Examples of “fry” in a Sentence

verb To cook food in hot oil or fat.

• I like to fry mushrooms in butter with a little garlic.
• She fried the onions until they turned golden brown.
• We fried eggs for breakfast.

verb To damage or destroy something, especially electronics, through excessive heat or electric current (informal).

• If you plug that into the wrong socket, you'll fry the board.
• The power surge fried his laptop charger.

noun A thin strip of fried potato (usually plural: fries).

• He ordered a burger with a side of fries.

noun Young or newly hatched fish.

• Thousands of tiny fry darted through the shallows of the stream.
• The hatchery keeps the fry in shallow tanks until they grow bigger.
• The pond was full of tiny fish fry in early summer.