floury

Example Sentences

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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

All-purpose flour is the faithful old floury friend that we lean on for pancakes, muffins, and everything in between.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2021

She heard Liza open the oven door and the thump of a kneaded loaf on the floury board.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck