barbecue sauce
noun
: a spicy sauce that is usually eaten with barbecued food
He makes a barbecue sauce that tastes great with chicken.
Examples of barbecue sauce in a Sentence
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Ribs can be ordered with hot honey or barbecue sauce.
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Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024
Her wife usually packed her bags, loading them with American staples like candy, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce, pancake mix and Creole seasoning.
—J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
Sweet and high-acid Sauternes is also an excellent pick, especially for meat or chicken doused with barbecue sauce that offers notes of sugar and vinegar.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2024
Sometimes the dishes, like sticky lamb ribs glazed in thick pomegranate molasses barbecue sauce and finished with fried rosemary and pickled persimmons, come off overwrought, and a too-busy take on a Caesar salad could use one less ingredient.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
Stir in beans, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, and salt.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2024
Around lunchtime, a crew member hands Efron, White, and Dickinson a plate of ribs to eat on camera, and before long, all three are coated in a fine layer of barbecue sauce.
—EW.com, 6 Nov. 2023
The university is already using the syrup in its food service program to create new flavors of salad dressing and barbecue sauce, and also sells it at farmers’ markets.
—Wayne Parry, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
Place ribs, barbecue sauce, and stock in a programmable pressure multicooker (such as Instant Pot).
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2024
Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024
Her wife usually packed her bags, loading them with American staples like candy, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce, pancake mix and Creole seasoning.
—J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
Sweet and high-acid Sauternes is also an excellent pick, especially for meat or chicken doused with barbecue sauce that offers notes of sugar and vinegar.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2024
Sometimes the dishes, like sticky lamb ribs glazed in thick pomegranate molasses barbecue sauce and finished with fried rosemary and pickled persimmons, come off overwrought, and a too-busy take on a Caesar salad could use one less ingredient.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
Stir in beans, barbecue sauce, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, and salt.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2024
Around lunchtime, a crew member hands Efron, White, and Dickinson a plate of ribs to eat on camera, and before long, all three are coated in a fine layer of barbecue sauce.
—EW.com, 6 Nov. 2023
The university is already using the syrup in its food service program to create new flavors of salad dressing and barbecue sauce, and also sells it at farmers’ markets.
—Wayne Parry, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
Place ribs, barbecue sauce, and stock in a programmable pressure multicooker (such as Instant Pot).
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2024
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