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Examples of pepper shaker in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The insulated bag comes with four sets of stainless steel flatware, plates, wine glasses, a cheese knife and wine opener, salt and pepper shaker, picnic blanket, and a bamboo cutting board.
—Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2024
The family still has a salt-and-pepper shaker set that Tipsword made aboard his ship and brought home to his mother while visiting.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
There are a lot of salt and pepper shaker sets out there, but few double as works of art for the kitchen table in the same way as this duo from designer Anissa Kermiche does.
—Vanessa Powell, ELLE, 21 Nov. 2022
At the end of it, Corbin Carroll, Alek Thomas and Daulton Varsho met in center field, placed their gloves on their heads, put their hands in the middle and twisted their wrists as if grinding a pepper shaker.
—Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
In the ashes of her home, only a few items remained intact: a stack of buttons, a salt and pepper shaker, some coins, a horseshoe, a towel rack.
—Christina Maxouris, CNN, 8 Jan. 2022
Caribou graze at sunset at the Point Riche lighthouse, a pepper shaker-like structure that has been guiding ships through the area since the late 1800s.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2021
For a base pay of $3.60 an hour, Pearson, the Bob Evans waitress, has had to sanitize every single ketchup bottle and salt and pepper shaker after each diner walks out.
—Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 29 June 2021
Several items that may have been on the table, like salt and pepper shakers, will now be available on demand.
—Jill K. Robinson, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1895, in the meaning defined above
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“Pepper shaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pepper%20shaker. Accessed 12 Jun. 2024.
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