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as in mouth
disrespectful or argumentative talk given in response to a command or request
if you put up with any sauce from them, they'll only get worse
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as in nerve
shameless boldness
the woman was shocked by the sauce of the child who ran right up to her and asked for money
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as in liquor
slang
a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk
as soon as she returned home from the graveyard shift, she'd be hitting the sauce
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Recent Examples of sauce
Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
They can also be blended into sauces or homemade energy bars.
—Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 9 Jan. 2026
Molly Baz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
For the past year, around 154,000 new households purchased a jar of Carbone sauce each month.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sauce
Noun
Beef patty with bacon, an egg patty, cheddar cheese sauce, hash browns and a hollandaise aioli.
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Boiled potatoes, on the other hand, can be ready to mash, smash, or sauce in as little as 15 minutes.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for sauce
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Naked dressing is alive and well at the 2026 Golden Globes.—
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Make the dressing in a small bowl by whisking together the fish sauce, fermented chilli sauce (or sriracha), lime juice, and palm syrup.—
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Baby and Kids' Toys Babies put everything in their mouths, and the dishwasher is a perfect way to keep teething rings and pacifiers clean.—
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Mistora, the mysterious cocktail bar that opened last year in Atlanta’s Piedmont Heights neighborhood, put a bad taste in my mouth before the first dish even touched my table.—
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His brands, including Juicy Fruit and Spearmint, promoted gum as a way to calm nerves, curb hunger and stay focused.—
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What's more, these effects also support brain health4, as the gut and brain are connected through a network of nerves called the gut-brain axis.—
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Last year, multiple locations were seized by the Kansas Department of Revenue for thousands of dollars in unpaid sales and liquor taxes.—
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Aldermen legalized video gambling machines in neighborhood establishments, restructured liquor taxes to bring in more revenue, cleared the way for advertising on downtown bridges and more.—
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Antica Dolceria Bonajuto along Corso Umberto is Sicily’s oldest chocolate factory—the chocolate here is dark, richly flavored, and crumbly rather than smooth.—
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At the core of it are herbs—grand wormwood, green anise, and fennel—that are infused and re-distilled and flavored usually with more herbs like angelica, star anise, licorice root, and others.—
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Their most recent project is a French rosé, a mix of NYC sass meets Provence.—
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The whole equilibrium of the show was thrown off without Leighton bringing her signature sass (and questionable fashion choices) to Essex College.—
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DeSantis has offered a few limp rationalizations for his demand, but nothing that would overcome the sheer gall of this re-write of the rules.—
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In 1994, at 33, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which led to the removal of part of his pancreas, the duodenum, the gall bladder and part of his liver.—
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The goal here is to convert the organic compound n-butanol into 1,4 butanediol, a bivalent alcohol and important raw material for plastics.—
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The driver of the truck, a 40-year-old man, was not hurt and will be subject to drug and alcohol testing, which police say is standard procedure.—
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“Sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sauce. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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