syrupy
Example Sentences
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In most standard hydraulic systems, fluid becomes syrupy and can affect everything from aircraft controls to missile launchers and radar masts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
His bone-dry delivery makes it so that the sour is never too sharp and the sentimental is never too syrupy.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
A new bakery cafe has just opened, offering ciabatta and sourdough loaves as well as hot cross buns, syrupy cakes, vegetable quiches and of course coffee.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025
And in between the syrupy overtures of the buyout effort, federal workers are peppered with caustic memos containing head-spinning inconsistencies.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2025
He made her bring him extra portions of rice, or cans of the syrupy fruit they served.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
