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How to use molasses in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun

Molasses means a thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses. Example: “He really poured on the molasses, charming his audience and changing more than a few votes.”

Examples of molasses by meaning

nounA thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by...

  • Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.1907 February 2, The Chronicle, Adelaide, page 50, column 2
  • A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

nounAnything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.

  • He really poured on the molasses, charming his audience and changing more than a few votes.

nounSomething which moves or works extremely slowly.

  • Though faster than typing, the daisy wheel is molasses compared to dot matrix printers.1990, Norman Schreiber, Your Home Office, New York, N.Y.: Perennial Library, →ISBN, page 91
  • Of course, time was molasses in the cold months that bracketed that very long year; time was monotony.2022, Julia Glass, Vigil Harbor, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 161
  • If your internet is molasses, then you might consider an upgrade.2023 March 3, Shira Ovide, “Four mistakes you’re making that slow down your internet”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The...

More sentences with molasses

  • Nan made a batch of fresh mogs for Christmas—rich with molasses and full of raisins.From the entry mog
  • While chicken is smoking, combine zest, hoisin, pomegranate molasses and sriracha in a small bowl.2007 January 24, “Recipe: Tea-Smoked Chicken Thighs With Pomegranate Glaze”, in The New York Times. From the entry sriracha
  • New England Baked Beans is a mix of molasses, brown sugar and bacon.2002 August 28, Associated Press, “Bean dishes low in fat, packed with flavor”, in The Times, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page AA12, column 1. From the entry New England baked beans
  • These classic, wholesome grahams are sweetened only with honey and molasses, and contain no saturated fat.2001, Vegetarian Times, number 289, page 59. From the entry graham
  • Who’ll have some pryaniki with honey, who’ll have cheap ones with molasses!1996, Richard Taruskin, “[Punch into Pierrot (Petrushka)] Shirokaya Maslenitsa: The Grand Shrovetide”, in Stravinsky and the Russian…. From the entry pryanik
  • The geological subsoil is either moraine and sandy molass or, rarely, clay-rich molass marl.1992, T. Schneider, Acidification Research: Evaluation and Policy Applications, page 451. From the entry molass
  • A second masquerade character used in the play was the Jab Molassi, or molasses devil.1972, Errol Hill, The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre, Austin, Tx.; London: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 109…. From the entry jab molassie
  • Made our molasses into long sweetening and tapped the sugartrees for short sweetening.1959, Leonard W. Roberts, “Jim Couch, His Family Story”, in Up Cutshin & down Greasy: folkways of a Kentucky mountain family, page 8. From the entry short sweetening
  • The main course was fried beef cutlets, followed by tokoroten, a jellied agar garnished with dark molasses, for dessert.2019 January 17, Shingo Masuda, “Discover Asakusa’s charms aboard ‘kimono rickshaws’”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 137th year, number…. From the entry tokoroten
  • There, we picked up some filleted herring and a loaf of Russian borodinskii bread made with rye, barley, molasses and coriander.2014 February 18, Marcia Vanderlip, “Olympic feast: A Russian (and Ukrainian) way to celebrate the athletes in Sochi”, in Columbia Daily…. From the entry borodinskii bread
  • There's cherry bark tea, black strap molasses, sassafras, pawpaw, a pinch of sulfur, an' a little tetch of turpentine in it.2012, Eulie Rier Cienfuegos, At Tildy's Thrift, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry us'uns
  • Yet that was not the first molass stick I had tasted, for my mother had bought me molass sticks before.2007, Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero, page 71. From the entry molass
  • Conestoga axles creaked under their loads as the barrels of molasses and bacon and meal rattled in the wagon beds.2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 32. From the entry Conestoga
  • The dense borodinskii bread, a Pullman-shaped loaf of coarse rye flavored with molasses and coriander seeds, is imported from Brooklyn.1995 May 11, Linda Burum, “Markets: Eastern Europe Meets West Hollywood”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry borodinskii bread
  • Sorghum and sugarcane provided molasses and sugar.1986, Elizabeth Silverthorne, Plantation life in Texas. From the entry short sweetening
  • Mama mixed the old time drink from cold well water, a pinch of ginger, molasses and some vinegar to tarten it.1964, Long Island Forum, volumes 27-29, page 169. From the entry tarten
  • Similar to the way cachaça is produced, rhum agricole is distilled from pure sugarcane juice, rather than molasses (which is a by-product of cane processing).2017, Jeff Cioletti, The Drinkable Globe..., pages 173-174. From the entry rhum agricole
  • Honey, maple sirup or sugar, molasses, and various commercial sirups can well be used in the place of cane or beet sugar.1918 November, “Lesson 121: Sugar-saving desserts and confections”, in The Cornell Reading Course for the Farm Home. Food Series.…. From the entry sirup
  • They combined it with a list of ingredients: rum mixed with hard cider was called stonewall; rum and beer made bogus; rum and molasses made blackstrap.2014, J. Anne Funderburg, Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era, page 311. From the entry bogus
  • Smoked over cherry and mesquite wood, and dried in a convection oven, it gets its flavors from organic blackstrap molasses, Jim Beam bourbon, and salt and pepper.2007 July 25, David Hochman, “For Epicures, a New Take on Jerky”, in New York Times. From the entry blackstrap
  • At carnival he is the leaping, prancing masker, his body daubed with black or blue paint, sometimes with molasses, who threatens to besmear spectators unless they pay him off.1972, Errol Hill, The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre, Austin, Tx.; London: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 109…. From the entry jab molassie
  • Almonds, parched watermelon seeds—esteemed as a great delicacy—spareribs covered with a mixture of molasses sugar, fried fish, chicken livers and century eggs were put on the table at once.1912 November 15, “Chop suey hoax exposed”, in The Mixer & Server, volume 21, number 11, page 35. From the entry century egg
  • Ground into meal, it appeared in a variety of forms, as porridge, hasty pudding, pone, and later as Indian pudding, which was cooked with molasses and was a favorite dish.1948, Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Peacham: The Story of a Vermont Hill Town, pages 68–69. From the entry suppawn

Meaning of molasses

  1. noun A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
  2. noun Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.
  3. noun Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.

Full definition of molasses

Questions about molasses in a sentence

How do you use molasses in a sentence?
Molasses is used as a noun. For example: “He really poured on the molasses, charming his audience and changing more than a few votes.”
What is a short sentence with molasses?
“Sorghum and sugarcane provided molasses and sugar.”
What does molasses mean?
Molasses means a thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.

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