pestle

Example Sentences

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A few had tooth structures that acted like a mortar and pestle and were able to grind in addition to just cutting.

From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023

In a perfect pesto world, that frozen sauce is homemade — a mix of tiny-leafed Genovese basil, Italian pine nuts and good olive oil that you’ve pounded by hand with a mortar and pestle.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2023

A few steps away, Castro pointed out a boulder with a hole in the middle, where long-ago meals of mesquite beans were prepared by tribal members with mortar and pestle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

I poured the chocolate from the mortar and pestle into the tray and allowed it to set at room temperature.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2023

Meanwhile Klenam and I made the fufu, me pounding the steaming plantain and cassava together in the large wooden mortar while she turned and shaped the blended mass adeptly between each stroke of the pestle.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo