Sentence examples for a scrap of bread. from inspiring English sources

The children were fed a scrap of bread, and then set about begging.

Originally it was a humble peasant treat on bread-baking day, made from a scrap of bread dough and baked on the stone floor of a village's wood-fired oven.

All she wanted was a better quality of life for the 14,000 people of her home town, a place of cattle-raising in thorny chaparral amid dense tropical forest; to pull the place out of its neglect, in which most people "have to tear their souls apart every day to get a scrap of bread for their children".

Not because of the daily massacres, the Scud missiles or the Mig helicopters; nor because of Syria's transformation into a hell on earth, where people die every day as they wait in line for a scrap of bread, where Assad's aircraft bombard the bread ovens so that the people will starve.

Come on, we've come to your restaurant, hungry and ready to order an appetizer, an entrée, a few side dishes, maybe even dessert, but you'll begrudge us a scrap of bread to nibble on while we await our service?

You who live safe In your warm houses, You who find, returning in the evening, Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is a man Who works in the mud, Who does not know peace, Who fights for a scrap of bread, Who dies because of a yes or a no.

Arnold Schwarzenegger outlawed production in California in 2004 in a cheap scrap of bread and circuses politics – his state had only one producer – and Chicago prohibited the sale of foie gras in its restaurants between 2006 and 2008, the mayor commenting that this brief ban was "the silliest thing they [the city council] have ever done".

(Menashe says he has a cook working full-time on just the spice blends, and I can believe it). You carve off a bit of the dripping meat, tear off a scrap of hot laffa bread, tuck in the vegetables — you have constructed the ultimate taco al pastor of the Middle East, and the rich meat seems to transform from solid to ethereal liquid in an instant.

Not a scrap of it.

It's like a scrap of Europe".

Kindly send me a scrap of Ranunculus sibbaldioides.