How to Use ketchup in a Sentence

ketchup

noun

• She put ketchup on her hamburger.
• The hearings gave us both the tragedy of Jan. 6 and the absurdity, the terror and the irony, the blood and the ketchup.
  — New York Times, 22 July 2022
• For me, tahini is to most things as ketchup is to fries.
  — Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 27 Jan. 2023
• Heinz is bringing the heat to its ketchup and Heinz 57 steak sauce.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Spread the top of the buns with the mayonnaise and ketchup and cover the burger.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
• Place 1 burger on each roll, and serve hot with ketchup on the side.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2022
• Serve them with grainy mustard for the grownups, or with ketchup for the kiddos.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 27 July 2023
• Watch the video for more on Heughan’s diet habits—and a defense of ketchup.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 22 June 2023
• The fries were thin and crispy—very run-of-the-mill restaurant fries—served with ketchup and garlic aioli.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 11 July 2023
• Acid breaks down tarnish, and there’s just enough in ketchup to restore the shine.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Dec. 2023
• Many of their dishes are served with red sauce that looks just like ketchup.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• The onion rings are served with small ramekins of ketchup, chipotle mayo and garlic aioli.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023
• Tomato sauce is feeling the squeeze and ketchup can’t catch up.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• Others hate it worse than tax day or ketchup on a hot dog.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2021
• In the 1830s, ketchup used to be sold as a medicine to cure indigestion.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 15 July 2024
• Whisk in ketchup, soy sauce, fish sauce, ½ tablespoon of the chile crisp and the rice vinegar.
  — Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• When ready, it's topped with ketchup, mustard, sweet chili Thai sauce and Sriracha.
  — Justin L. MacK, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024
• The start of Heinz's quest:This brave sailor survived at sea eating ketchup.
  — Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• At least all Trump does is throw plates loaded with ketchup.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• Chefs have been known to put all sorts of things inside the sauce, from the black soybean paste to plain old ketchup.
  — Violet Kim, CNN, 28 June 2023
• Bursting with creamed spinach and cheese, and dressed with a glossy coat of ketchup, this is meatloaf 2.0.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 1 Dec. 2022
• There was a big ketchup bottle on the counter but Babe Ruth Field was out of mustard.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2021
• But other than that, there is less mess to clean up with the ketchup bottle method.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Lather on ketchup and onions on both sides of bun with two pieces of pickle.
  — Essence, 11 Feb. 2022
• To my palate, the mayo-ketchup mixture blows out all the other flavors in the sandwich.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 July 2021
• Glucagon and insulin are the yin and the yang, the mustard and the ketchup, the Kanye West and Taylor Swift, of blood sugar control.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• The ketchup added a crucial acid component that, yes, made a lot of sense.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Aug. 2021
• Instead of ketchup or ranch, there’s a small cup of barbecue sauce on the side.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• Light brown sugar and white wine vinegar: Add some extra sweet and sour flavor to the ketchup glaze.
  — Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2024
• Meals at home consisted of spaghetti with ketchup, or fish sticks.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024