🇬🇧 Sample meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To sample means to taste just a small bit of food or drink to see what it’s like and decide if you like it, without eating or drinking the whole thing.

Grandpa said, “Let me just sample your fries,” and then sampled 93% of them.

The robot chef asked me to sample its soup, then wrote in its memory: “Humans make very weird faces.”

My brother likes to sample my dessert so many times that suddenly it becomes his dessert.

At the buffet, I sampled everything until my stomach sent a message: “System overloaded. Please stop.”

I sampled the spicy chili, and my tongue tried to run out of my mouth.

At the sunny market she stood at a small stall. The baker asked if she would sample a warm cookie; she sampled chocolate, sampled almond, sampled sticky caramel, then sampled tart lemon. Each time she sampled, her eyes lit up. She nodded, bought the cookie, and took a slow, happy bite.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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