saucy
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It’s a rare spot that excels at both minimalist nigiri, where the fish is the star, and saucy, more elaborate rolls.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
I think of it like a little flavor orchestra: saucy, cheesy, meaty, tangy, fresh.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025
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
After graduating in 2011, he debuted the Ooo-We! sauce, a “sweet, spicy, saucy glaze” that he said pairs well with everything from eggs to pork tenderloin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
“I told you we'd die before we ran out of dresses,” said Ruby, and all of her saucy bravado was gone.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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
And he has also put his stamp on some shapes like a wide, two-handled rondeau and a saucier, new to Hestan’s inventory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
Garaetteok, finger-sized cylinders, are the preferred vessel in saucier dishes like tteokbokki.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2021
Never had a southern sky been more blue, never the little curling waves saucier on the Gulf.
From The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Harry A. Mathes
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
June 27 Jason Isbell / Lucinda Williams Isbell is both alt-country’s sauciest Twitter wit and one of its finest, heartrending songwriters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2021
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
Short, crisp black curls, adorning the sauciest little head in the world; wicked brown eyes, fairly twinkling with wickedness; a rosy little mouth, that seemed always laughing to display the little pearly teeth.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
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