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gruel

[ US /ˈɡɹuɪɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈuːəl/ ]
NOUN
  1. a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)

How To Use gruel In A Sentence

  • The patient drank a good deal of water during the whole of the treatment, ate very little and only light food, principally water-soup or panada, and gruel, and kept in bed almost entirely the first ten or twelve days. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms
  • What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress? The Sun
  • This could take up to an hour and must be completed by the end of a gruelling nine-hour shift.
  • He had complained of exhaustion after his gruelling schedule over the past week.
  • It's probably the most gruelling race in sport. Times, Sunday Times
  • This gruelling sporting discipline came along by chance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both?
  • Wouldn't it be great, then, if there were somewhere handier, without that gruelling extra flight? Times, Sunday Times
  • For quick input, the stylus isn't terrible, but writing long e-mails or even inputting several contacts can be grueling.
  • During the day he endured strict discipline and gruelling fitness programmes. The Sun
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