How do you use the word "spaghetti" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "spaghetti": I like to add basil to season my spaghetti sauce. You mustn't eat too much ice cream and spaghetti.

Spaghetti Meaning

/spəˈɡɛti/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

nounA type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings., A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.

Sentence Examples

I like to add basil to season my spaghetti sauce.

You mustn't eat too much ice cream and spaghetti.

CEFR Practice Quiz

For dinner, she cooked a pot of homemade ____ with tomato sauce.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She prepared a delicious dinner of ____ and meatballs with a rich homemade tomato and herb sauce.

Word Origin & History

The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek. The verb is derived from the noun.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Maccheroni, or Spaghetti, a smaller kind of macaroni, sufficient for the dinner of an ordinary mortal, generally follows the soup. It is as a rule served up with tomato sauce, and Parmesan cheese thickly scattered over it." — 1888, Isabella Beeton, “General Observations on Italian Cookery”, in The Book of Household Management; […], new edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock and Co. […], →OCLC, paragraph 2952, page 1298:

"Or how about that spaghetti of cables, adaptors and plugs you keep in a box somewhere, the detritus of old phones, laptops and tablets — each with a different charging point — is that not an example of staggeringly wasteful, bad design?" — 2015 October 30, Edwin Heathcote, “Design horrors: the bad, the ugly and the dysfunctional”, in Financial Times:

"“But the infrastructure is like spaghetti,” he continued. “It’s chaotic, it doesn’t connect up and there’s no cohesive network. If you can get that right, it will eliminate a lot of confusion.”" — 2021 October 4, Liz Alderman, quoting Mikael Colville-Andersen, “As bikers throng the streets, ‘it’s like Paris is in anarchy’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2023:

"The lands along the Danube, by contrast, seemed wide open. That is, if he could find his way through them. “Arrows drawn on maps build up into an astonishing spaghetti of population movement,” Mr. Winder writes, and a single city like Lviv, now in Ukraine, might also have been called Lemberg, Lemberik, Lwow or Lvov." — 2014 February 10, Stephen Heyman, “A Literary Tour on the Blue Danube”, in The New York Times:

"In an age when the charts have become an algorithmic spaghetti of streaming plays, radio and downloads, the purest way of measuring who is up and who is down in pop might be the Billboard Social 50, a sub-chart that measures reach across social networks." — 2017 May 23, Gavin Haynes, “Why BTS are the K-pop kings of social media”, in The Guardian:

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