How to Use Bolognese in a Sentence
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Add red curry paste to this creamy Bolognese sauce for nuance and depth.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2025
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This week is kangaroo mince Bolognese with a tonnnneee of basil.
—Refinery29 Australia Team, refinery29.com, 22 Jan. 2024
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As this recipe proves, a soulful Bolognese sauce doesn't require hours in the kitchen.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2026
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The Bolognese sauce that is lightly tossed with spinach tagliatelle doesn’t have much punch.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
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Top with your favorite Bolognese or marinara sauce and grated parmesan cheese.
—Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
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Anything [like] ‘Bolognese’ — that could turn off a lot of Americans.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
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Sunday gravy, meatballs, lasagna Bolognese and ravioli are among them.
—Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2023
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Italian dishes - homemade gnocchi and Bolognese sauce - abound.
—Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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Chicken liver, steak or even Bolognese sauce and pasta are some of the ingredients that come tucked into pitas.
—Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
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Transfer the pasta or other starch to individual plates and top with the Bolognese sauce.
—Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Trattoria Da Me The place for tagliatelle al ragù—real Bolognese.
—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2025
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Carnesecca always believed a rough loss should never get in the way of a glass of Chianti and fettuccine with a Bolognese sauce.
—Mike Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
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Later on, friends will arrive for an overnight stay, and the dining table is already half set for the Bolognese pasta dinner that Grey plans to cook.
—Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2025
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One Facebook reviewer claims the Bolognese sauce is as good as his Sicilian grandmother’s.
—Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2025
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In Italy, Bolognese sauce is traditionally served with a flat, ribbonlike pasta like tagliatelle.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025
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On the menu at New York City’s 11 public hospitals is pasta with Bolognese sauce, without the meat.
—Cara Buckley, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
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February’s supper is Lasagna Bolognese with focaccia garlic bread.
—Pamela Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
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The courtyard was home to one of the first private theaters in the city and is where other artists (like Bolognese painter Antonio Basoli) were known to work.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2023
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Pumpkin Bolognese Bolognese is a classic Italian pasta dish built with ground beef, aromatics, and a rich tomato base.
—Ashia Aubourg, Outside, 10 Oct. 2025
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The uncommon mashup results in dishes such as Bolognese arancini balls and roasted eggplant ravioli, as well as gnocchi cheese alfredo.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
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Tortellini en brodo—in both—is a Bolognese standard dish that can be found, as one option, at Trattoria La Montanara.
—Kelsy Chauvin, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Nov. 2023
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Traditional eggplant Parmesan, lasagna with Bolognese sauce, and the restaurant's famous spaghetti and meatballs are favorites.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
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The lasagna sandwiches four types of cheese (ricotta, Parmesan, Romano and mozzarella) and a Bolognese sauce between pasta sheets.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
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Pasta selections on the menu are chicken Alfredo, cheese tortellini with pesto and cremini mushrooms, and a Bolognese thick with beef and Italian sausage.
—Heidi Finley july 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2025
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This delicious Bolognese sauce serves 12 generously or 16 with smaller portions.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 June 2023
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As the trailer demonstrates, Bracco's bold, outspoken Roberta is a proud Sicilian with no love for her Bolognese counterparts.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 May 2025
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Selden’s handmade pastas range from a light agnolotti in a slippery broth of brown butter and filled with creamy sweet potatoes to a hearty tagliatelle Bolognese to a comforting cacio e pepe made with chewy bucatini noodles.
—Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2024
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For more significant fuel, the pool-adjacent Olivine restaurant has deeply satisfying wagyu Bolognese atop rigatoni for dinner and also opens for lunch and afternoon snacks.
—Andy Wang, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
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Rife has often spoken about the conundrum of being a good looking comic—in his first special, on the Today show, and last week over a plate of spaghetti Bolognese in Lower Manhattan with me.
—Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2023
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After your salad of choice, ponder entree options including mafalde pasta Bolognese and meatballs; handkerchief pasta stuffed with meat ragu, ricotta and mozzarella and baked in bechamel; or braised short ribs with rigatoni and vodka cream sauce.
—Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
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