Sentence examples for plateful from high-quality English sources.

• He is back, with a plateful of pork and beans.

• Inside Germany, she looks as stiff as a plateful of spaghetti.

• I couldn’t finish the plateful, but that was not for lack of trying or enjoyment.

• Of this preparation a tolerably abundant plateful was apportioned to each pupil. 

• Serve a colorful plateful of them as is, hot off the griddle, or to accompany grilled pork chops.

• They looked, however, like a generous plateful of filled chocolates that had been left out in the sun.

• (Never mind that a plateful of grass-fed steak has about the same amount of omega-3s as a bite of salmon.)

• It’s not easy to eat a plateful of canapés while holding on to a three-hundred-page book, but somehow he managed.

Use plateful in a sentence.

• Singles, meanwhile, have Black Day: they eat a plateful of black-bean noodles to console themselves for their lack of Valentine’s Day gifts.

• For an easy dessert, sandwich them together with buttercream, or serve a large plateful alongside your favourite ice-cream so guests can just dip in.

• Next to that, he spotted a plateful of salo - white pork fat - a Slavic delicacy and the sort of high-calorie food that hikers take with them into the mountains.

• Entry to the cellars includes a guided tour and a memento glass in which to taste their six varieties of wine, with a plateful of cheese thrown in for good measure.

• The closest thing the Dutch have to a national dish, the combination of mashed potato, cabbage, bacon and sausage is quite a plateful, especially when it comes with an extra meatball.

• However, those who want a real plateful of goodness should look no further than the 5oz hanger steak, served with truffled mash made from ‘the finest ratte (potatoes) in the land’ – according to Tom.

• She emptied the plateful of water, replaced the sprig of box behind the looking-glass, and arranged the chairs in their places, and was ready to go downstairs when there appeared before her her son and daughter-in-law.

• The combination of mashed potato, cabbage, bacon and sausage makes for quite a plateful, and while there’s plenty of other hearty, traditional grub on offer here, all portions are huge, so make sure you bring an appetite.

plateful sentence examples

• “Well now, she shouldn’t have taken the brooch, Marilla, or told stories about it,” he admitted, mournfully surveying his plateful of unromantic pork and greens as if he, like Anne, thought it a food unsuited to crises of feeling, “but she’s such a little thing—such an interesting little thing.

• Just as Anne emerged triumphantly from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in rushed Diana Barry, white faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head.

• His sister-in-law Princess Palatine wrote that ''very often'' the king ate as much as ''four plates of different soups, an entire pheasant, a partridge, a large plateful of salad, mutton cut up in its juice with garlic, two good pieces of ham, a plateful of cakes, and fruits and jams.''

• The soup could have done with some accompanying bread, but this minor blip was forgiven with the arrival of a towering plate of ingenious courgette linguine with almond and parsley pesto, nutty wild mushrooms, rocket and parmesan – a juicy plateful of deep flavours offering all the pleasures of pasta with none of the carb coma.