How to Use pea soup in a Sentence

pea soup

noun
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  • The first course arrived — spring pea soup — and everyone got the memo to let the queen taste hers first.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Despite its name, spring-fed Clear Lake is as murky as pea soup.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Movie-goers learned from this movie that Linda Blair was fed way too much pea soup.
    — Mike Oliver | [email protected], al, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Cyanobacteria looks almost like pea soup, and floats on top of the water.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2021
  • Monte Cristo sandwich with ham and Swiss cheese, black eyed pea soup and Caesar salad.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Original Game Boy games default to the pea soup-green tones of the original screen.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Split pea soup doesn’t always have the most thrilling reputation.
    — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Dishes include pea soup, roast beef with sherry sauce and Yorkshire pudding and, for dessert, warm mince pies.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2019
  • And the varieties are endless–from tortilla soup to pea soup to bean soup, there’s something for everyone!
    — Natalie Rizzo, Women's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Infused with smoky bacon flavor and fresh thyme, this earthy pea soup is a foolproof way to cure the impending winter blues.
    — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
  • At that point, the clouds are squeezed down and are in contact with the land’s surface, forming the kind of beach fog that can seem as thick as pea soup, but leaving sunny skies just a few miles inland.
    — Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • And many of the recipes that were created during that transition, including the pea soup, continue to be staples on the menu.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Blue-green algae blooms, turning clear water into pea soup.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Earth, with its gravity and its pea soup atmosphere and its crowded orbit.
    — Tade Thompson, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Other hits: Rich English pea soup, juicy sliders, and a generous meat and cheese board with duck rillettes and chicken liver mousse.
    — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • The lake water then mostly stagnated into a goo the consistency of pea soup in some areas.
    — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The updated menu will feature spring pea soup, king crab farfalle pasta and filet mignon with a story that see the little animated chef meet the girl of his dreams at age 12.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The blooms can look like pea soup, grass clippings or green latex paint and are typically suspended in the water and can appear as floating mats.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • Dishes range from the traditional fondue and croziflette to pea soup with mint and duckling fillet.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Light waves of this type can’t get through the hydrogen fog, so any stars or galaxies sitting in that early pea soup remain invisible.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Their innovative but faithful takes on the classic supper-club repertoire beg one to ask, what’s not to like about pea soup (poured tableside into a cloud of Cheddar mousse)?
    — New York Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The warm glow of a street lamp struggles to cut through the pea soup, but the details of the scene remain indefinite, blurry, faintly mysterious, the people’s faces shrouded in shadow, the sky grainy and gray on the old-fashioned film.
    — Andrew Lanham, The New Republic, 8 June 2018
  • There was only Alabama in 2020, and teams everyone knew Alabama was going to smash into split-pea soup.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 11 June 2021
  • In dishes such as split-pea soup with plantain and dumplings, and All Green Everything—a bowl of crisply sautéed baby okra, asparagus, and Brussels sprouts, garnished with purslane and spinach-and-basil pesto—the vegetables speak for themselves.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 7 May 2021
  • But on the west side, closer to many sources of pollution, residents can get stuck in a thicker pea soup of car exhaust, refinery emissions and other pollutants.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Visual appearances of an algal bloom, which look like spilt paint or split-pea soup on the water surface, cannot indicate the bloom's toxicity.
    — Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2022
  • The department warned one should assume a BGA bloom is present when water looks like pea soup, or green, blue or red paint -- or when blue or green scum is seen floating on water surfaces or accumulated along the shoreline.
    — Fox News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Live Scandinavian music and food available from the Velkommen Café (including traditional yellow pea soup, hot cider and pølse — a reindeer dog wrapped in lefse).
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Along with crafts and other vendors, there are baked goodies, Shrimp Skagen sandwiches, pea soup, waffles and meatballs on Saturday.
    — Madeline McKenzie, The Seattle Times, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Headlines on trade these days are like leftover pea soup—sometimes hot, sometimes chilly, always unsatisfying.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 21 May 2018

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