Meaning of tomato-saucy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. With tomato sauce.
2. Resembling or characteristic of tomato sauce.

Examples

“Up rises that sweet and tantalizing fragrance—the hot, spicy aroma of Heinz baked beans—slowly browned in heat flooded ovens. Flavor baked into them—flavor baked through and through them—from tender, golden skin to juicy, tomato-saucy center.”

“Our Franks in Blankets—an outdoor treat loaded with small-fry appeal—owe their unusual zest to pickle-sweet, tomato-saucy Heinz Hamburger Relish . . .”

“Cheese-filled battered eggplant rolls with a tomato-saucy flair.”

“Max: I ordered a triple decker sandwich of cold cuts, not this tomato-saucy concoction!”

“LeMat grinned: a rather disgusting cheesy-and-tomato-saucy sight.”

“I’ve already braved a completely (thankfully) unconvincing Jack the Ripper scene in Madame T’s Chamber of Horrors – with Mitre Square and Catherine Eddowes’ tomato-saucy body shifted half a mile to right outside the Ten Bells pub – and it would never do to get my historical facts too confused with fiction.”

“She grinned as Linda slapped an arm around my shoulders and a tomato-saucy chip into my mouth.”

““Beans and weenies.” Melba Jane’s lips curled as if she were retasting both. “That’s all we got, lunch and supper, and scant little of it for nigh onto two years.” / With the emphasis on beans, Ramey assumed, and not the yummy, tomato-saucy kind she’d spooned straight from the can on family camping trips.”

“Oregano is a natural with fava beans, eggplant, tomatoes, and most all tomato-saucy Italian dishes—such as pastas with marinara sauce, pizzas, calzones, Italian hoagies, sausage sandwiches—and with Greek dishes such as souvlaki.”

“The cafeteria’s offering today was stuffed tomatoes, supposedly filled with some weird vegetarian tomato-saucy rice mix, but when Sol poked through the stuffing, he uncovered suspicious-looking brown-grey lumps in it that he thought might be sausage.”

“This filling dish features tomato-saucy pasta with lots of lemony ground lamb for a Greek flair.”

““Thanks for getting this,” I said around a hot mouthful of extra tomato-saucy heaven.”

“Two pizzas had just been delivered to the dorm, and we were piled into Annette and Becca’s room, buzzing around the cheesy, crusty, tomato-saucy pies like starved flies.”

“I grew up in New Orleans and a sloppy joe to me was a tomato-saucy ground meat thing that you put into a bun.”

“'So I'm thinking, maybe something to do with pasta, because pasta is cheap, pasta's easy and I think, who doesn't like pasta, really?' she [Brooke Smith] says. / 'I'm thinking about a sauce, not sure quite sure what sauce, people like bolognese, but that involves mince, and I bet meat is quite expensive. Maybe they'll just have a tomato-saucy pasta, that'd be nice.'”

“Here’s tomato-saucy flavor kids can’t resist!”

“Mrs. Vanucci even kissed me and hugged me close to her ample, warm, tomato-saucy bosom.”

“The smell of dead fish, rotting meat, and Italian spices washed over me. […] The fishy, tomato-saucy reek of the bears hung in the air like bad breath in an elevator.”

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