___ sauce (sugary purée)

Usage examples of melba.

The large platter also contained smoked salmon, pickled herring, liver pate, melba toast, bagels and cream cheese, artichoke hearts and slices of Kiwi fruit and papaya.

Her name was Dorothy, and she and Melba were not at odds, merely untalkative.

When Melba reached the dining room with a patch on her head and a tensor round her ankle everyone else was half through.

Vivian laughed, but she was a nervous laugher and Melba not easily offended.

Viv was the smallest and liveliest of the lot, and Melba liked her for making up what she herself lacked.

It was Melba who waited for Viv, after all, while she lingered over her tea.

Nevertheless, Melba, though she did not know if Viv had seen those children, down in the huge rooms of tanks and enclosures, knew that the age limit was thirty, Viv was twenty-eight, and that both she and NeoGenics agreed that seven would fulfill her contract.

Elaine Heslin and Melba Congleton, another girl I had met on the campaign trail, saw to that.

We took photographs of each other on the pier and wanted a group shot, so Melba asked a local resident to take one.

Doctor Maynard called it a acthidental overdoth tho we could put her in the ground with a prietht and thome prayer beadth, but you know Melba had had all thee could take.

Behind the counter, Stanley Caldwell rang up the purchases while his wife, Melba, bagged.

Nevertheless, because she loved him very much, she obediently ate it, helped down with Melba toast.

Miss Melba Rooney, a four-timer poisoner of husbands, not all of them her own.

He opened the back window and took in the yogurt and a can of ginger ale, set them down beside her with a spoon and some melba toast.

She stood up, swathed in her towel, Venus arising from the depths, and bowed with regal graciousness towards the audience, Madame Melba taking her final farewell of Covent Garden.