gruel

We had gruel for the breakfast.

The recruits were put through a week of grueling endurance tests.

Friday will bring a 5.5-mile run, the extra half-mile my grueling expiation of any gastronomical indulgences during the week.

He was writing his report so attentively that he didn’t know the rice gruel in the pot had boiled over.

The orphanage served gruel for breakfast every morning.

She found comfort in a bowl of warm gruel on a cold winter night.

The gruel was bland and tasteless, but it was all they had to eat.

The poor beggar begged for a bowl of gruel to fill his empty stomach.

She stirred the gruel slowly, watching as it thickened to the perfect consistency.

The gruel was a simple meal, but it provided sustenance for the weary travelers.

The prisoners were given a meager portion of gruel each day.

The old man slurped his gruel noisily, not caring about the mess he was making.

The children lined up eagerly for their serving of warm gruel.

The gruel was a humble dish, but it brought a sense of comfort and warmth.

One of them said Sunday the charges against Trump are pretty thin gruel.

The food was horrific — dirty water served alongside rotting meat, gruel, and nearly inedible bread.

Do you suppose my subscribers are going to stand such gruel as that?

Give it a little gruel if it is.

It is several days of grueling work.

The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people.

Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour.

They grumbled that they only had gruel and groundnut to eat.

You think maybe sitting alone with my thoughts for fifty-six hours has made gruel out of my brains?

Scrooge, in dressing-gown, slippers, and nightcap, sits before a fire. He is eating from a bowl of gruel, and his face is scowling.