How to Use Bolognese in a Sentence

Bolognese

adjective
  • Add red curry paste to this creamy Bolognese sauce for nuance and depth.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2025-02-06
  • This week is kangaroo mince Bolognese with a tonnnneee of basil.
    — Refinery29 Australia Team, refinery29.com, 2024-01-22
  • The Bolognese sauce that is lightly tossed with spinach tagliatelle doesn’t have much punch.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-08-15
  • Top with your favorite Bolognese or marinara sauce and grated parmesan cheese.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 2024-11-14
  • Anything [like] ‘Bolognese’ — that could turn off a lot of Americans.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 2024-07-30
  • The pasta course was a regional classic: tagliatelle with ragù, the purest version of what the rest of us call Bolognese sauce.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 2025-02-19
  • Italian dishes - homemade gnocchi and Bolognese sauce - abound.
    — Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 2024-01-30
  • Chicken liver, steak or even Bolognese sauce and pasta are some of the ingredients that come tucked into pitas.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 2023-08-29
  • Its meatless Bolognese topping, made from seitan and minced vegetables, is good and deserves a firmer mattress.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2024-03-08
  • One Facebook reviewer claims the Bolognese sauce is as good as his Sicilian grandmother’s.
    — Shannon Greene, Charlotte Observer, 2024-06-17
  • February’s supper is Lasagna Bolognese with focaccia garlic bread.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2025-02-13
  • The uncommon mashup results in dishes such as Bolognese arancini balls and roasted eggplant ravioli, as well as gnocchi cheese alfredo.
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 2023-03-31
  • Tortellini en brodo—in both—is a Bolognese standard dish that can be found, as one option, at Trattoria La Montanara.
    — Kelsy Chauvin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2023-11-28
  • Traditional eggplant Parmesan, lasagna with Bolognese sauce, and the restaurant's famous spaghetti and meatballs are favorites.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 2024-03-19
  • The first entrée, prepared by Wright, was her take on Bolognese and featured ravioli stuffed with ricotta cheese and topped with parmesan and a citrus zest to capture summer flavors.
    — Brande Victorian, Essence, 2023-09-19
  • The lasagna sandwiches four types of cheese (ricotta, Parmesan, Romano and mozzarella) and a Bolognese sauce between pasta sheets.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2023-08-25
  • This delicious Bolognese sauce serves 12 generously or 16 with smaller portions.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2023-10-11
  • As the trailer demonstrates, Bracco's bold, outspoken Roberta is a proud Sicilian with no love for her Bolognese counterparts.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 2025-05-09
  • Selden’s handmade pastas range from a light agnolotti in a slippery broth of brown butter and filled with creamy sweet potatoes to a hearty tagliatelle Bolognese to a comforting cacio e pepe made with chewy bucatini noodles.
    — Detroit Free Press, 2024-02-15
  • For more significant fuel, the pool-adjacent Olivine restaurant has deeply satisfying wagyu Bolognese atop rigatoni for dinner and also opens for lunch and afternoon snacks.
    — Andy Wang, Forbes.com, 2025-05-13
  • Rife has often spoken about the conundrum of being a good looking comic—in his first special, on the Today show, and last week over a plate of spaghetti Bolognese in Lower Manhattan with me.
    — Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 2023-11-15
  • The pre-trial hearing heard that Simon had first accused his former partner, whom he still isn't divorced from despite them separating in 2015, of trying to poison him with a Tupperware container of Bolognese penne pasta, the BBC noted.
    — Becca Longmire, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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