How do you use Pottage in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like stew or soup, plus the exact meaning.
Pottage in a sentence
Pottage meaning
- A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
- An oatmeal porridge.
- A dish made by stewing plantain, beans, or yam in a tomato- and pepper-based sauce.
Using Pottage
- The main meaning on this page is: A thick soup or stew, made by boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat or fish, a staple food throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. | An oatmeal porridge. | A dish made by stewing plantain, beans, or yam in a tomato- and pepper-based sauce.
- Useful related words include: stew, potage, soup.
Context around Pottage
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pottage
- In this selection, "pottage" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stone, kate, mike, met and esau stand out and add context to how "pottage" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include for red pottage esau still and in stone pottage is optimistic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pottage" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pottage
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
While nothing is set in stone, Pottage is optimistic about his chance to compete. (14 words)
Ms Pottage met Stacey when he was aged 25 outside a Sainsbury's in December 2014. (16 words)
Kate Pottage, 49, and her husband Mark, 48, snapped up the artwork at La Grande Rederie d’Amiens market. (19 words)
Although Esau sold Jacob his own birthright, which was his blessing, for "red pottage", Esau still hated Jacob for receiving his blessing that their father Isaac unknowingly had given to him. (31 words)
Why we are so interested in preserving our “mess of pottage” over the infinite treasures promised us is one of the strange ironies of our fallen nature. (27 words)
Mike Pottage has been a political reporter, columnist and newspaper editor headquartered in Los Angeles and Sacramento for more than 45 years. (22 words)
Example sentences (6)
While nothing is set in stone, Pottage is optimistic about his chance to compete.
Kate Pottage, 49, and her husband Mark, 48, snapped up the artwork at La Grande Rederie d’Amiens market.
Mike Pottage has been a political reporter, columnist and newspaper editor headquartered in Los Angeles and Sacramento for more than 45 years.
Ms Pottage met Stacey when he was aged 25 outside a Sainsbury's in December 2014.
Why we are so interested in preserving our “mess of pottage” over the infinite treasures promised us is one of the strange ironies of our fallen nature.
Although Esau sold Jacob his own birthright, which was his blessing, for "red pottage", Esau still hated Jacob for receiving his blessing that their father Isaac unknowingly had given to him.