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# sandwich

«sandwich» in Mova's school dictionary: **two slices of bread with food such as cheese, ham or jam…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sandwich, sandwiches); verb (sandwich, sandwiches, sandwiched, sandwiching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sandwich is two slices of bread with food such as cheese, ham or jam between them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#m1)

2) To be sandwiched is to be squeezed between two things or people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a food item made, bought or counted; may use 2 slices of bread each; in everyday life: a packed lunch, a picnic, a sandwich shop; in health: wash your hands before making food; phrases: «a cheese sandwich», «sandwiched between»; history: named after the Earl of Sandwich

### examples

- Mum made 12 sandwiches for the picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x1)
- Each sandwich uses 2 slices of bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x2)
- A sandwich costs 4 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x3)
- They ate 3 sandwiches each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x4)
- I have a cheese and tomato sandwich in my lunch box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x5)
- She cut her sandwich into triangles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x6)
- The small car was sandwiched between two lorries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x7)
- The sandwich is named after the Earl of Sandwich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x8)
- I have a sandwich in my hand.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/#x9)

### note

A counted item; «2 slices per sandwich» is a rate (12 sandwiches → 24 slices). Trap: cutting a sandwich in half makes 2 pieces, but it is still 1 sandwich. Plural: sandwiches.

### In the corpora

- [Gulls are bold and clever, and they learn that people carry food, so some snatch chips and sandwiches at the seaside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/5/)
- [Writing your own sentence with each word fixes spelling and meaning together: «I accidentally dropped my sandwich.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/11/)
- ["A few sandwiches short of a picnic" (UK) means stupid or a bit mad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/35-mistakes-and-stupidity/13/)
- [Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks are finger foods, and most other foods are eaten with cutlery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/5/)
- [Every day for three weeks, Noah in Austin threw his sandwich in the school bin because he did not like the crusts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sandwich» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandwich/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.