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How to use macaroni in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, adjective

Macaroni means a type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this. Example: “His mom is preparing macaroni cheese for dinner.”

Examples of macaroni by meaning

nounNonsense; meaningless talk.

  • Jam, macaroni, cockadoodle.1924, D. H. Lawrence et al., The Boy in the Bush, page 46

More sentences with macaroni

  • His mom is preparing macaroni cheese for dinner.From the entry macaroni cheese
  • Me: scarfing my daughter’s macaroni and cheese, now chilly, over the sink while halfheartedly rinsing dishes.2015 December 11, Lara Bazelon, “Who Said ‘Game of Thrones’ Wasn’t for Kids?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry scarf
  • These phases are collectively named nuclear pasta (by analogy to the shape of spaghetti, macaroni and lasagna).2013, José A. Pons, Daniele Viganò, Nanda Rea, “Too much "pasta" for pulsars to spin down”, in Nature Physics, volume 9, number 7…. From the entry nuclear pasta
  • Today: chilled macaroni, semolina encasing scrag-end of lamb – couscous – and damp Swiss roll.2012, Kathleen Tynan, Tynan Letters. From the entry scrag-end
  • Italy sends us many queer things besides macaroni and olives and rare old cheeses.1903 November 8, “ODDITIES OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE; Facts Which Do Not Appear in the Treasury's Statistics.”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry nesselrode pudding
  • Nobody uses it, except when you’re making macaroni and cheese.”2016 August 2, Samin Nosrat, “Five Sauces for the Modern Cook”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry roux
  • Yes, there are macaroni noodles, and there is also cheese—but it definitely doesn’t conform to usual notions of mac and cheese.2013, Allison Arevalo, Erin Wade, The Mac + Cheese Cookbook: 50 Simple Recipes from Homeroom, America’s Favorite Mac and Cheese…. From the entry mac and cheesy
  • “Have some of this macaroni salad,” Eric’s sister Debbie was saying as she plopped a heaping servingspoonful onto his plate.2004, Maureen Child, “Lost in Sensation”, in Love—from His Point of View!, Richmond, Surrey: Harlequin Mills & Boon Limited, published…. From the entry servingspoonful
  • He had not, he remarked with crushing causticity to one of his ministers, liberated France ‘to worry about the macaroni ration’.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 65. From the entry causticity
  • Suggestions: Before baking, insert 1½-inch pieces of uncooked macaroni in several of the slits in the top crust.1957, Michael Gore, “All About Pies […]”, in The Encyclopedia of Household Hints and Dollar Stretchers […], Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover…. From the entry overjuicy
  • Inside the soup were a few pieces of carrot, potato, some macaroni, and one chicken paw with three nails on the top of it.2014, Mayumi Yamada-Shimotai, A Japanese Vagabond: Bicycling 35,000 km Around Four Continents 1986-1989, →ISBN. From the entry chicken paw
  • During rehearsals they often lunched vegetarianly together at the Queen’s Restaurant in Sloane Square – apples, cheese, macaroni and salads with chilly milk and soda.1989, Michael Holroyd, chapter III, in Bernard Shaw, 1st American edition, volume II (1898–1918: The Pursuit of Power), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry vegetarianly
  • I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.1963, Sylvia Plath, chapter 14, in The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, published 1971. From the entry wodge
  • Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New…. From the entry paisano
  • And if I 'm late for supper there 's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it.1918 March, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], chapter IV, in The Return of the Soldier, 1st American edition, New York…. From the entry shape

Meaning of macaroni

  1. noun A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this.
  2. noun Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.
  3. noun Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).

Full definition of macaroni

Questions about macaroni in a sentence

How do you use macaroni in a sentence?
Macaroni is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “His mom is preparing macaroni cheese for dinner.”
What is a short sentence with macaroni?
“Jam, macaroni, cockadoodle.”
What does macaroni mean?
Macaroni means a type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: macaroni (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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