morsel of bread

Frequency: 5.03.1 per million words

a small piece or amount of bread

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Examples (10)

  • A small bird hopped over and pecked at a morsel of bread on the ground.
  • The hungry man gratefully accepted the single morsel of bread offered to him.
  • She was so full she could only manage a tiny morsel of bread.
  • He tore off a morsel of bread to dip into the olive oil.
  • For the starving refugee, even a stale morsel of bread was a feast.
  • All that was left on his plate was a final morsel of bread soaked in soup.
  • The mouse quickly scurried away with the morsel of bread it had found.
  • He had been so busy, he'd only eaten a morsel of bread since morning.
  • Can you spare a morsel of bread for the ducklings by the pond?
  • She carefully placed a morsel of bread on the trap to catch the rodent.