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How to use dumpling in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Dumpling means specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle. Example: “My little dumpling.”

Examples of dumpling by meaning

nounA term of endearment.

  • My little dumpling.

More sentences with dumpling

  • I'll steam up a bunch of dumplings.From the entry steam up
  • I feasted on turkey and dumplings.From the entry feast
  • The men devoured the delicious beef stew, boiled ground food and dumplings then the drinking began.2021, H. M. Hanlan, Jamaica's Plantain Tarts, & Marcus Garvey. From the entry ground food
  • Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.2018, Brent Butt, “Sasquatch Your Language”, in Corner Gas Animated. From the entry poo
  • “Steam fish, bananas, dumplings, gully beans and okra.” “You cooked that kind of food on a Sunday?2016, Austin Mitchell, Uptown Lovers, →ISBN. From the entry gully bean
  • Pull off sections of the dough and shape these into small, walnut-size balls (dumplings or galushki).2016, Fiona Ross, “Butter Dumplings (Galushki)”, in Dining with Leaders, Rebels, Heroes, and Outlaws (Dining with Destiny), Lanham, Md.…. From the entry galushki
  • Try spicy dumplings, fried sea bass with black-bean sauce or the seafood congee.2016 February 17, Elizabeth Chang, “Where to find Washington’s new Chinatown, Little Ethiopia, etc.”, in The Washington Post, Washington…. From the entry black-bean sauce
  • Then took two broadsword corn dumplings from the basket Mother left out on the porch last night.2014 January 7, Joseph Bruchac, On This Long Journey, the Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, the Trail of Tears, 1838, Scholastic…. From the entry broadsword
  • Like Fridays in the Eastern Cape are always dumplings with meat day.2011, Xoliswa Ndoyiya, Ukutya Kwasekhaya: Tastes from Nelson Mandela's Kitchen, page 49. From the entry Xhosa
  • Boil the halusky about 5 minutes, until the dumplings float on top of the water.2011, Francesca Davis DiPiazza, Slovakia in Pictures (Visual Geography Series), Minneapolis, Minn.: Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN…. From the entry halusky
  • My favorite dish was a wonderful broth with pelmeni, Siberian dumplings filled with seasoned chopped meat.2005, Adam Hochschild, Half The Way Home: A Memoir Of Father And Son, page 59. From the entry pelmeni
  • Gyoza is the Japanese version of this type of dumpling and mandoo the Korean version.2005, Mark Bittman, The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home, Double B Publishing…. From the entry mandoo
  • After all, pirozhkies were dumplings, and they were like eating heavy lead dough balls to her.2003, Dorine Trond Kronk, “Reflections”, in Judith H. Simpson, Margaret Lorine, editors, The Kissing Bough, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse…. From the entry pirozhky
  • The friendly Guo Bu Li is known for its Tianjinese steamed dumplings.2003 September, Myra Alperson, “Chinese Flushing”, in Nosh New York: The Food Lover’s Guide to New York City’s Most Delicious…. From the entry Tianjinese
  • They eat stews made with carrots and onions and potatoes and dumplings.2001, Rita Golden Gelman, “New Zealand via Bali”, in Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, 1st paperback edition, New…. From the entry bloke
  • The dish most closely associated with Siberia is pelmeni, meat-filled dumplings.2000, Sydney Schultze, Culture and Customs of Russia, page 66. From the entry pelmeni
  • Seven at night in Tucson, get some bisquick for the dumplings.1997, Wake up and Cook: Kitchen Buddhism in Words and Recipes. From the entry bisquick
  • Salt rising and dumplings have given way to tessellated floors and Chopin nocturnes.1912 March 5, Hugh S. Fullerton, “Eating: A Study in the Preparation, Location, and Mastication of Food, and a Directory of the Principal…. From the entry tesselated
  • We settled on cumin-spiced lamb buns, Moreton Bay bug crystal dumplings and the char siu Ōra King salmon fillet.2021 February, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 37, column 1. From the entry Moreton Bay bug
  • Pierogis: perhaps one of the crown jewels of all dumplings, somewhere between ravioli and gyoza, just below xiaolongbaos and empanadas.2016 December 2–4, Rachel Raczka, “Match point”, in Metro Boston, Boston, Mass., →OCLC, page 11, column 3. From the entry xiaolongbao
  • He did not bother to stand or say goodbye, but instead ordered his servant to bring another plate of dumplings.2016, Scott S. Elliott, “Loki.net – Virgil 3.0”, in Virgil – Released: The Saga of a Distributed Mind, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 193. From the entry safe travels
