Collocations for "slice"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "slice" in context.
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slice
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a slice of [bread, cake, tart, pizza]
- ate [three] slices of [bread]
- a [thick, thin] piece of [bread]
- sell pizza by the slice
- do you want the last slice?
- [build, construct] on a slice of land
- [hit, threw] the ball with a slice
- played the [backhand, forehand] with a slice
- the (golf) ball took a slice to the [right, left]
- idiom: a small slice of heaven
- [won, qualified] with a slice of luck
- not without a slice of [fortune, luck]
- wants a slice of the [money, profit]
- slice [a cake, a corner, your finger]
- slice through [paper, your skin]
- the [boat, Jet Ski®, pebble] sliced through the water
- slice off [your finger, a piece, a nail]
- sliced his [finger] off
- his [thumb] was sliced off
- slice in [pieces, strips, half]
- slice [the ball, his shot]
- slice to the [left, right]
- idiom: any way you slice it
- slice and dice
'slice' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
cut
- save
- seed
- apple
- banana
- bread
- breast
- cake
- cheese
- potato
- pie
- orange
- meat
- another
- big
- huge
- thin
- large
- peach
- cabbage
- coconut
- eggplant
- jigsaw
- leek
- lemon
- lime
- marrow
- melon
- watermelon
- zucchini
- avocado
- beet
- grapefruit
- onion
- pear
- Swiss
- tiny
- wavy
- wee
- humble
- squash
- taking
- spear
- skim
- tomato
- turnip
- parsnip