Explore Congee through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like jook or gruel. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Congee in a sentence
Congee meaning
- Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly)
- Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
- Formal permission to leave; a passport.
Using Congee
- The main meaning on this page is: Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly) | Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly): | Formal permission to leave; a passport.
- Useful related words include: jook, gruel, depart, take leave.
- In the example corpus, congee often appears in combinations such as: into congee, and congee, the congee.
Context around Congee
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Congee
- In this selection, "congee" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fish, serving, rice, queen, obviously and nian stand out and add context to how "congee" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include broths and congee rice porridge and congee is the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "congee" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with congee
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Congee is the stuff of home. (6 words)
Similar to the rice congee eaten in other parts of Asia. (11 words)
Neinstein also makes special trips up to Congee Queen for their radish patties, barbecue duck and congee (obviously). (18 words)
Put the first four ingredients for the congee and a good pinch of salt in a large saute pan on a medium-high heat, and fry for six minutes, stirring often, until soft and aromatic: you don’t want it to brown, so turn down the heat, if necessary. (49 words)
Watson, p. 15 Rice may also be made into congee (also called rice porridge, fawrclaab, okayu, Xifan, jook, or rice gruel) by adding more water than usual, so that the cooked rice is saturated with water, usually to the point that it disintegrates. (43 words)
In addition to Chinese tea, Baumeister has added nourishing foods with roots from her heritage, like bone broths and congee (rice porridge), to The Well’s menu of granola and yogurt bowls, rice bowls and other healthy bar bites. (39 words)
Example sentences (11)
Neinstein also makes special trips up to Congee Queen for their radish patties, barbecue duck and congee (obviously).
I love this idea of letting cubes of butternut squash nearly melt into congee, a simple rice porridge that goes by different names across cuisines.
Put the first four ingredients for the congee and a good pinch of salt in a large saute pan on a medium-high heat, and fry for six minutes, stirring often, until soft and aromatic: you don’t want it to brown, so turn down the heat, if necessary.
In addition, Alchemy will serve a number of Chinese New Year treats, including fish congee, nian gao (rice cake), dumplings and herbal wine.
In addition to Chinese tea, Baumeister has added nourishing foods with roots from her heritage, like bone broths and congee (rice porridge), to The Well’s menu of granola and yogurt bowls, rice bowls and other healthy bar bites.
Congee is the stuff of home.
Chaozhou cuisine is also known for serving congee (Zh; or mue), in addition to steamed rice or noodles with meals.
In Sri Lanka it is known as sawu or sau ( Sinhalese : සව්) and is used to prepare a congee named sawu kenda (Sinhalese: සව් කැඳ).
It is also cooked down into a congee (juk), or gruel (mieum) and mixed with other grains, meat, or seafood.
Similar to the rice congee eaten in other parts of Asia.
Watson, p. 15 Rice may also be made into congee (also called rice porridge, fawrclaab, okayu, Xifan, jook, or rice gruel) by adding more water than usual, so that the cooked rice is saturated with water, usually to the point that it disintegrates.
Common combinations with congee
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: