saucy
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I haven’t yet executed this masterpiece — I need to be in the right mood, saucy enough — but perhaps this week is the week.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025
It consists of two layers of moist sponge cake smothered in custard filling and whipped cream that’s then topped with a glorious spread of saucy strawberries and dollops of extra whipped cream.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2025
Lola Young, “Messy” From the nation — not to mention the performing arts academy — that brought you “Rehab” comes another instant classic of saucy throwback soul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
Tofu is a truly versatile protein, making it equally capable of being a crispy, saucy centerpiece or a subtle side.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
More than once the air has been filled with the van Daans’ admonitions and my saucy replies.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Green has a toothier texture and fresher flavor; red is saucier with dusky, earthen undertones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
It is launching improvements to its burgers including softer buns that are toasted and saucier Big Macs.
From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023
On the flip side, Stefanelli prefers fresh pasta in smoother, saucier dishes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
Here, you'll find traditional methods for cooking risotto in a large skillet or saucier, as well as a modern-day technique, which calls for cooking risotto in an Instant Pot.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2022
Mrs. Wellington," he said at length, "you have a saucier par excellence.
From Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport by J. V. McFall
Ernst Lubitsch is best remembered today for directing some of the wittiest, sauciest Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and ’40s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
I mean, the tuba players are always the sauciest ones in the band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
Shirky’s was only the sauciest form of an argument I heard whenever I mentioned to my techno-utopian friends that I identified with Carr’s distress.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2018
What emerges from the churning wash of “Travesties” is one of the sweetest, sauciest and strangest defenses of art ever to land on a stage.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
He is a rustic wit—a sort of Robin Goodfellow—the sauciest, idlest, cleverest, best-natured boy in the parish; always foremost in mischief, and always ready to do a good turn.
From Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford
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