slice - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • toast: Cereal and milk, two slices of toast and fruit juice is provided for 30p.
  • bread: Cut the slices of white bread into small even cubes.
  • pie: Rock still has the biggest slice of the record sales pie - up slightly to 25 % of the total.
  • ham: Place a slice of ham and a finger of Gruyère cheese on each escalope and carefully roll up each bundle into a neat curl.
  • cake: By the time Nicky arrived at the top the spokes in her front wheel had provided us with more slices of cake!
  • lemon: Drinking some water with a slice of lemon in it can help to cool you down.

Object

  • bread: Slice the bread into 3 cm pieces, cutting large slices in half.
  • clove: You slice the cloves into 1/8 " slices first, it's a bit fiddly, and put them in a single layer.

Adjective modifier

  • thin: Cut a thin slice from the top of the onion.
  • hippocampal: Chronic epileptic foci in vitro in hippocampal slices from rats with the tetanus toxin epileptic syndrome.
  • thick: The cucumber is also good, with several thick slices.
  • lemon: Use 12 - 14 quarters of lemon slices dependant upon size of squares to be cut once baked.

Modifies a noun

  • thickness: Figure 7: Scaling error vs different slice thicknesses.

Noun used with modifier

  • pineapple: Cut each pineapple slice into quarters and cut the bananas into thick slices on the diagonal.
  • avocado: Lay avocado slices on bread, topped with slices of chargrilled chicken.
  • pizza: It led to a life sentence in the US for a pizza slice theft.

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