How to Use bagel in a Sentence

bagel

noun
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  • The local lox, even with the best bagel and schmear, was too salty for his taste.
    — Amanda Gordon, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Out came bags of bagels, platters of cream cheese, smoked salmon, fresh fruit and a carton of hot coffee sent by my colleagues.
    — Alisyn Camerota, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Our thoughts: Looking for something different to spread on your breakfast toast or bagel?
    — cleveland, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Then depending on my mood, usually an English muffin, and every now and then a bagel.
    — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2021
  • The sandwich comes with a bagel, vegan cream cheese, marinated tomato lox, capers, onion and dill.
    — Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The veggie bagel — with bagels from Maple Street Patisserie — arrives topped with goat cheese, avocado and sprouts.
    — Beth D'addono, NOLA.com, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Peanut butter or nut-free butter (like sunflower, yellow split pea, soy): Use nut butter for sandwiches or as a topping for toast or bagel.
    — Toby Amidor, Ms, Rd, Cdn, Parents, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Traditionally, bagels are boiled before being baked, but these are not; the exterior is as chewy as a bagel's, but the interior isn't as dense.
    — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • And after eating lemon poppy seed bread or an everything bagel, mothers reportedly have been separated from newborns because the women failed drug tests.
    — David Hilzenrath, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Dunkin’s avocado toast is available for $2.99 and is served on sourdough bread and topped with avocado and everything-bagel seasoning.
    — Coral Murphy Marcos, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2021
  • So, this is what the world has come to … a pre-cheesed bagel.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Do the pizza, which uses the bagel dough for the crust.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Grab the Fishy bagel with the whitefish spread and giddy up.
    — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Don’t think for a minute, though, that this bagel doesn’t come with a big hole in it.
    — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 30 May 2024
  • While nicely spiced, the sausage patty was small compared to the size of the bagel.
    — cleveland, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The other day, someone there stole a bagel from a deli.
    — Kashana Cauley, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Tien picked at a bagel in her office and checked her phone.
    — Byreuters, ABC News, 1 May 2022
  • Shug’s bacon, egg, and cheese on a bagel is a wormhole to the East Coast.
    — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Your run-of-the-mill bagel from the grocery store simply will not do.
    — Esther Choy, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The ube and kimchi bagel is a swirl of orange and purple.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2023
  • And that was an improvement over his bagel in the first half of Game 1.
    — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
  • There are tents with groups stretching and tents with bagels.
    — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Serve it with corn chips or bagel chips, or just eat it up with your fork.
    — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The people who order a bagel with the middle pulled out.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Scrape in the eggy bagel mixture, then evenly spread it out.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
  • Thiessen has a recipe for Bagel French onion soup that swaps the hallmark crouton in the bowl for a bagel.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Place bagel halves, cut sides up, on a small baking sheet.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 27 July 2023
  • The St-Viateur bagel shop is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
    — George Varga, Twin Cities, 21 May 2024
  • Her favorite recipe in the book: Call Your Mother Deli bagels.
    — John Frank, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Bystanders rushed to help along with the officers who were in the bagel shop next door.
    — Fox News, 26 July 2021

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