nutty

Example Sentences

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Begin with a modest roux — butter and flour, cooked together until they smell faintly nutty.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Grace dubs his new friend “Rocky,” and their trans-galactically nutty friendship is one of the most endearing relationships between man and thing since Tom Hanks met Wilson the volleyball in “Cast Away.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Written by Matthew Parkhill, with Guy Ritchie — who directed Robert Downey Jr. in two steroidal Holmes films — helming some episodes, it’s pulpy and nutty and preposterous, mostly in a good way.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

You want real color — the kind that smells savory and faintly nutty.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026

“Where exactly did ‘nutty up, nutty down’ come from?”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko