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Meaning potato meaning
What does potato mean?
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Topics potato topics
What do people use potato to talk about?
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Examples potato examples
How do I use potato in a sentence?
Simple sentences
I like potato salad.
We ate potato soup.
The potato belongs to someone else.
I like cold potato salad in the summertime.
I would like steak with a baked potato.
Joan dropped her husband like a hot potato.
When was the potato introduced in Japan?
There isn't much nutrition in potato chips.
If I were to make a potato tortilla, I would buy two dozen eggs.
The potato was so hot that it burned my mouth.
The potato ricer, similar to the garlic press, is essential to making lefse.
I shouldn't have eaten the whole bag of potato chips.
Tom is boiling the potatoes to make potato salad.
On the plate was a piece of chicken, a potato and some green peas.
I'd rather peel potatoes with a potato peeler than with an ordinary knife.
Frederick the Great introduced the potato to Prussia.
A couch potato is something that I don't want to be.
Potato chips are not good for you.
Please put the potato chips in the bowl. Don't eat them directly from the bag.
Tom ate half a bag of potato chips.
They are standing there and eating potato chips.
She likes potato salad.
When the sweet potato was introduced to New Guinea, the population exploded.
Don't be a couch potato.
Don't be such a couch potato.
There are many varieties of potato dumplings in Bavaria.
Movie subtitles
You laugh, but who likes a dusty potato?
I-I can't eat a dusty potato.
I'm making potato cakes.
Ma'am, what about potato cakes for lunch tomorrow?
At least one potato cake!
A hot potato in my mouth.
A hot potato does the trick.
Have a potato.
I should love a potato.
Potato?
You'd feel that you had a hot potato in your hand, and you'd want to drop it.
Well, yes, we're having a baked Virginia ham, black-eyed peas, hot biscuits, homemade apple butter and sweet-potato pie.
Potato nose, cauliflower ears, pigeon toes. - Is that Charles Boyer?
Potato salad, cucumber salad, turkey, deviled egg, Swedish meatball, celery.
La Chesnaye, foreigner or not, complained the other day about a potato salad.
The potato man!
Your baked potato's waiting.
How about a hot sweet potato?
Oh, sweet potato.
Did you get the potato salad?
You think you're such a hot potato as a Claims Manager. such a wolf on a phony claim.
Maybe you won't, but you step out of line once. me and the gang will drop you like you were a hot potato.
If it doesn't turn out that way. if you think I'm trying to slip something over on you. like Tony says, you can drop me like a hot potato.
I told her to bury a potato in the backyard.
If you don't, I'm gonna drop you like you was a hot potato.
If it wasn't for your money, I'd have dropped you like a hot potato.
Long, slender and artistic, and a diamond ring the size of a small potato on the right little finger.
How'd you like a flock of weenies, a set of potato salad, a slab of chocolate cake, and a couple of bottles of very elegant beer for your dinner?
Church Social! This here's chock full of potato salad, and a great, big chocolate cake, and pickles.
La Chesnaye, yid as he may be, chewed me out recently over a potato salad.
The potato man! I have to go.
Potato salad.
Oh! Potato.
News and current affairs
The German Constitutional Court believes that the OMT scheme exceeds the ECB's mandate, though it has temporarily tossed that political hot potato to the European Court of Justice.
One in which a simple potato is turned into gold.
But this case is not about oligarchs trying to interfere in politics; it is about a group of artists and curators whose professional activities have unexpectedly turned into a political hot potato.
In fact, the dubious notion that we should select economic activities based on their presumed technical innovativeness has been carried even further, in support of the argument that we should favor semiconductor chips over potato chips.
I have argued, on the other hand, that you could produce semiconductor chips, trade them for potato chips, and then munch them while watching TV and becoming a moron.
On the other hand, you could produce potato chips, trade them for semiconductor chips that you put into your PC, and become a computer wizard!
But, in the 1840's, mass immigration, fueled by the Irish potato famine, altered the state's demographic balance, enabling populists to gain control of the legislature.
Marx emphasized the critical role of the means of production. I have argued, on the other hand, that you could produce semiconductor chips, trade them for potato chips, and then munch them while watching TV and becoming a moron.
It turned out that semiconductors were being fitted onto circuit boards in a mindless, primitive fashion, whereas potato chips were being produced through a highly automated process (which is how Pringles chips rest on each other perfectly).
That is perhaps an easy point to recognize for this author, the Catholic grandson of Irish potato famine emigrants who, nevertheless, became a British minister and Britain's last colonial governor.