How to Use bagel in a Sentence

bagel

noun
  • There’s a sourdough base which results in a bagel that has slightly more tang.
    Janelle Bitker, Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Other dishes: With great bagels come great bagel sandwiches.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • There have been silver linings too, like keeping in closer touch with her bagel-peddling counterparts.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Using a slotted spoon or spatula remove the bagel from the water and place on the prepared baking sheet.
    Beth Segal, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2021
  • They can be enjoyed on their own as a filling snack or paired with other items like oatmeal, bagels, or fruit salad, to boost their protein content.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Food & Wine has lauded a pair of Cleveland eateries, including them on a list of best bagel shops in the country.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Mar. 2021
  • His cucumber, salmon, avocado, cream cheese bagel salad is his most popular.
    Sonal Dutt, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Pacific Heights bar the Snug has been hosting Schlok’s and its heftier version of the bagel on weekends.
    Janelle Bitker, Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The last person who brought in bagels expressed surprise that people liked the asiago cheese bagels because three of us came in at the same time asking if there were cheese bagels left.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • My friend has even started using it to boil bagels—a task that had previously been a challenge since adding cold dough to the water would drop the temperature of the boiling water.
    Emily Farris, Bon Appétit, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Barefoot and eating a bagel, 13-year-old Graciela Leahy settles in front of her iMac for a stretch of nearly six straight hours at her bedroom desk.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Boys by Girls shot the group for multiple issues, following them to their favorite hangouts, like a 24-hour bagel shop in Brick Lane.
    New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Two doorways before the postwar building where his office had been I was taken aback to find a bagel café, a Judaica shop, and a Jewish bookstore.
    Laura Moser, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Miller remembers maybe one other Jewish family in town and introducing his schoolmates to a doughy delicacy known as the bagel.
    David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Daniela Moreira practically apologizes for not having a better origin story for her deli take on cacio e pepe ($4.50), in which a bagel stands in for pasta.
    Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • So, this is what the world has come to … a pre-cheesed bagel.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Do the pizza, which uses the bagel dough for the crust.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Grab the Fishy bagel with the whitefish spread and giddy up.
    Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Don’t think for a minute, though, that this bagel doesn’t come with a big hole in it.
    Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 30 May 2024
  • While nicely spiced, the sausage patty was small compared to the size of the bagel.
    cleveland, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The other day, someone there stole a bagel from a deli.
    Kashana Cauley, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Tien picked at a bagel in her office and checked her phone.
    Byreuters, ABC News, 1 May 2022
  • Shug’s bacon, egg, and cheese on a bagel is a wormhole to the East Coast.
    Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Your run-of-the-mill bagel from the grocery store simply will not do.
    Esther Choy, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The ube and kimchi bagel is a swirl of orange and purple.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2023
  • And that was an improvement over his bagel in the first half of Game 1.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
  • There are tents with groups stretching and tents with bagels.
    Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Serve it with corn chips or bagel chips, or just eat it up with your fork.
    Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The people who order a bagel with the middle pulled out.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Scrape in the eggy bagel mixture, then evenly spread it out.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023

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