted over tea as food simmered gently on a gas stove.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
Conflict between the two companies has simmered for years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
There’s also mille-feuille nabe, a Japanese hot pot dish that’s layered with napa cabbage and thin slices of pork belly simmered in dashi broth.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026
Their faces, their flesh simmered with whiteness and they seemed so much a part of another life, so separated from me now that I felt consumed with loneliness.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
