curried

past tense of curry

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of curried For a taste of the Caribbean, head to Kingston Kitchen at the Village Inn, where chef Shawn Fearon serves the flavors of his native Jamaica—oxtail, jerk chicken, ackee and saltfish, curried goat, and the best whitefish sandwich on the island. Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025 Another option is to sample the king fish platter — curried, stewed, or fried. Loán Lake, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curried
Verb
  • Show Viz Nuno Espirito Santo’s Nottingham Forest had counter-attacking licked.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The afternoon sun licked the windscreen of the car, and the heat boiled my skin.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hakeem actually whipped his members to shut the government down.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Folding whipped topping gently into the pudding mixture keeps the filling fluffy and mousse-like.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The 12-day war with Iran in June was especially traumatizing, as Iranian missiles pounded Israeli cities and families slept in bomb shelters.
    Daniel Estrin, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Rescuers are struggling to reach at least 200 hikers trapped in a Mount Everest valley by an unexpectedly fierce weekend snowstorm that pounded the mountain with snow and heavy rain, according to Chinese state media CCTV.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Conservatives on social media immediately lashed out at the news.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Some Bethpage fans lashed out in a way that added to the embarrassment of the day.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Cebu quake also happened after a tropical storm late last week battered Cebu and other provinces in the country’s central region.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Dramatic video shows the homes breaking apart and being swept away by waves as the surf battered the shoreline.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Prior to her death, Cáceres herself had her car pelted with stones, and faced shots fired into the air as a warning, Zúñiga recalls.
    Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Get too close to the smoke billowing out of the preseason hype machine, and you might get pelted by a gear or screw spewing from the engine.
    David Ubben, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The long hair of their youth is now gone, chopped away.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Daka said the chicken is cooked and, as it is cooked, it's chopped — almost shredded — and seasoned.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While half-heartedly watching Napier against Miami, Stricklin accidentally knocked one of Marino’s letters out of place.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Guido has been a magnet for controversy; a decade earlier he had been knocked to the ground when the Pirates’ first baseman Randall Simon took a swing at him with his bat from the visitor’s dugout, causing both the Italian sausage and hot dog to fall.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Curried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curried. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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