Vienna sausage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Vienna sausage
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Chucky wore a tank top, one arm curled around a net bag full of cans: Campbell’s soup, Vienna sausage, tuna, mixed vegetables.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2021
The Wonder Bread and canned Vienna sausage and Kool-Aid with no sugar.
From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2019
It seemed pretty old, and was Band-Aid colored, about three inches long, and not much bigger around than a Vienna sausage, which was interesting to me.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 28, 2015
Our children are bilingual in the native languages of each parent: they speak both fluent kale and Vienna sausage, Mormonism and godlessness, gay and military, left and right, brown and white, Manhattan and desert.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2013
Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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