How to Use cocktail sauce in a Sentence

cocktail sauce

noun
  • Nothing says summer like shrimp and cocktail sauce.
    — Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Make things even easier on yourself by serving the seafood with a bottled cocktail sauce.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
  • The homemade cocktail sauce is spiked with barbecue sauce to even out the spicy horseradish.
    — Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • When prepared with skill, shrimp can be tender and sweet, perfect for dipping in tangy, piquant cocktail sauce.
    — Kate Williams, AJC.com, 22 June 2026
  • Crispy battered Double Crunch Shrimp, served with cocktail sauce, coleslaw and fries.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • And when dipped in our unique combination of cocktail sauce blended with barbecue sauce, dinner will be anything but bland.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There is also a mariscos and salsa bar, including shrimp, crab legs and oysters with cocktail sauce, and chips with five different salsa options.
    — Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Finally, the crispy battered Double Crunch Shrimp are golden-fried and served with plenty of cocktail sauce.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 11 May 2026
  • The Double Crunch Shrimp also comes with endless classic fries and signature coleslaw, as well as cocktail sauce.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
  • That presents itself in items like oysters on ice, for $22, which contains a half-dozen East Coast oysters, mignonette, cocktail sauce and a lemon.
    — Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The Shrimp & Crab Louie crowns a jiggly horseradish panna cotta layer that seals the cocktail sauce below.
    — Su-Jit Lin, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Swing by around noon for the lunch special—a quarter pound of peel-and-eat shrimp and a North Carolina blue crab cake (Calabash style), with tartar and cocktail sauce on the side.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Founded by entrepreneurs and childhood friends Sara Jemison and Hayden Arnot, Nantucket Crisps offers funky flavors that run the gamut from hot honey to Thanksgiving stuffing to cocktail sauce.
    — Alex Erdekian, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2025
  • As the deep bass from the DJ’s techno beats shook cups of cocktail sauce on a nearby table, Koc, a software engineer by day, gestured to the hundreds of OpenClaw disciples on the dance floor and argued that the excitement was more than just a passing fad.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The event, hosted by the Republican Women’s Club of Miami, is another opportunity for Donalds to share her urgent message about education – all while attendees smear butter on scones, dip shrimp in cocktail sauce, and sip champagne.
    — Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025

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