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breadcrumbs
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
breadcrumbs
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fresh
▪ Pour the sauce over the leeks, sprinkle with fresh breadcrumbs and grill until crispy on top.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add the nuts, tomatoes, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, mixed herbs and chilli.
▪ Crumble the soil to the consistency of breadcrumbs.
▪ Dip fish in egg, followed by breadcrumbs.
▪ Paul's guide to this mighty sauce is three large refuse sacks of breadcrumbs to 60 pints of milk.
▪ Place the flour in a bowl and rub in the butter or margarine until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
▪ Pour the sauce over the leeks, sprinkle with fresh breadcrumbs and grill until crispy on top.
▪ Rub in butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
▪ Stir in the breadcrumbs and mixed herbs and season lightly.
Wiktionary
breadcrumbs

alt. 1 (plural of breadcrumb English) 2 (context Internet English) A trail of hyperlinks that lead consecutively to the current page, displayed in the page as a guide and a means of navigate easily to any of the pages in the trail. n. 1 (plural of breadcrumb English) 2 (context Internet English) A trail of hyperlinks that lead consecutively to the current page, displayed in the page as a guide and a means of navigate easily to any of the pages in the trail.

Usage examples of "breadcrumbs".

It pecked at the breadcrumbs, and Door reached out her right hand and picked it up.

Door stood on Richard's bed to reach it, opened the window, and sprinkled the breadcrumbs around.

Brush the patties with the beaten egg and then turn them in a bowl containing the breadcrumbs.

She was following the discussion from the Nike, using relays established by the breadcrumbs that A.

Or take the famous trail of breadcrumbs Hansel leaves behind, so he and his sister can find their way back.

I suspect nothing added here is as good as Hansel's trail of breadcrumbs, but I have always regretted the fact that no one but me and a few in-house readers at Doubleday ever met that maniac who simply calls himself The Kid .

Ol' William had been only mildly interested in the breadcrumbs -- but the package they came in, even busted, _that_ fascinated the guy.

He threw out five or six more breadcrumbs, enough so they could figure their relative positions accurately.

He threw out a few more breadcrumbs and looked back up the path, at the beacons of the other nodes.

Juan took three more breadcrumbs from his bag and threw them one at a time, as hard as he could.

And it's moving between two breadcrumbs," effectively a two-station wireless tomograph.

But even here, even with his eyes closed, his contacts were still on, and Juan saw the virtual gleam of the breadcrumbs.

Juan pushed past William, and tossed two more breadcrumbs down the hole.

It's that crispy, nutty taste that gets me—and breadcrumbs never seem so fatty.

He dabbed at them with a lightly scented kerchief, and dipped his hand into the bag of breadcrumbs.