(n.) A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.
(n.) Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.
(n.) The soft part of bread.
(v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fundus appeared to consist of multiple, scattered, pale, bread crumb-like lesions that seemed to lie deep to the retinal vessels and anterior to the retinal pigment epithelium.
(2) The only small crumb of comfort for Osborne is that when he delivers his budget in March it will be too soon to know the GDP figures for the first quarter of 2012 — so although we may already be in recession by then, we won't know it.
(3) To – as our north of England editor Helen Pidd wrote last week – no longer live on crumbs, while others in London enjoy entire loaves.
(4) One crumb of consolation is that the damage was to Wilshere’s left ankle, rather than the more problematic right one, which kept him out for 17 months from June 2011.
(5) Press the fillets first into the mustard and paprika, then into the crumbs.
(6) The champagne bottles are in the recycling bin, the bouquets on the compost heap and the cake crumbs swept away.
(7) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
(8) In another experiment, minced meat was mixed with starch from golden bread crumbs (3%) or potatoes (4%), with and without glucose (1, 2 or 4%).
(9) There were crumbs of brilliance for fans on luvvies' day (nice to see Sir Bruce Forsyth so attentive, nice), most of them from the racket of the defending champion.
(10) The measure of humidity, of peroxides and of the staleness of crumb are favourable for a good conservation.
(11) One inmate was denied outdoor exercise for 60 days for trying to feed crumbs to birds.
(12) Evidence that the lesions were well placed included interruption of weight gain, transient aphagia, disrupted nest building, increased spillage of food crumbs and in some cases abnormal postures or movement.
(13) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
(14) Brush off any crumbs from the marzipan and worktop before wrapping the cake, to be sure that the outside of the cake will have a smooth, neat finish.
(15) Biomicroscopy also revealed a progressive disruption of the homogeneous nature of the corneal stroma by the appearance of large 'bread crumb'-like opacities that started at 72 h and was still present at the end of the evaluation period.
(16) The leftist, pro-Kurdish HDP party gained a small crumb of comfort from passing the 10% threshold it needed to secure seats as a party in the new parliament – less than the 13% it scored in June, but enough to deny the AKP a so-called supermajority, the 330 MPs a ruling party needs to be able to call a referendum on changes to the country’s constitution.
(17) Whatever crumbs of wrongdoing there may be, they don’t amount to something worthy of Watergate, or even the myriad gate-suffixed scandals since.
(18) "Widening inequality is creating a vicious circle where wealth and power are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, leaving the rest of us to fight over crumbs from the top table," Byanyima said.
(19) He continued to live off his notoriety, posing for photographs with tourists in exchange for money, selling souvenir T-shirts that commemorated his escapes, scrabbling for crumbs from the media table and charging tourists £40 for a barbecue at his house.
(20) You are poor in the wealthiest city in the world, the crumbs fall downwards, you will be given a chance to get up again.
Crumpet
Definition:
(n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Well, it's better than being lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose."
(2) This election has its fair share of cranks, the obligatory Monster Raving Loonies, a guy campaigning to save local pubs (to give the full triumvirate of endangered pleasures, it's the Beer, Baccy and Crumpets party).
(3) That is superb.” Another said: “Surely if you were truly patriotic it would be renamed crumpet corner?
(4) So you might say: "What I really love is a buttered crumpet," and they'll go: "That's easy!
(5) Its regulars have a habit of bringing gifts for the Balmore team: scones and crumpets are a favourite.
(6) Marks & Spencer is having a second go at exporting its uniquely British mix of clothing and crumpets to mainland Europe , pressing the button on expansion in France and scouting for sites in the big Italian and Spanish cities.
(7) But he reminds me that he has learned a lot first hand from Firth about how to make an honourable career from being perceived as costume-drama crumpet.
(8) Updated at 7.11pm BST 6.02pm BST "One hates to bother you during tea and crumpets," Mark Edwards begins, "but is Leo Messi even showing a pulse on the pitch v. Atletico?
(9) Supplies of loaves and crumpets could be hit by three weeks of action in three separate stints beginning on 28 August after three-quarters of the balloted workers voted for action.
(10) Prices are appreciably higher than at the Richmond but the teapots are silver, teabags unknown and they do serve crumpets they way crumpets should be served, on stiffly starched doilies and Wedgwood china plates.
(11) Seems like the Grauniad fraternity might prefer the regular 'crumpet' section in La Marca, which seems to have exploded recently.
(12) How did she feel about being described as the thinking man's crumpet?