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.
