Meaning

Uncommon form of soup bowl..

Example Sentences

Campaign promises include Rothman’s program calling for “a matzoh ball in every soupbowl”, and a Kaye proposal that would “make one thing perfectly clear.” […] “I will personally mail them to every student on campus,” continued Rothman, adding that soup and soupbowls must be provided by the individual students.

Soup is usually served in a large bowl in the centre of the table, and each person helps himself to his soup bowl. Individual soupbowls are usually smaller than ricebowls. […] As a New Year sweet this is often served rather formally in a lidded Chinese teacup, but as an ordinary sweet snack it may be served in a soupbowl.

Along the walls, busboys in short white jackets stood waiting to remove the caviar plates and soupbowls when they’d been emptied. […] She pushed her soupbowl away. […] Foxx saw the busboy approaching to remove the soupbowl and concentrated on the youth’s face.

Tests and experiments conducted in loose, dry soil, more similar to where US silos are based, produced smaller-diameter, soupbowl-like craters.

It is not uncommon for all the family to drink from the big soupbowl in the middle of the table, though when guests are present, individual soupbowls, small serving plates and shallow dishes for sauces are also set.

In Houston, he drank coffee by the gallon, traded his Brooks Brothers ensemble for a confronting range of cowboywear, and took to stalking the hallways in lizard skin boots and tight jeans augmented by a soupbowl-sized belt buckle he had bought off an aging rodeo champion.

Mojitos come in glasses of soupbowl-like proportions, and food servings are generous.

Word Forms

• soupbowls

When Should You Use Soup bowl?

Use soup bowl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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