string bean
noun
any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
string beans
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pluralof string bean.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And my daughter ate that lie right up along with her string beans.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
She and her husband, who is vegan, mostly cook at home — one dinner last week was black-eyed peas with rice and fresh string beans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
You can get crab cakes, you can get fish and shrimp, you can get hush puppies, macaroni and cheese and string beans.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2022
Gathering a handful of what looks like string beans, the man, a batik craftsman, heads home to make natural dye from them.
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2021
“We got a can of string beans last Friday.”
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
