crumb
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The natural leavening gives them a lighter, crispier crust and an airy, mildly tangy crumb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Their hopes of chasing Irish demons from their door had gone, but with a five-metre lineout to come there was a chance of a crumb.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
That sharp crystalline hit against the fudgy crumb makes the chocolate taste deeper.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026
Changes in crumb structure also led to denser bread with reduced softness.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
In about an hour I went back for the tray and he hadn’t touched a crumb.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
I can only imagine that at this point, restaurant waitstaffs across the world have picked up crumbs and slices of chatter about Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 2,700-year-old blockbuster.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
One consequence of this winner-take-all market is that the corporations not at the top of the profit ladder are forced to fight over little more than the crumbs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Certainly, I felt a bit like Odysseus as I crept — drained, disoriented and trailing popcorn crumbs like Ithican sand — out into the sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Who does Clarke play up front - and is there any prospect that whoever it is might have more than crumbs to feed on?
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Then he made his way cautiously through the rest of the house, inspecting the coatrack by the back door, licking crumbs off the linoleum floor under the kitchen table.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
But their fried chicken sandwich — made with crumbed chicken schnitzel, tarragon butter, lettuce and housemade pickle mayo on a steamed potato bun — is their bestseller.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025
When dining out, choose plant-based options that are sautéed, grilled, baked, steamed, boiled or poached – instead of those that are crumbed or battered before deep frying.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
As FTX has crumbed, Mr. Bankman-Fried has been “working constructively with regulators, bankruptcy officials and the company to try to do what’s best for consumers,” he said on Sunday.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
In my Tuscan family, it is only ever prepared one way, as cotolette di agnello fritte: crumbed, deep fried chops squirted with a lemon wedge.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2018
We three were still there around the crumbed table, dizzy with what she’d heard from Upstairs.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Al-Sadr has also been a harsh critic of widespread corruption in the oil-rich country torn by decades of violence, with a crumbing infrastructure, an impoverished majority and lack of basic services.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
Tucked into a hilltop, Pignola is pure Italian charm: crumbing stone buildings and narrow, unnavigable streets.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2018
For four decades, Deshpande has ushered more than 50,000 students into this cramped, derelict building of corrugated metal and crumbing cement.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014
When we got close, Lt Adekunle deployed three men to search the blackened and crumbing building.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2013
Some people succeed better in crumbing fish by sifting the crumbs on to it through a very fine strainer after it is egged.
From Nelson's Home Comforts Thirteenth Edition by Mary Hooper
