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How to use charlotte in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Charlotte means a dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit, and cream or custard. Example: “For desserts there were “airy pie,” charlottes, mousses, kissel, plombir and “zephyrs.””

More sentences with charlotte

  • For desserts there were “airy pie,” charlottes, mousses, kissel, plombir and “zephyrs.”2003, Valentina Antonievna Seletzky, “The Evgoschino Interlude”, in Mosaic: A Child’s Recollections of the Russian Revolution, Lincoln…. From the entry zephyr
  • Charlotte needed “cross-town boulevards” to relieve congestion on uptown streets.2011, Douglas Houck, Historic Charlotte County: An Illustrated History, HPN Books, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry uptown
  • Charlotte Haze is spared Quilty's fate because she is, from the beginning, not a mirage but an oppressive, dull, untransfigurable reality.2010, Lucy Maddox, Nabokov's Novels in English, page 71. From the entry untransfigurable
  • CHARLOTTE GIBBONS AND CLARINDA MAC LOW (Friday and Saturday) Ms.2008 February 1, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry noninevitability
  • Charlotte Peed, as Miss Prism, also gives a solid performance.1988 February 21, Paul Dixon, “Earnest It Is”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 31, page 6. From the entry trippingly
  • Charlotte made herself stiff, controlling sudden choking emotion.1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, page 42. From the entry choke
  • "Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard," said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl.1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web. From the entry fern
  • Charlotte was matched against a girl from California.1917 July, George Weston, chapter VI, in The Apple-tree Girl: The Story of Little Miss Moses, who Led Herself into the Promised Land…. From the entry caddy
  • Attributed to Carême, the well-known 19th-century chef, mousselike charlottes were held together with gelatin and often set in molds lined with ladyfingers.2009 June 21, Amanda Hesser, “Strawberry Charlotte, 1947”, in New York Times. From the entry mousselike
  • Charlotte thought the spelling of “Treatzz” was an abomination, but they made good ice cream, which you could get sandwiched between cookies or in a bubble waffle.2023, Jackie Lau, Cider Bar Sisters: The Complete Series, [self-published], →ISBN, page 329. From the entry bubble waffle

Meaning of charlotte

  1. noun A dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit, and cream or custard.

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Questions about charlotte in a sentence

How do you use charlotte in a sentence?
Charlotte is used as a noun. For example: “For desserts there were “airy pie,” charlottes, mousses, kissel, plombir and “zephyrs.””
What is a short sentence with charlotte?
“Charlotte made herself stiff, controlling sudden choking emotion.”
What does charlotte mean?
Charlotte means a dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit, and cream or custard.

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