How to Use ambrosia in a Sentence

ambrosia

noun
  • There’s even ambrosia for dessert.
    — Associate Restaurant Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 2024
  • This isn't your Mama's ambrosia salad!
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 17 June 2026
  • The menu features bratwurst with sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, pickled beets and ambrosia.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Walking through the West Village on a sunny spring day is pure ambrosia.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
  • For some people, the trendy-in-2014 brunch staple is ambrosia, the food of the gods.
    — Maura Judkis, charlotteobserver, 16 May 2017
  • For example, my sister recalled the ambrosia of our youth being soft and juicy, not in perfect sections.
    — Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Toasted coconut chips add a layer of crunch and tropical flair to colorful ambrosia.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Saté Kampar is one, transporting on the ambrosia of Malaysian skewered meats sizzling over coals.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Items like ambrosia, bombe Alaska, pavlova, and banana split sundaes have made a bold return with a contemporary spin.
    — Amy Louise Bailey, Vogue, 25 July 2018
  • The spread of the redbay ambrosia beetle could have a major economic impact on the avocado industry.
    — Willie James Inman, Fox News, 13 July 2017
  • Currently, an $1,800 ambrosia box elder coffee table sits in the lobby.
    — Anne Kniggendorf, kansascity.com, 15 May 2017
  • Having some of the oranges spooned out and some sectioned made a texturally and visually interesting ambrosia.
    — Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
  • As a twist on a traditional ambrosia salad, this colorful punch brings in all the same flavors with orange juice, pineapple juice, coconut water, and maraschino cherries, plus more citrus and mint to garnish.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Gillanders frequently pushes the right buttons, as with a quartet of black truffle croquettes encasing a matrix of gooey aged white cheddar and jalapeño and releasing a fungal ambrosia that rises to your nostrils.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The beetle pushing out these toothpicks is called the granulate ambrosia beetle (or the Asian ambrosia beetle), Xylosandrus crassiusculus.
    — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Her preparations include cleansing and perfuming herself with divinely fragrant ambrosia as well as borrowing a magical, lust-inducing belt from Aphrodite.
    — Britta Ager, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2021
  • And when the citizens of Thebes asked Hercules to prove his strength by helping with affordable housing, the 1,800 or so citizens at the Delacorte lapped it up like ambrosia.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Culprit’s boysenberry marshmallow ambrosia is one to try, as is Orphan’s Kitchen’s avocado bombe Alaska, served with lime and Kahikatea peppercorn, (a native pine).
    — Amy Louise Bailey, Vogue, 25 July 2018
  • Everyone seems to be working effectively except for Oscar, who makes a gigantic deep pan of bread pudding but doesn’t get it into the oven until about an hour is left, and Justin, who grabbed ambrosia salad seemingly on a whim and doesn’t have a real vision for how to update it.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026

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