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How to use mash in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Mash means a mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Example: “We had fun mashing apples in a mill.”

Examples of mash by meaning

verbTo convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.

  • We had fun mashing apples in a mill.
  • The potatoes need to be mashed.

verbTo prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

  • He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

verbTo press down hard (on).

  • to mash on a bicycle pedal

nounA gun.

  • If the mash empty, tell boy reload it2023 August 24, “Dri-Fit”, SWiTCH (lyrics)GRM Daily, 0:54

More sentences with mash

  • However the mechanical expression of juice led to an improvement of the solutes extraction from mash.From the entry expression
  • I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.From the entry stuff
  • He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.From the entry mound
  • The filtered extract of the mash is the feedstock for the fermenter.From the entry feedstock
  • She has mashed potatoes as a sidedish every day for lunch.From the entry sidedish
  • She has mashed potatoes as a side dish every day for lunch.From the entry side dish
  • The car accident mashed up my legs, now I'm never going to walk again.From the entry mash up
  • Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.From the entry pie
  • Give me a double serving of mashed potatoes.From the entry double
  • Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.From the entry roast
  • These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty.From the entry pasty
  • Give me a triple serving of mashed potatoes.From the entry triple
  • These mashed potatoes have a floury texture.From the entry floury
  • He put brown sauce on the mashed potatoes.From the entry brown sauce
  • Mashed potatoes is (or are) my favorite starch dish.From the entry mashed potatoes
  • The DJ mashed up Britney Spears and Daft Punk.From the entry mash up
  • My seven-year-old son always digs a hole in the middle of his mashed potatoes and fills it with gravy before he starts to eat them.From the entry dig
  • Deke mashed a wad of stinkbait onto the treble hook, then rinsed his fingers in the water to reduce the foul stench before lifting his beer can.From the entry stinkbait
  • Serve the country fried steaks with mashed potatoes, gravy, and your favorite vegetable on the side.2023, Katy Lyons, Nashville Tennessee Recipes, page 55. From the entry country-fried
  • As a kid I button mashed my way through Super Smash Bros.2023, Carmen Maria Machado, J. Robert Lennon, Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games. From the entry button mash
  • The consistency of powidl is only achieved by evaporating water from the overcooked fruit mash.2021 December 8, Józef Hernik, Maria Walczycka, Edward Sankowski, Betty J. Harris, Cultural Heritage—Possibilities for Land-Centered…. From the entry powidl
  • Perfectly crispy on the outside and mashed potatoey on the interior.2021 March 2, David Sachs, “It’s prime rib night at the local municipal golf course”, in Denverite, Denver, Colo.: Colorado Public Radio…. From the entry mashed potatoey
  • Thick crust, not shy on salt, mashed potato-y in the middle, and paired with a blended margarita.2021 March 11, Celina Garcia, “[Santa Barbara’s Burger Week Is Back] Little Kitchen: The LK Burger”, in Santa Barbara Independent, Santa…. From the entry mashed potato-y
  • Serve mushroom Bourguignon over polenta, noodles or mashed potatoes, topped with fried mushrooms and parsley.2020 January 1, Melissa Clark, “Mushroom Bourguignon”, in New York Times Cooking, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry bourguignon
  • I believe I want a steak, well done, steamed broccoli and a mashed potato.2019 December 27, Michael Fountain, “The Cruise”, in Brass September, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, book 2. From the entry mashed potato
  • What does that mean, you cupcaked her?” “You know, like I mashed a cupcake on her.2018, Alex Grecian, The Saint of Wolves and Butchers, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN. From the entry cupcake
  • The cake was so moist and the icing was extra “mashed potatoey” (sorry, Gary).2017 January/February, Lora Abernathy, “That’s the icing on the cake”, in Salt, Wilmington, Oh.: Civitas Media, LLC, via Issuu or…. From the entry mashed potatoey
  • Some were soft and yielded mashed potato-y goodness; others were crunchy wonders.2017 October 13, Nancy Nichols, “French Fry-Day: Wingstop”, in D Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2017. From the entry mashed potato-y
  • Unlike rum, it has a healthy dose of red rice added to the mash.2015, Matthew Rowley, Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from a Bootlegger's Manual, The Countryman Press, →ISBN. From the entry arrack
  • She was waiting for him to give her a handful of mash, and he did.2015, Alain Poissant, The Fate of Bonté III. From the entry eat out of the palm of someone's hand
  • Tha’ll help me make a bit of dinner for tonight with a few mash potatoes.2011, Kathleen Doyle, “Fish and Chips”, in What Ma Always Said: […], Dublin: Poolbeg Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry mash potato
  • Take a piece of a stick of dynamite and mash it up in their feed.2011, Foxfire Fund, Inc., Eliot Wigginton, Foxfire 4. From the entry spiriten
  • He is a portly man, though he lives on pottage and mashes.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 328. From the entry pottage
  • Interestingly enough, while Gilly usually tries do the mash potato, this time he went with a waltz.2009, Jarrod Kimber, The Year of the Balls 2008: A Disrespective, page 39. From the entry mash potato
  • A soft odor of chicken scratch, mash, and manure always permeated the air when you approached.2008, Richard Dwight Apgar, Tough Shit, Eliot: A Yank's Tale, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry chicken scratch

Meaning of mash

  1. noun A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
  2. noun Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
  3. noun Mashed potatoes.

Full definition of mash

Questions about mash in a sentence

How do you use mash in a sentence?
Mash is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We had fun mashing apples in a mill.”
What is a short sentence with mash?
“The potatoes need to be mashed.”
What does mash mean?
Mash means a mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mash (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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