How to Use pea soup in a Sentence

pea soup

noun
  • Despite its name, spring-fed Clear Lake is as murky as pea soup.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • For the rest of the trip the river had the color and opacity of pea soup.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The first course arrived — spring pea soup — and everyone got the memo to let the queen taste hers first.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Cyanobacteria looks almost like pea soup, and floats on top of the water.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2021
  • Movie-goers learned from this movie that Linda Blair was fed way too much pea soup.
    — Mike Oliver | [email protected], al, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Split pea soup doesn’t always have the most thrilling reputation.
    — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Quite possibly the best part is that this pea soup tastes even better the next day, when the flavors have had a chance to marry.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Earth, with its gravity and its pea soup atmosphere and its crowded orbit.
    — Tade Thompson, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Monte Cristo sandwich with ham and Swiss cheese, black eyed pea soup and Caesar salad.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Dishes include pea soup, roast beef with sherry sauce and Yorkshire pudding and, for dessert, warm mince pies.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Infused with smoky bacon flavor and fresh thyme, this earthy pea soup is a foolproof way to cure the impending winter blues.
    — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And the varieties are endless–from tortilla soup to pea soup to bean soup, there’s something for everyone!
    — Natalie Rizzo, Women's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Original Game Boy games default to the pea soup-green tones of the original screen.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The lake water then mostly stagnated into a goo the consistency of pea soup in some areas.
    — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Ahmed's hair is as silvered as Moroccan sardines, his green eyes drizzled with amber like the olive oil in bissara pea soup.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Dishes range from the traditional fondue and croziflette to pea soup with mint and duckling fillet.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • And many of the recipes that were created during that transition, including the pea soup, continue to be staples on the menu.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Light waves of this type can’t get through the hydrogen fog, so any stars or galaxies sitting in that early pea soup remain invisible.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The blooms can look like pea soup, grass clippings or green latex paint and are typically suspended in the water and can appear as floating mats.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • Headlines on trade these days are like leftover pea soup—sometimes hot, sometimes chilly, always unsatisfying.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 21 May 2018
  • Highlights included a fresh, light pea soup; a buttery carrot risotto; tender filets of ostrich, lamb and venison; and a zesty lemon posset.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • At that point, the clouds are squeezed down and are in contact with the land’s surface, forming the kind of beach fog that can seem as thick as pea soup, but leaving sunny skies just a few miles inland.
    — Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • Visual appearances of an algal bloom, which look like spilt paint or split-pea soup on the water surface, cannot indicate the bloom's toxicity.
    — Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2022
  • Breakfast favorites, pea soup, gouda-tomato-basil bisque, salads, lamb, sirloin, bread, chicken bruschetta, salmon, candy and sweets.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • But on the west side, closer to many sources of pollution, residents can get stuck in a thicker pea soup of car exhaust, refinery emissions and other pollutants.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The combination of warm water and nutrients created prime conditions for algae to bloom, turning the water pea soup green.
    — Eric Palkovacs, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • Their innovative but faithful takes on the classic supper-club repertoire beg one to ask, what’s not to like about pea soup (poured tableside into a cloud of Cheddar mousse)?
    — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Harvey House is known for its innovative takes on supper club classics such as pea soup and Lake Superior walleye.
    — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • There was only Alabama in 2020, and teams everyone knew Alabama was going to smash into split-pea soup.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 11 June 2021
  • Along with crafts and other vendors, there are baked goodies, Shrimp Skagen sandwiches, pea soup, waffles and meatballs on Saturday.
    — Madeline McKenzie, The Seattle Times, 31 Oct. 2018

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