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Examples of gruel
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Still, a starving man won't pass up gruel just because it's not Mom's pot roast.
From the time.com
Haggard students queue for gruel and wave placards about their next futile demo.
From the guardian.co.uk
Gruel said that his client denied these allegations and would plead not guilty.
From the en.wikipedia.org
America was a smorgasbord before our melting pot reduced everything to gray gruel.
From the washingtontimes.com
Can you stomach a steady diet of stale stadium hot dogs and press-room gruel?
From the philly.com
It's the fairy tale stuff of Goldilocks, or the pauper gruel of Oliver Twist.
From the npr.org
In Nigeria, it is commonly eaten for breakfast with gruel made from millet or corn.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Most of this would have been consumed as porridge or gruel or used for making beer.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Soon I was served a cold meal of spinach gruel and sugared rice with Turkish coffee.
From the theatlantic.com
- A thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)
- (grueling) arduous: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- Gruel is a type of food consisting of some type of cerealu2014oat, wheat or rye flour, or riceu2014boiled in water or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk than eaten and may not need to be cooked. Historically, gruel has been a staple of the Western diet, especially for peasants...
- (grueling) alternative spelling of gruelling
- (grueling (adj)) Physically or mentally demanding to the point of exhaustion
- (Grueling) exhausting; very tiring
- Cheap food made by boiling a small amount of oatmeal in a large amount of water. Dietary staple in the workhouse, this is what Oliver Twist asks for more of.
- A food made by boiling cereal meal or legumes in milk or water. Gruel may be made thick like a porridge or thin like a drink. For complementary feeding, gruel should be made thick.
- Thin, easily digested porridge made by cooking meal in water or milk.
