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Challah is an English word with synonyms like bread. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Challah meaning

  1. A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for a yom tov.
  2. The commandment to separate a portion of bread or bread dough for the cohanim (Numbers 15:17–21); in contemporary practice, the portion is burned until inedible.
  3. The portion separated in fulfillment of the above.

Synonyms of Challah

hallah bread breadstuff staff of life

Related words

Other words often associated with Challah or its synonyms:

clams loot lettuce dough cabbage lucre kale dinero moolah lolly gelt foodstuff

Using Challah

  • The main meaning on this page is: A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for a yom tov. | The commandment to separate a portion of bread or bread dough for the cohanim (Numbers 15:17–21); in contemporary practice, the portion is burned until inedible. | The portion separated in fulfillment of the above.
  • Useful related words include: hallah, bread, breadstuff, staff of life.
  • In the example corpus, challah often appears in combinations such as: the challah, challah bake, challah is.

Context around Challah

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

baking 2× baked 2× innovative 1× potato 1× 2016 1× toasted 1× plain 1× sharing 1× pumpkin 1× simple 1×

Often after:

bake 3× bun 1× rolls 1× department 1× regularly 1× myself 1× bread 1×

Sentence patterns with Challah

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a mega challah bake for 1× a toasted challah bun 1× are simple challah rolls dolled 1× assumption that challah is the 1× bake the challah or run 1× buying a challah every friday 1× founder of challah and soul 1× fresh baked challah for his 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

attendants of the 1× blacks and jews 1× blue ribbon brasserie 1× chabad of south 1× i know it 1× i took to 1×

Common sentence endings:

17 hour days 1× and challah bake 1× and spiritual connection 1× commemorate the holiday 1× commitment to catholicism 1× for 14 years 1×

Words around Challah

Just before it in the word index:

challa 100 chalky 18 chalkwell 7 chalkville 12 chalks 10 chalkley 2

Just after it in the word index:

challan 26 challaned 3 challanhabit 2 challaning 3 challans 10 challant 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

abenaki 45 abstracted 45 addendum 45 adria 45 afn 45 agrawal 45

Corpus analysis for Challah

  • In this selection, "challah" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, baking, baked, innovative, bake, bun and rolls stand out and add context to how "challah" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a mega challah bake for and a toasted challah bun. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "challah" sits close to words such as abenaki, abstracted and addendum, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with challah

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

These are simple challah rolls dolled up to look like flowers. (11 words)

I took to buying a challah every Friday to commemorate the holiday. (12 words)

Wagman, who is Modern Orthodox, has been making homemade challah regularly for 14 years. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Yet watching the happy, confident ease with which Rachel and Sharon prepared the dough (and ran the Bosch mixer as if it was an extension of their hands) made me feel for the first time in my life that I could successfully make challah myself. (45 words)

It broke even more when I realized that Sarah’s parents, who only live a mile from them, have only seen him through a window when they have dropped off supplies, including a fresh baked challah for his first Shabbat. (40 words)

Attendants of the demonstration had the chance to taste Kanan’s innovative “challah de camote,” or sweet potato challah, a fusion recipe she created when helping to open a Jewish deli in Mexico City. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

Attendants of the demonstration had the chance to taste Kanan’s innovative “challah de camote,” or sweet potato challah, a fusion recipe she created when helping to open a Jewish deli in Mexico City.

Students baking challah at the 2016 Challah for Hunger leadership summit at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

The Challah Bake will open with a video message by Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein, the Chief Rabbi of South Africa, and a montage about the history of the Shabbos Project and Challah Bake.

Blacks and Jews have way more in common than we have differences,” Shonda Isom Walkovitz, co-founder of Challah and Soul, told the Journal.

Blue Ribbon Brasserie’s “oxburger”: an eight-ounce chuck-brisket blend with a fried egg and oxtail marmalade, served on a toasted challah bun.

I’d made plain challah before — a white enriched bread that tastes similar to brioche — but I’d never tried adding mix-ins before.

Sharing challah and wine as part of the service is a cherished tradition in Jewish culture, symbolizing unity and spiritual connection.

Thanksgivukkah allowed foodies to push boundaries and combine traditional Hanukkah and Thanksgiving flavors — think pumpkin challah and sweet potato latkes.

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The habit became a tradition to the extent that we can count with our fingers the number of Shabbat dinners where we have not had a home-baked challah.

These are simple challah rolls dolled up to look like flowers.

Chabad of South Orlando is hosting a Mega Challah Bake for the safety of families and soldiers in Israel and the return of the hostages.

I have always taken issue with the assumption that challah is the definitive Shabbat bread for all Jewry.

In the challah department, to emphasize their “conversion” to Christianity, some Jews intentionally incorporated lard and pork fat into the bread, signifying their break from secret Judaism and their commitment to Catholicism.

Wagman, who is Modern Orthodox, has been making homemade challah regularly for 14 years.

Yet watching the happy, confident ease with which Rachel and Sharon prepared the dough (and ran the Bosch mixer as if it was an extension of their hands) made me feel for the first time in my life that I could successfully make challah myself.

I know it sounds insane to start baking challah while the world is shutting down.

It broke even more when I realized that Sarah’s parents, who only live a mile from them, have only seen him through a window when they have dropped off supplies, including a fresh baked challah for his first Shabbat.

I took to buying a challah every Friday to commemorate the holiday.

Last week, Maura Koenig made 83 loaves of challah bread in the span of two 17-hour days.

Men don’t light the Shabbos candles, bake the challah, or run the home.

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Common combinations with challah

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "challah" in a sentence?
An example: "Attendants of the demonstration had the chance to taste Kanan’s innovative “challah de camote,” or sweet potato challah, a fusion recipe she created when helping to open a Jewish deli in Mexico City." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "challah" from authentic English texts.
What does "challah" mean?
Challah means: A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for a yom tov.
What are synonyms of "challah"?
Common synonyms of "challah" include: hallah, bread, breadstuff, staff of life.
How many example sentences with "challah" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "challah", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.