Used in a Sentence

ingredients

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ingredients.

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Just for grins, read the ingredients from a few Nestle foods soldin the United States, fly to Geneva then read the ingredients of their Swiss products.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ingredients gathered in one view.

noun

One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

noun

(figurative) A necessary element to achieve a certain goal; a component.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ingredients.

noun

One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

noun

(figurative) A necessary element to achieve a certain goal; a component.

Example sentences

1

Just for grins, read the ingredients from a few Nestle foods soldin the United States, fly to Geneva then read the ingredients of their Swiss products.

2

All the other big restaurant chains use little to no truly fresh ingredients and for a good reason.

3

Restrict the ingredients to make the weapons, and you can prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

4

It’s just three ingredients, pasta, tomatoes either fresh or already crushed in a tin and some olive oil.

5

Maybe it does contain all the essential ingredients but maybe the human body can't process them effectively.

6

Even Chipotle can have very substandard pico or guacamole and that's basically their only really fresh ingredients (save lettuce).

7

My only problem with it is that it's super hard to combine it with other ingredients (baking for example).

8

Can you really call a discussion about ingredients which have been studied/discussed for decades a 'fad'?

9

No solution to the ingredients problem scales in a way that favors big entities.

10

None of these ingredients are absolutely required, but most successful startup recipes include them.

11

I think the ingredients problem is why chain restaurants haven't completely dominated the landscape and why small restaurants can compete.

12

Maybe it's not very healthy taking all these ingredients every day.

Quote examples

1

In fact there is a "tax" associated with being big for many ingredients that small restaurants don't pay.

2

Everyone is like, "Soylent is revolutionary." But when you look at the ingredients in a mass gainer, particularly something like Aronld Iron Mass, they're nearly identical.

3

Maybe some slight vitamin tweaking to make a bodybuilding weight gainer a full food replacement, but really, that's not "revolutionary." Soylent is the same old ingredients, different marketing.

4

There are three basic ingredients which go into making planets: rock (including pure metals), "ice" (a catch-all term which includes all phases of water along with methane and ammonia) and hydrogen/helium mixture.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ingredients in a sentence?

Just for grins, read the ingredients from a few Nestle foods soldin the United States, fly to Geneva then read the ingredients of their Swiss products.

What does ingredients mean?

One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

What part of speech is ingredients?

ingredients is commonly used as noun.