Example Sentences

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While you could crush up smooth, waferlike rice crackers for this, the shrimp cakes won’t be quite as airy.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

But Mason’s characters, too, are uncompelling compared to his plot, the waferlike concoctions of technothriller convenience, their superpowers perfunctorily deepened with a side serving of regret.

From Slate • May 25, 2017

Adventures in a Sinister Wonderland “Eat,” the White Queen barks, as you wonder what to do with the waferlike snack she has handed you.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2013

The tea table, set with a snowy doth, glittered invitingly, its silver and porcelain, its plates of dainty sandwiches and thin waferlike cookies—Wing Sam's specialty—enticingly displayed.

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward

"Normally I am fathomless compared to the thin, waferlike quality of my improfundity as I flickered to the floor after that dreadful pressure was removed."

From Half-Hours with the Idiot by Bangs, John Kendrick