olive

Definition:
1. A small green or black fruit with a strong taste, used in cooking and for its oil.
2. A tree on which olives grow.
3. A yellowish-green colour.

Use 'olive' in a sentence:

• 1. Combine the tomatoes, chiles, cilantro, vinegar, lime juice and olive oil in a bowl.
• 2. If you have triple cheese-meat-sausage lasagna but you have a little olive oil on your bread, you're not doing much for your heart.
• 3. Only extra-virgin olive oil will do on recherché dinner tables.
• 4. People from Greece built ships so that they could use olive oil for trade.
• 5. Wars between states were suspended during the Olympic Games, and the winners were given crowns of olive branches.
• 6. The olive tree has always been a valuable source of food and oil.
• 7. Ring the changes by adding spices, dried fruit or olives.
• 8. Drizzle them with warmed extra virgin olive oil.
• 9. Today, olive oil is still a very valuable product, and many different kinds of olive oil are sold in countries all over the world.
• 10. Its fruit can be made into olive oil.
• 11. Choose sardines packed in olive or sardine oil.
• 12. In ancient Greece, for example, anyone who cut down an olive tree was heavily punished.
• 13. I found the scene in which Percy proposed to Olive tremendously poignant.
• 14. It was the Romans who grew the olive tree in the rest of southern Europe and northern Africa.
• 15. There were snacks ─ peanuts, olives, that sort of thing.
• 16. None of Olive's relatives looked likely to pop off for the time being, thank God.
• 17. Automation revolutionized the olive industry in the early 1970s.
• 18. Study on the relationship between olive root system and soil physical factors.
• 19. Clarke also offered an olive branch to critics in his party.
• 20. The olives are crushed to a pulp by stone rollers.
• 21. Mediterranean cooking uses smaller amounts of saturated fat and higher amounts of unsaturated fat, mostly in the form of olive oil.
• 22. They are handsome with dark, shining hair, olive skin and fine brown eyes.
• 23. Mix the rest of the olive oil with the zest and juice of the lemon.
• 24. People have used olive oil to cook dishes for centuries.
• 25. The proportion of free oleic acid that an olive oil contains is an accurate measure of the oil's acidity.
• 26. Sometimes winners were also given a prize of olive oil.
• 27. We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives.
• 28. Olive oil has also been an important product in the business and culture of Mediterranean countries.
• 29. Study on economic characteristics of olive fruit I. fruit for oil olive.
• 30. Spread the inside of the loaf with olive paste or pesto sauce for extra flavour.
• 31. They clambered up the stone walls of a steeply terraced olive grove.
• 32. Whatever the history, the olive branch is a part of many modem flags symbolizing peace and unity.
• 33. In modern times, people still use olive oil both for its taste and its health advantages.
• 34. Dribble a little olive oil over the salad.
• 35. Olive groves, grapes, and citrus fruits grow in profusion.
• 36. They crush the olives with a heavy wooden press.
• 37. Olive oil and garlic feature prominently in his recipes.
• 38. Paella's ingredients include rice, olive oil, roasted rabbit, chicken, shrimp, red and green peppers, onions, and plenty of garlic.
• 39. After the prayer, young men and women distributed olive branches while a choir sang a hymn in Greek.
• 40. Every square metre of soil was used, mainly for olives, vines, and almonds.
• 41. Cut the flesh from the olives and discard the stones.
• 42. Until the 1980s almost all olives were packed into jars by hand.
• 43. Just rub some bread with fresh garlics and plenty of ripe tomatoes, then drizzle with olive oil and salt.
• 44. I have recently acquired a taste for olives.
• 45. Combine the beans, chopped mint and olive oil in a large bowl.
• 46. I made a switch from butter to olive oil for much of my cooking.
• 47. She speared an olive with her fork.
• 48. Management is holding out an olive branch to the strikers.
• 49. The main ingredients are tomato, cucumber, bell peppers, olive oil and stale bread.
• 50. The road led through an olive-grove, and here the solitary inn was situated.
• 51. I don't like the taste of olives.
• 52. Smear a little olive oil over the inside of the salad bowl.
• 53. She wore an olive-green T-shirt.
• 54. Machines now exist to pack olives in jars.
• 55. In the roots of the olives, you could find centipedes as long as a pencil.
• 56. Olive oil, wheat germ oil, and rice bran oil also naturally contain squalene, albeit in smaller amounts.
• 57. Olives look romantic on a hillside in Provence.