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How to use malt in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun, verb

Malt means malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise. Example: “The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.”

Examples of malt by meaning

nounA milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

  • Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw.1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 89

More sentences with malt

  • The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.From the entry cut
  • For brewing our bitters we only use pale malt, torrefied wheat, and hops.From the entry torrefied
  • Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.From the entry bring
  • Connoisseurs may prefer to savour their dram of single malt straight up.2025 December 27, “Cocktails in a can are the new frontier for drooping drinks giants”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry dram
  • The distillery will have a Chinese master distiller to produce a malt whisky catering to local tastes.2019 August 29, Dominique Vidalon, “Pernod launches share buyback, new investments in U.S., China”, in Sudip Kar-Gupta, Deepa Babington…. From the entry Emeishan
  • Dunkels tend to be moderately hopped, made using dark malts, and offer malty, toffee, chocolate flavours.2014, Gavin D. Smith, Beer: A Global History (The Edible Series), Reaktion Books, →ISBN. From the entry dunkel
  • Some milkshake recipes included malted milk powder, which would eventually become known as “malteds”.2009, Darcy S O′Neil, Fix the Pumps, page 44. From the entry malted milk
  • The soda clerk′s job was to sell eggs with the malted milk.2009, J. R. Parrish, You Don′t Have to Learn the Hard Way: Making It in the Real World: A Guide for Graduates, page 33. From the entry malted milk
  • The ten-year-old Ardbeg is traditionally considered the saltiest, peatiest malt on Islay (and that's saying something).2004, Matthew Teller, editor, The Rough Guide to Britain, page 1120. From the entry peaty
  • Beer is brewed from grain (cereal), malt, hops, yeast and water.1974 November 25, Frederick Goodridge, “Of fermented malt and grain beverages”, in The Heights, volume LV, number 13, Boston College, page…. From the entry yamless
  • We heart the story, and we double heart the graham cracker-y malt and the dry finish of the Mustang Sally Kolsch.2016 May, Jean Schindler, “New | Notable | No Longer”, in On Tap, volume 18, number 7, Alexandria, Va.: Five O’Clock Publishing, LLC, page…. From the entry graham cracker-y
  • I signaled for our waiter and ordered two Glenlivets, the only single malt they had behind the bar.2015, Andy Nottenkamper, A Rule Not Followed. From the entry signal
  • Madame Eskimoff's tweeny had brought out tea and a gâteau, as well as a twelve-year-old Speyside malt and glasses.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 259. From the entry tweeny
  • For starters, you can get the same brain-stabbing hangover you get from malt liquor at nearly three times the price.2004, Ray James, The Man Show on Tap: A Guide to All Things Beer. From the entry brain-stabbing
  • Drank my first glass of Kvas, made from malt water.1997, Andrew Miller, chapter 5, in Ingenious Pain: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry quenchy
  • He had told Fergus he would ceilidh the night away with the help of Tam McKinnon's home-brewed malt whisky.1983, Christine Marion Fraser, chapter 1, in Children of Rhanna, London: Fontana, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, part I (Winter 1941)…. From the entry ceilidh
  • More to the liking of students, the new menu includes hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fishwiches, pizza, donuts, French fries, malts and coffee.1972, The Nation's Schools, volume 90, page 183. From the entry fishwich
  • For a rich, traditional märzen, consider a base of pilsner malt with up to 50 percent Munich or a blend of Munich, Vienna, and pilsner.2017, Jeff Alworth, The Secrets of Master Brewers: Techniques, Traditions, and Homebrew Recipes for 26 of the World’s Classic Beer Styles…. From the entry märzen
  • German examples will have a snappy, clean, cracker-y malt foundation, while Czech versions are rounder, softer, and often include a caramel element.2017, Dave Carpenter, “[Old World Pale Lagers] German Pilsner”, in Lager: The Definitive Guide to Tasting and Brewing the World’s Most…. From the entry cracker-y
  • European malt, hops, and yeast pay tribute to the classic German festbiers, and its alluring reddish color makes it hard to resist.2014, Ben Keene, The Great Northeast Brewery Tour: Tap into the Best Craft Breweries in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, Voyageur Press…. From the entry festbier
  • Making the wort with nothing but barley malt and hot water is the standard method in Germany, and in many U.S. microbreweries.2004, Harold McGee, “Wine, Beer, and Distilled Spirits”, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, revised edition, New…. From the entry wort
  • As you might expect, the dessert course is the best: bread pudding, apple strudel, brownies, Snickers pie, yogurts, malts, shakes, and ice cream.1993, Gerry Frank, Where to Find It, Buy It, Eat It in New York, page 155. From the entry Snickers pie
  • The Dutch-style Merchant's House, the granary and the malt house are still standing, and the old stevedores' cottages are now private homes.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 369, about Swaffham Bulbeck. From the entry Commercial End
  • Surely very noticeable, those five malted progenitors: probably gatherers of much of the wealth which set up the family, and shoved it by Qu.a. 1920, Louise Imogen Guiney, edited by Grace Guiney, Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney, volume 2, published 1926, page 152. From the entry qu.
  • Will you kindly inform me if malted vinegars that are manufactured from grains are as pure and wholesome to use as pure apple-cider vinegars are?1907 June, Bulletin of the Kansas State Board of Health (Fourth Biennial Report or the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Annual Reports, of…. From the entry apple-cider vinegar
  • As you'd expect, S'mores is a mash up of Sweater Weather, chocolate, toasted marshmallow and graham cracker flavors, with some nice smoky and graham cracker-y brown malts.2020 November 5, Bobby Tanzilo, “Sweater Weather is on its way back to The Fermentorium”, in OnMilwaukee, archived from the original on 05…. From the entry graham cracker-y
  • It has a pale chestnut colour with a herbal, spicy and fresh tobacco aroma with rye bread malt and a powerful sulphur note: the brewing water is Burtonized.2018, Roger Protz, IPA: A legend in our time, →ISBN. From the entry Burtonize
  • Krebs's finest went above and beyond by not only tracking down an original Grodziskie yeast strain from Poland, but also convincing Germany's Weyermann Malts to introduce oak-smoked wheat malt.2015, Jeff Alworth, The Beer Bible, →ISBN, page 351. From the entry Grodziskie
  • She had also forgotten both diet and protocol as she joined Sven in guzzling large cokes, practically inhaling fries and gravy, and rounding off the meal with double malts.2014, Dee Disheau, Love in the Sand and the Snow, page 26. From the entry inhale
  • At dessert time, we skipped the red bean and green tea ice creams, ordering instead a sweet drink, sikhye, made with malt flour, rice and sugar.2011 December 2, Karla Cook, “Korean Barbecue in a Smoke-Filled Room”, in The New York Times. From the entry sikhye
  • I could put the cappuccino machine in that corner of the counter, the one with the single malt whiskies, it would dominate the kitchenscape, draw the eye.1996, Sonja Lyndon, Sylvia Paskin, The Slow Mirror and Other Stories, page 111. From the entry kitchenscape
  • As most of the food is prepackaged and frozen, and anyone can cook a hamburger or make a malted, drive-in payrolls run a full third under those for "walk-ins"1961, “Drive-ins Booming: Highway restaurants now a $6 billion annual business.”, in Financial World, volume 115, page 1060. From the entry walk-in

Meaning of malt

  1. noun Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
  2. noun Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
  3. noun A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

Full definition of malt

Questions about malt in a sentence

How do you use malt in a sentence?
Malt is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.”
What is a short sentence with malt?
“Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.”
What does malt mean?
Malt means malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.

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