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How to use chocolate in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Chocolate means a food made from ground roasted cocoa beans. Example: “Chocolate is a very popular treat.”

Examples of chocolate by meaning

nounA food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

  • Chocolate is a very popular treat.
  • In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 62

nounA single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

  • He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.
  • Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242

nounA dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

  • As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
  • He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

nounA black person.

  • "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73
  • “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.2011, Ella Campbell, Torn: The Melissa Williams Story, →ISBN, page 69

nounBlackness.

  • Sexy chocolate is what you are.2009, Evangeline Holloway, The Reincarnation of Love, →ISBN, page 83
  • “Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.2012, Harry Davis, My Name Is Lucas, →ISBN

adjectiveBlack (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).

  • She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29
  • Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27
  • If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?2011, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Daily Cornbread, page 200

verbTo treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

  • Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.1992 August, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of...
  • It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843
  • The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.2003, Mark A. Herbert, Haemophilus influenzae Protocols, page 73

More sentences with chocolate

  • We divided the chocolates into tens to hand out to Hallowe'en visitors.From the entry ten
  • What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.From the entry kind
  • Would you please stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?From the entry stir
  • The cake was delicious: half was vanilla and half was chocolate.From the entry half
  • There is half a glass of milk in each pound of chocolate we produce.From the entry glass
  • I ordered hummus for a starter, a steak as the main course, and chocolate cake for dessert.From the entry dessert
  • I went to sneak a chocolate but my dad caught me.From the entry sneak
  • They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.From the entry exquisite
  • I poured a bag of chocolate chips into the cookie dough mixture.From the entry chocolate chip
  • He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies.From the entry hooked
  • The cook combined equal parts chocolate and vanilla batter in the cake.From the entry combined
  • I made a mistake and bought plain digestives instead of chocolate ones.From the entry digestive
  • Jim was munching on his chocolate softie cone with his eyes closed.From the entry softie
  • Thanks for the chocolate cake – it really filled me up!From the entry fill up
  • Elmo looked upon his only granddaughter with kindliness, and often relented to her demands for chocolate.From the entry kindliness
  • The stirrers in the chocolate factory often get chocolate all over their uniforms.From the entry stirrer
  • She unwrapped the slab of chocolate and broke off a piece.From the entry break off
  • We each got double-dips with chocolate on top and strawberry on the bottom.From the entry double-dip
  • Sorry for eating all the chocolates - I couldn't help myself.From the entry help oneself
  • Acme sweets have just brought out a tasty new chocolate bar.From the entry bring out
  • If you're going to the store, could you bring me back some chocolate?From the entry bring back
  • A stringless guitar is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.From the entry stringless
  • We should reconsider the purported salutogenic benefits of chocolate consumption in light of new evidence.From the entry salutogenic
  • Such gustatorial temptations as red chile chocolates, Poire Williams cordials, and coconut-cream truffles.From the entry gustatorial

Meaning of chocolate

  1. noun A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
  2. noun A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
  3. noun A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

Full definition of chocolate

Questions about chocolate in a sentence

How do you use chocolate in a sentence?
Chocolate is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Chocolate is a very popular treat.”
What is a short sentence with chocolate?
“Chocolate is a very popular treat.”
What does chocolate mean?
Chocolate means a food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chocolate (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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