floury
Example Sentences
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Substituting raw wedges of tomato, which far too often can be floury and tasteless, for slow roasted plum tomatoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
To give her clients an easy pizza night without stretching dough or making a floury mess in the kitchen, Strandjord “landed on frozen pizza.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Like boxers who fight bathed in fine dust, these men were filthy white with floury ash.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The singers’ faces are caked in floury white, like Kabuki actors rushed into service before being fully prepared.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2022
Madame Ruelle does something she has never done: she reaches across the counter and cups Marie-Laure’s face in her floury palms.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
