Wondering how to use Egg in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as ovum or gonad.
Egg in a sentence
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Egg meaning
- An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
Synonyms of Egg
Egg vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Egg
- The main meaning on this page is: An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development. | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development. | The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
- Useful related words include: ovum, gonad, male reproductive gland, nut.
- Possible Dutch translations are: ei.
- In the example corpus, egg often appears in combinations such as: the egg, an egg, egg and.
Context around Egg
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Egg
- In this selection, "egg" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, easter, boiled, commercial, hunt, replacer and bite stand out and add context to how "egg" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a backyard egg hunt where, a boiled egg for tonight, egg hunt and easter egg. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "egg" sits close to words such as stating, picking and racist, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with egg
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Beat the egg well to prepare the egg wash. (9 words)
The owlbear egg is a surprisingly good camp supply, providing 40 camp supplies for the egg alone. (17 words)
While the egg white is mostly protein, the yolk contains most of the egg’s fat, vitamins, and minerals. (19 words)
Cast of an egg, Museum Wiesbaden Female great auks would lay only one egg each year, between late May and early June, although they could lay a replacement egg if the first one was lost. (35 words)
Mark Siemens, president of the BC Egg Producers Association and an egg farmer, said seven farms between Langley and Chilliwack have been struck this fall amid the migration of wild birds in the area. (34 words)
In Western cultures, the giving of chocolate eggs is now commonplace, with 80 million easter eggs sold in the UK alone. citation Chocolate Easter egg Chocolate Easter egg bunny Easter egg with candy. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Egg replacements further Commercial egg substitutes, such as Bob's Red Mill egg replacer and Ener-G egg replacer, are available for cooking and baking.
The egg farmers were dealt with a second surprise when Mr Abraham cracked the mutant egg on the barbecue to discover a second egg, shell and all, inside.
Their Brazilian-influenced menu takes French classics like the Complète (ham, egg and cheese) and puts it up again El Egg Ranchero (chorizo, egg, onion, tomato chutney, beans, jalapeños, guacamole and parsley).
There was a plain egg and a panorama egg in three sizes, as well as an egg with an Easter design molded into the chocolate.
Cast of an egg, Museum Wiesbaden Female great auks would lay only one egg each year, between late May and early June, although they could lay a replacement egg if the first one was lost.
In Western cultures, the giving of chocolate eggs is now commonplace, with 80 million easter eggs sold in the UK alone. citation Chocolate Easter egg Chocolate Easter egg bunny Easter egg with candy.
Beat the egg well to prepare the egg wash.
Egg trays are used for collecting eggs, while lighting systems are important for regulating the birds’ sleep cycles and promoting egg production.
Having a dog lowered the risk of egg, milk and nut allergies, while cats lowered the chances of egg, wheat and soybean allergies, new research shows.
It begins with a paragraph on cognates for “egg” in several languages, and then shows us two little boys trying to say the word “egg” to describe a round, white object.
Mark Siemens, president of the BC Egg Producers Association and an egg farmer, said seven farms between Langley and Chilliwack have been struck this fall amid the migration of wild birds in the area.
Our family gathering includes a backyard egg hunt where the youngest get first chance at finding eggs hidden by the teens, and the teens find the cleverly hidden egg with their name.
Poking a hole in the egg allows that air to escape so your eggs will never crack and also avoids the air pocket leaving a concave dent in your boiled egg.
The Houston Link to Learning held an Easter egg hunt on April 4. There were crafts and snacks available after the Easter egg hunt.
The owlbear egg is a surprisingly good camp supply, providing 40 camp supplies for the egg alone.
The scotch egg was delicious, and the caramelised onion chutney added a lot of flavour to the lightly breaded sausage and egg.
This egg bite pan has a silicone lid that can be put on the egg bite pan and put in the Instant pot and put under pressure with no problem.
When my youngest sister asks if I want a boiled egg for tonight’s salad, I point out that what she’s preparing is, in fact, a hard-boiled egg.
While the egg white is mostly protein, the yolk contains most of the egg’s fat, vitamins, and minerals.
As much as I liked the novelty of trying the ‘posh’ Easter egg, I’d have been equally as happy tucking into a £1.50 Dairy Milk Buttons egg.
Phrases with egg
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with egg
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the egg 56×
- an egg 28×
- egg and 26×
- easter egg 26×
- egg in 10×
- egg hunt 10×
- egg with 8×
- egg is 8×
- and egg 7×
- egg on 6×