"bagel" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it anytime to refer to a type of round, slightly flattened, doughy bread roll that is usually boiled and then baked. Example sentence: I usually start my day with a delicious bagel and cream cheese.
On a Tuesday I'll have a good breakfast, I'll make eggs and a bagel.
But you can't make a toastie from a bagel, and a chip pitta lacks devil-may-care snack appeal.
If Serena Williams can bagel a fitter, younger opponent in the third set of a semi-final at a slam while appearing to be operating on half a lung and anaesthetised legs – as she did to beat the bewildered Timea Bacsinszky on Thursday – her opponent in Saturday's final, Lucie Safarova, has no chance.
Next up for the Ferrer treatment is Djokovic, who beat Kei Nishikori, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 on Friday, emphatic revenge (with a mid-match blip) for losing to him in the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows last year – although he did subsequently bagel him in the third set at the ATP World Tour Finals.
The punch-up seems to have been over a parking spot outside a bagel shop in a Denver suburb, where he allegedly beat up another hungry driver.
Ben and Jerry's was formed when two childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, got together to start an ice-cream business (they wanted to go into the bagel business but could not raise the cash).
Employers are desperate for staff: the bagel shop near the Dane County job centre even promises "no polyester uniforms".
He was living in a volcanic field on Santa Cruz island 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, where you couldn't find a decent bagel if you tried: in fact, a place a lot like Washington.Besides, he was no looker.
Or the couple who demanded a fortune in compensation from McDonald's, claiming that a tough bagel had ruined their marriage?
He faces a trial in September; if convicted, he could face a mandatory sentence of five years in prison.Pakistanis will be hoping the bagel incident can bring down some punishment on Mr Davis, even when a double-homicide didn't.(Picture credit: AFP).
In turn, JAR's jewels will enable them to see the Met's collection "with fresh eyes".These adornments and objets d'art, ranging from an amusing engraved bagel made of wood to a translucent amber pocket watch, occupy a single, spacious oval gallery.
