gravy

IPA: grˈeɪvi

(countable, uncountable) A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
A dark savoury sauce prepared from stock and usually meat juices; brown gravy.
(Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.
(uncountable, chiefly Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
(uncountable, India, Singapore) Curry sauce.
(uncountable, informal) Unearned gain.
(uncountable, informal) Extra benefit.

Examples of "gravy" in Sentences

And the English word gravy appears, derived apparently but mysteriously from the French grané.
This classic combo of buckwheat groats, bowtie noodles and gravy, is incredibly simple to make when it it prepared as a side with a brisket in gravy.
The Italian surroundings did not rub off on this Irish-Swedish-American so I never spent all day stirring my homemade marinara, which they call gravy, by the way.
The turkey was dry, and over-cooked, and I soon discovered that what we call gravy back in Jolly Old, was, in America, a white sauce made from a roux of butter, flour and milk.
The Jews rightly expound this law as forbidding only the blood of the life, as they express it, not that which we call the gravy, for of that they supposed it was lawful to eat.
Kouvalis, the man credited with parlaying the phrase "gravy train" to a Ford victory, has been meeting with lawyers over the past few weeks to ensure no one is violating campaign-financing legislation.
Outspoken South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in September that he was disappointed that the black-led government had failed to stop what he termed the gravy train set in motion by its apartheid predecessors.