eggs 1 of 2

plural of egg

eggs

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of egg

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for eggs
Noun
  • Something will have to give between two men so seemingly unalike.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The nonprofit ended up purchasing a two-bedroom home in San Diego’s El Cerrito neighborhood, and two men moved in Tuesday.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Beneath southeast Iceland, a column of molten rock—known as a hot spot—spurs even more eruptions.
    Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
  • That spurs the humpbacks to lunge into the air to collect the small fish, creating the iconic imagery.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But Giannis, that’s where the discussion about you guys is so interesting.
    Sam Amick, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Most of the guys that are on the bubble have lived with this build-up over the course of six weeks.
    Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Expected to take a backseat to Detroit and Green Bay in a transition year, Minnesota is in the thick of things with a 13-2 record.
    Theo Gremminger, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
  • But subtle little things — developments unlikely to make headlines – can also be big winners.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Some scientists have even proposed that free radicals can lead to aging in humans and other creatures, though that idea is disputed.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Another research team at MIT used the gills of these creatures, which filter for plankton, to improve commercial water filtration systems.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The men’s team has already qualified for the World Cup in 2026, meaning a third appearance at a men’s World Cup for a nation of just over five million people.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • These new episodes, though, bear fruit, in the form of progress, and forward momentum, and the impossible optimism of people changing for the better.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Oyster reefs also create communities for other types of fish that can be caught and sold as food.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • As an American neorealist, drawn to depict historic spiritual struggle, Burnett just can’t lie, which makes The Annihilation of Fish an awkward presentation of the discordant elements in Hollywood race ideology.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
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“Eggs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eggs. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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