Meaning of tomato sauce-y | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“Of all the like salsas I tried, this seemed the most authentic and balanced of its kind. In its stunning wake, others were too chunky, too artificially smoky, too tomato sauce-y.”

“Anywho, recently for some peculiar reason, I've suffered a yen to make meatballs, and no tomato sauce-y stuff!”

“White Pizza with Spinach and Garlic / Makes one 12-inch pizza / No red tomato sauce-y pizza—change is good, you know?”

“I ordered a hot and spicy burrito ($6.25), a manageable flour tortilla filled with poached chicken, ground beef, beans and rice and topped with chunks of beef tips, a tomato sauce-y deep red ranchero sauce and cheese.”

“Tomato sauce-y: A couple kiss amid the flying tomatoes at the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain, on Wednesday”

“The jambalaya was too tomato sauce-y, in part because the multigrain base didn’t absorb the liquid as well as traditional white rice.”

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