How to Use brown bread in a Sentence

brown bread

noun
  • Serve hot with crusty bread, corn bread, or, even better, brown bread.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026
  • Serve with plenty of brown bread to mop up all that luscious sauce.
    — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Toasters use radiant heat to brown bread, muffins and bagels.
    — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Some ate brown bread, milk-toast, and graham crackers to fill their bellies.
    — Howard Markel, Smithsonian, 28 July 2017
  • But as soon as the last juices have been sopped up (preferably with brown bread or soda bread), our minds turn to sweets.
    — Samantha MacAvoy, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Terrazzo slabs of terrine with good brown bread and a hillock of cornichons.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Baked beans, ham, and brown bread are an ideal Saturday night supper.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The Scottish salmon sandwich contains salmon, lemon butter and brown bread.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The naval brown bread that is served at the start of the meal is a beloved part of the Jack Dusty experience.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The menu includes Irish favorites, from fish and chips and lamb shoulder braised in Irish stout to treacle brown bread.
    — Wendy O’Dea, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The main entrée is corned lamb and ferment cabbage with mustard gravy followed by whiskey pudding and brown bread cookie for dessert.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Why do people go crazy for The Cheesecake Factory's sweet brown bread?
    — Spoon U, Teen Vogue, 9 Dec. 2017
  • The crusty brown bread that accompanies the meat, seasoned with coriander seed and dotted with circles of fat, is its equal.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Eventually de Mayerne found that stale brown bread could clean them—a technique still used by restorers.
    — Anthony Grafton, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
  • With the bells dying out in the background, Agnes resumes bustling about her kitchen, filling up the teapot and buttering slices of brown bread.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Smoked Arctic char from neighboring Labrador came next, layered on thick slices of brown bread and sprinkled with citrusy larch shoots.
    — Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • My mother was also a believer in health food, which at that time meant a lot of sandwiches on dry Pepperidge Farm brown bread.
    — Alice Waters, WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • To Bem’s surprise, both groups increased their consumption of brown bread, and by a similar amount, the following week.
    — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2012
  • Bakers gonna bake Swift brought the talk show host a couple loaves of her famous sourdough wrapped in a brown bread paper with a clear front to see the golden artistry.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • For their late lunch, Lauper ordered a potassium-rich borscht soup and traditional brown bread and butter caviar for the table.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Wide ceramic troughs of homemade country pork pâté and rough, aspic-jiggly headcheese, wheels of crusty brown bread, fat links of saucisson sec, more oysters.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2019
  • To me, that world was all about stale, dry brown bread and an indiscriminate way of eating cross-legged on couches or on the ground with none of the formality of the table.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Poorer people, meanwhile, ate thick stews made out of staples like cabbage and leeks, small portions of meat, brown bread, and vegetables and fruits readily grown in gardens.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Dinner was rustic local food, served family style in stone bowls—a bean and potato soup, ratatouille with homemade pork sausage, stacks of rugged brown bread, and wedges of floral Tomme de Savoie.
    — Stephanie Danler, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Workers at the big Crosse & Blackwell plant on Eastern Avenue turned out everything from cream of celery soup to cans of brown bread and mango chutney.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The meal, which could be made in advance in bean pots and kept warm in brick ovens, allowed the new arrivals to observe the Sabbath by not working and soon became a Sunday staple, served with brown bread.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026
  • The brown bread Ireland is referencing is the slightly-sweet loaf of soft wheat bread that comes warm with a side of butter before every meal at the Cheesecake Factory.
    — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2019

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