How to Use salad greens in a Sentence

salad greens

plural noun
  • Use prewashed, bagged salad greens as its base, and the prep gets even easier.
    Alisa Bowman, SELF, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Think salad greens, green beans, or boxed vegetables covered in a cheesy sauce.
    Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
  • On my plate is something akin to creamed corn, salad greens, broccoli florets, and roasted potatoes.
    Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The dressing’s low oil content — plus the addition of mayonnaise, which helps create an emulsion — means the salad greens stay crunchy and keep for longer.
    Eric Kim, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2023
  • While some items don't enjoy the process—say, salad greens and delicate sauces—most foods take pretty kindly to life at zero degrees.
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Now, billions of salad greens are unfolding from those same woody plants, providing a scent and texture savored for an instant before one sweep of the moose’s head strips a wispy branch.
    Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2023
  • Guli ran through farmlands in the Imperial Valley, where the largest share of Colorado River water is used to grow crops ranging from alfalfa to salad greens.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • There are thunderheads of salad greens, plenty of sweet potatoes, and colorful squash blossoms.
    Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 12 June 2023
  • Discard any foods like bread or salad greens that may have become contaminated by juices dripping from raw meat, poultry, or fish.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This garden uses energy-efficient LED grow lights to promote the growth of herbs, flowers, and salad greens with little effort.
    Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Sweet potatoes, Greek yogurt, salmon, sourdough bread, salad greens, cheese, rice, chili crisp, baked tofu, marinated tempeh, chicken thighs, olive oil, eggs, flaky salt.
    Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The colorful mustard is packed with vitamins A and C, making delicious and nutritious salad greens.
    Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Eliza Fournier, the urban farm center director, said the indoor greenhouse using hydroponic and aquaponic agricultural techniques will grow salad greens, herbs and other crops like peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms and more.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • California’s conventional vegetable farming landscape was changing, and Underwood had pivoted to growing baby vegetables and salad greens.
    Indrani Sen, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024

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