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How to use clove in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Clove means a very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree. Example: “The truck clove a path through the ice.”

Examples of clove by meaning

nounOne of the small bulbs that make up the large, compound bulb in garlic, shallots, or similar plants.

  • clove of garlic, garlic clove, clove of a sea-onion, clove of shallot, cloves of bulbs

More sentences with clove

  • The truck clove a path through the ice.From the entry cleave
  • The wings clove the foggy air.From the entry cleave
  • They might also have goat birria, red and earthy from chiles, cinnamon, and cloves.2020, José R. Ralat, American Tacos: A History and Guide, University of Texas Press, →ISBN. From the entry birria
  • Buy garlic cloves by the head; the skin on the outside should feel tight and full.2017 September 12, Joanne Chang, Karen Akunowicz, Myers+chang At Home: Recipes from the Beloved Boston Eatery, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry ggs
  • Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea.2006, Kate Lyons, The Corner of Your Eye. From the entry beetrooty
  • These are silks, porcelain ware, camphor, rhubab, wax, sandalwood, cardamom, cloves and spikenard.2005, Om Prakash, Cultural History of India, New Age International, page 409. From the entry rhubab
  • Ashkenazim use a combination of cloves and bay leaves for besamim, as well as other pickling spices.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 170. From the entry besamim
  • My favorite is the white satin heart-shaped honeymoon love pillow of cloves, mint and rose potpourri.1985, The Herb Quarterly - Issues 25-32, page 45. From the entry love pillow
  • Stud the onion with cloves and add to the pan.2016, Mary Price, Vincent Price, Mary and Vincent Price's Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book, page 70. From the entry stud
  • A rabe hero glistens with a sheen of olive oil and comes on a soft roll, studded with golden-brown garlic cloves.2010, Anthony Di Renzo, Bitter Greens, page 96. From the entry rabe
  • French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.2009, Sara Engram with Katie Luber and Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews…. From the entry piquant
  • Nofi Raranta, 37, the town's main clove dealer, is also the top hunter, employing about a hundred men who comb the surrounding forests for quarry.2017 March, Jennifer S. Holland, “For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 03…. From the entry quarry
  • In Europe cloves from the Indonesian archipelago were prized as a medicine, especially for toothache, as well as a spicer of food and drink.2003, Geoffrey Blainey, A Short History of the World, page 265. From the entry spicer
  • The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 14. From the entry sulcate
  • A compound of galanga, cubebs, sparrow wort, cardamoms, nutmeg, gillyflowers, Indian thistle, laurel seeds, cloves, Persian pepper is made into a drink.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 102. From the entry broth
  • You’ll see its huge foamy head and cloudy amber body, but then you’ll smell two of the most distinctive yeast character in all of beer: banana and clove.2016, James Morton, “Love Beer”, in Brew: The Foolproof Guide to Making World-Class Beer at Home, Quadrille, →ISBN, section “The Style…. From the entry banana-ey
  • He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry botifarra

Meaning of clove

  1. noun A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
  2. noun A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
  3. noun An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

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Questions about clove in a sentence

How do you use clove in a sentence?
Clove is used as a noun. For example: “The truck clove a path through the ice.”
What is a short sentence with clove?
“The wings clove the foggy air.”
What does clove mean?
Clove means a very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

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