sugar bowl
noun
a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
sugar bowls
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pluralof sugar bowl.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Yet it is not at all obvious where all the money came form for hand-loomed woolen shawls, vintage artisan sugar bowls and impeccable woodwork, furniture and interior painting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
Its regular customers include taxi drivers, who carried out steaming silver tins, and West African immigrants from the neighborhood who settled into platters at tables outfitted with A1 steak sauce and white porcelain sugar bowls.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015
That landscape is populated by such humble objects as salt and pepper shakers, oil and vinegar cruets, and sugar bowls and cream pitchers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2012
Upperclassmen eat in baronial halls, may sit under imposing chandeliers or by an imported Burgundian fireplace, use silver sugar bowls.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are silver-lidded sugar bowls and containers that look rather like urns.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
