: one of a pair of slender sticks (as of wood or plastic) held between the thumb and fingers and used to lift food to the mouth
Never spear food with a chopstick! If you're having trouble picking up your food, a spoon is your plan B.—Laura Barry
—usually used in plural
To eat rice, both etiquette and practicality dictate that you use chopsticks to pick up a morsel of meat, fish, or whatever …; position it over the rice bowl, allowing its juices or sauce to drip into the rice; eat the morsel; then shovel some rice into your mouth with the chopsticks.—Saveur
"… I do get uncomfortable when people use chopsticks for every Asian food. Traditionally, I may use chopsticks when my food is served in a soup bowl with noodles or rice, but we often use forks and spoons for our dishes. …"—Darrell Loo, quoted in Feast
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Examples of chopstick in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe eight-piece stainless steel set comes with a knife, fork, spoon, chopsticks, straight straw, bent straw, straw cleaning brush, and carrying case.—Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 July 2024 Though his early music was more abrasive and used unconventional tools like chopsticks to coax harsh sounds from his strings, his later music piled on the phaser goop, resulting in some of the purest and most comforting drone imaginable.—Daniel Bromfield, SPIN, 16 July 2024 In one scene his slightly goofy leading man had to juggle three languages as well as chopsticks.—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 11 July 2024 Use a straw or the end of a chopstick to poke holes 1 inch apart all over the cake.—Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for chopstick
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