How to Use gruel in a Sentence

gruel

noun

• At the school, one of the nuns shoves her face into a bowl of gray gruel.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• And if this is the strongest stuff that Durham has, that's pretty thin gruel.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
• These were breed, dryer, freed, freer, greed and gruel.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• Meals are gruel, which the nurses cart around in large enamel pails.
  — Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
• Salad and leftover gruel from the day before had been laid out.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2018
• The options for startups forced to raise money in down markets are so much thin gruel.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 24 May 2022
• The plate also serves as a lid for the bowl, with a double gasket that will keep your gruel from slopping out into a pack.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 7 Apr. 2020
• In short, this is a memoir spun from the thin gruel of musty propaganda and cherished grudges.
  — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022
• The cocoon arrives in the jail cell as a stowaway, an unexpected lump in a bowl of prison gruel.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• Hazan, meanwhile, only knew how to make gruel for pigs.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• Seavey asked of a white dog who ate its pile of meat-gruel with exceptional neatness, leaving nothing but a tidy stain on the snow.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2021
• The gruel mixture, which now includes wet food, should be transitioned in as part of their diet until about five or six weeks old.
  — Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022
• Against the measuring stick of a global perspective, the drama of D.C. is thin gruel indeed.
  — Author: Hugh Hewitt, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 June 2017
• The thought of buying 5 acres in Napa conjured up images of us eating cold gruel under a bare lightbulb.
  — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
• Working an absurd amount of hours, spending no money, eating gruel three times a day.
  — Jennifer Mazi, photos By Rich Sugg,, kansascity.com, 23 May 2017
• But even allowing for the erosion of standards, this is thin gruel for both news reporting and legal claims.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Sep. 2019
• In one of the vessels, the types of fatty acids present, and their carbon-13 ratios, suggest that someone had mixed either human breast milk or a thin gruel made from pig fat with the livestock milk.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2019
• To signal that Zhou loved the people, he is shown working late while his aides fret about his health, and refusing a bowl of gruel because there are Chinese without enough to eat.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• That’s pretty thin gruel compared with the Nasdaq initiative, suggesting that the exchange may have to fall into line now that Nasdaq has set the pace.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• Yet the Papadopoulos intelligence was thin gruel—a random comment by a drunk guy making a vague claim.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
• Confined to a prison in the Republic of Mordovia, she was fed gruel, lost 40 pounds and endured temperatures that plunged to 40 below zero.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 13 July 2017
• Helping keep them fed is a volunteer corps of about 80, who work two-hour shifts weighing kittens, taking notes on their eating habits and mixing gruel for those more than a month or so old.
  — Karin Brulliard, The Denver Post, 6 June 2017
• Guards beat and sometimes killed their captives, who lived on a rice gruel that occasionally included bits of fish.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 25 May 2020
• During Ramadan, Samia Hassan often walks three miles to another Gaza neighborhood to line up for wheat gruel cooked in a large cauldron over an open fire.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2018
• Having no stomachs to speak of, the carp must eat almost constantly in order to derive energy from this greenish gruel.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2012
• When beginning the transition into wet foods, it is suggested to make a gruel mixture.
  — Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022
• Another option is to cut the gruel with sawdust, though that might make residents (aka potential workers) sick.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2018
• Mehetabel was treating her daughter Sarah Huntington (Adriana Mazza), one of her 10 children with gruel.
  — Kitty Leshay, Courant Community, 14 June 2017
• Conscientious (and frequently exhausted) mothers awoke at the crack of dawn to stand over a hot, wood-burning stove for hours on end, cooking and stirring gruels or mush made of barley, cracked wheat, or oats.
  — Howard Markel, Smithsonian, 28 July 2017
• The result, at worst, is work that reinforces reactionary ideologies, and, at best, is a kind of tasteless gruel that leaves no real impression behind.
  — Reid McCarter, Wired, 4 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024