How to Use pupusa in a Sentence

pupusa

noun
  • The food court sells tacos, pupusas, breakfast burritos and more.
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Pickup trucks roll along its unpaved streets night and day, while announcing over a megaphone that corn cakes, fresh fruit, or pupusas are for sale.
    — Flora Tsapovsky, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The open trunk of her black Toyota sedan was lined with coolers holding homemade tamales and pupusas, along with salsas and pickled vegetables.
    — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The boys, aged 4 and 5 at the time, joined their mom in hiking volcanoes, making pupusas, and getting up close with parrots, snakes, and monkeys.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Lucky for me Pupusa Central filled that void and brought comfort to me in the form of generous portions, thick pupusas and delicious plantains.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado january 2, Sacbee.com, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In an effort to prevent birth defects, California now requires food makers to add folic acid to corn masa flour used to make tortillas and other foods like tamales and pupusas.
    — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The alphabet book uses Salvadoran terms for each letter, such as cipotes, or kids, and loroco, an edible flower used as an ingredient for pupusas.
    — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The menu includes tacos, tortas, carnitas, barbacoa, chicharrón, quesadillas, burritos, tamales, pupusas, menudo and guiso del dia, or stew of the day — all made with fresh ingredients and meats.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That mix of influences produces fascinating, delicious results like beef pupusas electrified with calamansi, tortas layered with crispy lechon and crunchy yuca with creamy black beans.
    — Associate Restaurant Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Set in a spacious parking lot near the Fashion District, this weekend gathering features a variety of vendors serving up favorites like birria tacos, pupusas, quesadillas, and churros.
    — Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 30 July 2025
  • Savor Salvadoran Fare Meantime, Gloria’s Pupuseria serves up mouthwatering Salvadoran-style food, including several varieties of pupusas, pasteles, and tamales filled with chicken and potatoes.
    — Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 13 May 2026

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