How to Use fry bread in a Sentence

fry bread

noun
  • Think Sonoran hot dogs, fry bread and tamales.
    — Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The gym smelled of turkey, fry bread, spaghetti and meatballs.
    — Abe Streep, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • There will be food ranging from Indian fry bread to tacos.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Corinne serves food all day (the Navajo fry bread is a must) plus a full menu of cocktails.
    — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Beans and red chile beef top crispy-chewy fry bread for the massive Indian taco.
    — Jackie Tran, Bon Appétit, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Okra is serves sans fried breading, paired instead with feta cheese, cumin and almonds.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 23 May 2018
  • The event features foods like fry bread, a salmon bake and information booths about the salmon runs.
    — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Their high spirits may be due to the little bits of fry bread tossed their way by frolicking children.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Fairgoers won’t be deprived of chances to see fry bread makers in action.
    — Felicia Fonseca, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • New ingredients include flour and sugar; both of which are used in the making of fry bread.
    — Rebecca Thomas, Bon Appétit, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Bring cash for Native American food and goods, such as fry bread and handmade crafts.
    — Sara Cagle, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Food vendors will sell tamales, dumplings, barbecue, fry bread, tacos, Somalian food and more.
    — Steve Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Moose soup, salmon dishes and fry bread will be on the menu at the Big Dipper Ice Arena.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Dip the bread slice into the egg mixture to coat well, then transfer to the hot skillet; fry bread for 1 minute per side until lightly browned.
    — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
  • The lightest option on our list, these rolling pins are perfect for delicate corn tortillas, Asian dumplings, or even fry bread.
    — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The Russian Orthodox church holds a fish pie and fry bread sale, while the Lutheran church hosts a pie sale.
    — Visit Sitka, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The restaurant will have some sandwich options using either fry bread or Navajo tortillas.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2021
  • The government instead left them with flour, sugar, salt and lard, ingredients that would later be used to create fry bread.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The simple deliciousness of fry bread is far more satisfying than any trendy pastry hybrid.
    — azcentral, 15 May 2015
  • To prevent starvation, the military supplied people with sugar, salt, lard, and sacks of white flour—the makings of fry bread.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • There will also be fry bread and Indian tacos plus Native American arts and crafts.
    — Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Guests can also munch on fry bread and an assortment of vegan dishes from local Native food vendors.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Golden, crisp rounds of fry bread are a taste of home for many in the Navajo Nation, as well as a reminder of a tragic history.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • Participating vendors will be selling artworks and crafts, as well as Indian tacos and fry bread.
    — Eric Zarate, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • For dessert, Hope offers classic fry bread topped with honey and powdered sugar, Nutella and banana fry bread and s'more's fry bread.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Meals here proceed from a tête de moine tart to a spicy seafood stew with fry bread, or from cantaloupe-coconut gazpacho to chicken fra diavolo to sweet-potato churros.
    — Brett Anderson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • On a recent afternoon, Jackson Mitchell stood outside his mother-in-law's fry bread stand, a pop-up camper placed near the center of town.
    — Kurtis Lee, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Pueblo breads are at the heart of most of the items on the menu, like the Black Sheep Burger on a nanniskadii bun or Navajo tacos on fry bread.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2020
  • This restaurant serves food based on traditional Hualapai Tribe recipes, such as fry bread tacos and Hualapai pinion stew.
    — Michael Salerno, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • There’s a growing tension in Native cooking between food traditions that pre-date colonization and foods born from it—like fry bread.
    — Rebecca Nagle, Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2023

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