brown toast
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He had artfully arranged the plates to resemble Mama Woof, with fried eggs for her yellow wolf eyes, crisp bacon strips for whiskers, and two halves of buttered brown toast for her alert, upright ears.
From Literature
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"If I ate sweets it wouldn't hurt very much. If I ate brown toast I'd be in agony because my body wasn't ready to work that hard," Ms Thomas said.
From BBC
Brown toast and cheese under the broiler.
From Salon
I sat there eating the piece of brown toast while she went into the bathroom and flushed the handful of egg, which could not be salvaged, down the toilet.
From Literature
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From my American perspective, it was a bit like a lobster roll, but with even more of a textural contrast between the crunchy brown toast and the tender shrimp.
From New York Times
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