How to Use mushroom in a Sentence

mushroom

1 of 2 noun
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  • Spread the mushroom mixture over this, evenly, to the edges of the ham.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2024
  • First, the singer and actor sets the mood with an adorable mushroom candle.
    — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • This meal was a slab of medium-well pork with a side of more pork, and mushrooms.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • Chefs pulled fish and mushroom jeon straight from the pan to pair with a tasting of soy sauces, one of which was 128 years old.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This one is made with a mushroom blend, topped with provolone cheese, and it is served on an amoroso roll.
    — Eduardo Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • One summer night 20-plus years ago, a friend and I ate a goodly amount of mushrooms.
    — WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • Fold eggs into rice along with mushrooms, kale, and sesame oil.
    — Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2023
  • Don’t have potatoes, turnips, Brussels sprouts, or mushrooms in the house?
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This leads me to the Mammoth, which is stuffed with steak, bacon, mushrooms, green peppers and onions.
    — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
  • The crimson Clathrus archeri mushroom might give you nightmares.
    — Raisa Bruner, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2023
  • For the icing on the woodland cake, Fritz distributes spores of mushrooms, lichen and moss on stumps and logs.
    — Monica Cardoza, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • What is the mushroom leather of plastics that might get us to a better place sustainably?
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
  • On Monday night, the rapper, 35, threw out the first pitch at the Pittsburgh Pirates game while high on mushrooms.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2023
  • The other is loaded with pork, shrimp, peas, carrots and mushrooms.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The panel is made of mushroom, hemp and kenaf fibers, not mushroom fiber and coconut shells.
    — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • On the other end of the spectrum are rubbery, gray mushrooms that are less than ideal to consume.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024
  • To give you an idea, the patty melt is made with a burger that’s 100 percent mushrooms, passed through a meat grinder to mimic ground beef.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 19 Apr. 2023
  • This spring pasta dish is loaded with in-season sweet peas, mushrooms, and fresh chives.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Feb. 2024
  • On one of these, the mushroom theme arose again: The seat was painted to look like a Fly agaric, red with irregular white dots.
    — Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The dishes and cocktails were all so fresh and tasty, but two things stuck out to me: the kinoko nigiri (mushroom!) and the dirty dashi martini.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
  • My bibimbap comes with a fried egg, tofu, carrots, bean sprouts, spinach, mushrooms, radishes, and sauce on the side.
    — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene, have a seat, here’s some mushrooms.
    — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Foie gras appears in both a rice dish with gold queen rice and mushrooms and a noodle dish with anchovy and seaweed.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
  • Standouts include a Cubano with lentil ham and pulled lion mane mushroom, and a gyro wrap with sliced lentil.
    — Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
  • There was a miniature tart not much larger than a bottle cap, filled with firm raw fluke, maitake mushrooms glazed with Madeira, and crunchy threads of leek.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Estela, which opened in 2013, rode to fame on plates topped with overlapping mushroom slices and endive leaves.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The chew is closer to firm tofu or a portobello mushroom, or some cross of both.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The mushrooms are grown on special blocks made mainly from upcycled waste date palms.
    — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • So for all of the like-minded mushroom lovers out there, we're rounded up 40 mushroom recipes where mushrooms really are the star.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Start your visit with a Greek Isles crepe: egg, feta cheese, spinach, sautéed mushrooms, onions and kalamata olives.
    — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
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mushroom

2 of 2 verb
  • He goes mushrooming in the spring every year.
  • Her hobby mushroomed into a thriving business.
  • Interest in local history is suddenly mushrooming.
  • From there, the tour mushroomed to 16 dates in 13 cities.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The one-man sit-in mushroomed in the weeks after the attacks.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • As the sun crept up, the crowd mushroomed to about 30 and spilled into the warehouse’s driveway.
    — Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Soon, the encampment mushroomed into one of the state’s largest.
    — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • Mold grew on bathroom ceilings but also mushroomed from behind the grout of the tiles.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • With the advance of technology, the field has mushroomed.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • Two decades later, the job loss count is up to 3.7 million, owing to the mushrooming trade deficit with China.
    — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the cost of Senate races in Arizona has mushroomed in recent years.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 21 Jan. 2024
  • As regional tensions rose over the next decade, the programme mushroomed.
    — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Read more about how Nvidia has mushroomed into one of the most popular options trades out here.
    — WSJ, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Within a few months, camps began to mushroom throughout the country, with about two hundred boys in each.
    — Hubert H. (hubert Horatio) Humphrey, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The yellow, green and orange bikes, unlocked using an app on a smartphone, have mushroomed across the city almost overnight.
    — David Swanson, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
  • The protests following her death mushroomed into the largest challenge to the theocratic regime since its founding in 1979.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The office also is expected to hire more staff to deal with mushrooming demand for records, the person said.
    — Rebecca Ballhaus, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2018
  • But threats to the 19-nation currency union are mushrooming.
    — Tom Fairless, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • Novák did not address the pardon on X. She was forced to cut short her trip to Qatar and return to Budapest to address the mushrooming scandal.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Not surprisingly, the mushrooming supply has stoked concerns of a glut in the market.
    — Isobel Lee, WSJ, 5 June 2018
  • After all, Netflix's subscriber count has continued to mushroom even though some of the most buzz-worthy shows on TV can't be found there.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 3 July 2019
  • Of course, doing so can be a bit challenging in the mushrooming industry.
    — Todd McFliker, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2023
  • Claims in both venues, from all nationalities, have seen sharp rises over the past five years, and backlogs have mushroomed.
    — David A. Martin, Vox, 2 July 2018
  • By then, the Comrades had mushroomed from a plucky little event with a few thousand participants each year into the world’s largest race longer than a marathon.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The procedures have seen a revival since passage of the 2017 tax law and as cyber and cryptocurrency frauds have mushroomed.
    — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Yet concerns of in-game espionage have mushroomed in recent years.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Take a stroll around Cathedral Square to admire the golden domes that mushroom from Orthodox cathedrals.
    — Aanchal Anand, National Geographic, 16 July 2019
  • The costs for that whole operation mushroomed and they could not be covered by the EU recovery plan funding [which was cut].
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • While in his plays, anger runs amok, mushrooming into this gigantic, hideous form.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Although the museum had pledged as recently as two years ago to spend at least $30 million on the memorial park, the cost has mushroomed since then.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024

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