  • Cepelinai are giant dumplings named for Zeppelin air ships.2014, Jeanne Jacob, The World Cookbook: The Greatest Recipes from Around the Globe. From the entry cepelinas
  • One Chinese New Year, her mom cooked us so many dumplings, I stopped eating them for almost a year.2013, Peter Tieryas Liu, “Thou Shalt Not Live on Bread Alone”, in Bald New World, Alresford, Hants.: Perfect Edge Books, John Hunt…. From the entry jiaozi
  • Akin to a boiled dumpling, gnudis are skinless.2013, Marcy Smothers, Snacks: Adventures in Food, Aisle by Aisle, New York: HarperCollins, page 154. From the entry gnudi
  • Sunny ordered four zongzis or dumplings and, out of tradition, haggled with the woman until they agreed on a price.2011, Daniel Kalla, The Far Side of the Sky: A Novel of Love and Death in Shanghai, Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollins, →ISBN; paperback…. From the entry zongzi
  • Grain or bean salads, boiled dumplings, savory muffins and even Beijing snacks such as xianbing or shaobing are worth consideration.2010 December, Olivia Lee, “Food Flight: Eating healthy on long distance flights”, in beijingkids, page 24. From the entry xianbing
  • The Health Ministry said the dumplings contained a pesticide, methamidophos, which is used in China but is not common in Japan.2008 February 2, Martin Fackler, “Insecticide-Tainted Dumplings From China Sicken 175 in Japan”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry methamidophos
  • Back in Morningside Heights, they feasted on dumplings and bibimbop at the Mill Korean Restaurant, an old favorite.2008 January 27, ZoWolff, “Know-It-Alls on a Riff”, in New York Times. From the entry bibimbop
  • Many dishes show a direct influence of China or India; for example, momos, or Tibetan dumplings, look like Chinese pot-stickers.2007 July 1, “Far East of the U.N.”, in New York Times. From the entry momo
  • Ampesi, intensely flavored stews or soups, are eaten with fufu, a firm, starchy dumpling made from plantains or cocoyam.2007 March 30, “Street Level”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry cocoyam
  • The half-moon dumplings were presented before him in a radial design, and he began to eat them in clockwise order.2007, Angela Mi Young Hur, The Queens of K-Town, MacAdam/Cage, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry mandoo
  • Dumplings, wanton, and spring rolls are typical Han foods.2005, Meri Meredith, “Taiwan”, in Dealing with an International Clientele: Communications, Diplomacy and Etiquette (Information Services…. From the entry wanton
  • To the chagrin of Rose, one of the younger women, Ginger, has never even learned to make perogi, Polish dumplings.1998 December 27, Shirley P. Blackwell, “Enjoyable ‘Pears on a Willow Tree’ is novel of ‘cultural tussle’”, in Sun Journal, New Bern…. From the entry chagrin
  • I think you will find this one good over mashed potatoes, meatless loafs, dumplings, Neatballs (page 10), or prepared seitan.1998, Dionne Stevens, chapter 15, in The First Book of Vegetarian Cooking: More Than 300 Recipes Combining Great Taste with Good…. From the entry meatless loaf
  • It is said that when the earlobe covers the ear canal, the ear resembles a gyōza (dumpling stuffed with minced pork).1992, Eye-Ai, Tokyo: Riverfield, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 1. From the entry gyōza
  • Serve with sour cream, chopped greens and pampushkas (dumplings).1975, V.A. Lotish, S.A. Shalimov, “Ukrainian Borsch”, in Ukrainian Dishes, Kyiv: „Technika“ Publishers. From the entry pampushka
  • His face was as soft and round as a dumpling.1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 11, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry bonelessness
  • At Breaker Breaker, try the pierogi, pyzy (potato dumplings filled with smoked duck), kluski Slaskie with mushroom gravy, rolled pork belly sandwich and strawberry-filled knedle.2026 March 29, Sam Flemming, “From cross-cultural barbecue collabs to Polish comfort food: Atlanta pop-ups you can’t miss this week”, in…. From the entry knedle
  • Even though it is often referred to as the Chinese meat pie, xianbing is, in fact, more similar to an over-sized, seared jiaozi-style dumpling.2023, “Xianbing”, in TasteAtlas, archived from the original on 28 May 2023. From the entry xianbing

Meaning of dumpling

  1. noun Specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.
  2. noun Specifically, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.
  3. noun A term of endearment.

Full definition of dumpling

Questions about dumpling in a sentence

How do you use dumpling in a sentence?
Dumpling is used as a noun. For example: “My little dumpling.”
What is a short sentence with dumpling?
“My little dumpling.”
What does dumpling mean?
Dumpling means specifically, a ball of dough used in stews and other sauced dishes; a thick noodle.

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