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How to pronounce gravy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall
Type of happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent
Type Words
Synonyms pan gravy
Type of juice
Type Words
Type of sauce

Examples of gravy

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The sweetness of the sauce in the country ham clashed with the gravy underneath.
From the sfgate.com
Anything beyond that would have been gravy, Bill said, but his brother excelled.
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We always sugar-cured our meat, and when Mom cooked ham, she made red-eye gravy.
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I was trying to make a point about the Brussels gravy train, but it didn't work.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The traditional version layers well-browned fries, gravy and fresh cheese curds.
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He used to cook bangers, mash and Bisto gravy badly in a shabby room in Jericho.
From the thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
The potatoes were chunky and buttery, just waiting for a pass through the gravy.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Hearty hand-shaved noodles basked in bowls of broth and plates of brisket gravy.
From the philly.com
You can get many breakfasts covered with country gravy or smothered with cheese.
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  • A sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
  • The seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
  • Boom: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"
  • Gravy is a sauce made often from the juices that run naturally from meat or vegetables during cooking. Strictly speaking, in the UK the gravy is those unthickened juices (particularly from meat) but the Americanisation is widely in use as well. ...
  • Gravy, (born Labon Kenneth Blackburn Leeweltine Buckonon Benjamin) is a former entertainer, famous throughout the cricket world, for his antics at the Antigua Recreation Ground in St John's, Antigua. In February 2004, Gravy was shot in the arm. ...
  • Jamal Woolard (born July 8, 1975) is an American rapper and actor who portrayed The Notorious B.I.G. in the biopic Notorious.
  • A gravy is an American-style jus that has been thickened with a roux. This roux can be made using butter and flour or by cooking flour into some of the fat skimmed off the jus. ...
  • To dream of eating gravy, portends failing health and disappointing business.
  • A sauce made from pan drippings and thickened with a roux