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How to use muffin in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Muffin means a type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten. Example: “I love you, muffin!”

Examples of muffin by meaning

nounA type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.

  • “A cup of tea and a muffin, please,” he ordered.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC

nounA cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but...

  • Aubrey got a bowl of soup, a cup of coffee, beef stew, and bran muffins, and took them to an empty seat by the window.1919, Christopher Morley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC
  • Carfry, with her usual acuteness, had run them down and sent them an invitation to dine; and it was over this invitation that May Archer was wrinkling her brows across the tea and muffins.1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • The muffins can be frozen if unfrosted, but do not freeze the frosting.2017, Maria Emmerich, Keto Comfort Foods, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 58

nounTerm of endearment.

  • I love you, muffin!

nounA mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program...

  • The Java Web Start implementation honors this legacy by naming the pairs "muffins."2001 May 30, “Technical Articles and Tips”, in Sun Developer Network, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2008, JNLP and Java Web Start

verbTo eat muffins.

  • And now comes a recipe guaranteed to keep the family happily muffined.1965 October 12, “Gingerbread Muffins Start Day Off Right”, in The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta., page 39
  • HAVE YOU muffined out, had more than your share of croissants?1988 February 28, Bea Lewis, “For Teatime Or Anytime”, in The Newsday Magazine, page 35
  • We met about 8:00 A.M. for the usual continental breakfast – I am getting over muffined!2005, Marlin E. Misner, editor, History of the Reagan Home: The Boyhood Home in Dixon, Illinois, →ISBN, page 35

verbTo feed muffins to.

  • We were caffeined and muffined and then asked to seat ourselves at any of several large round tables.1999, Working Woman, page 96
  • Grandma Bessie saw me and muffined me.2023, Earl Laman, chapter 20, in Being With…, Meadville, Pa.: Fulton Books, →ISBN

verbTo become like a muffin; to increase in size.

  • A pale band of flesh muffined up over her shorts, her lively top not quite up to the task of covering it, and Chrissy tugged at the fabric ineffectively.2009 August, Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day for Sorry, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 48
  • In spite of wearing the largest size of body armor available, her ample breasts were simply much too big, and deliciously muffined over the top.2009 December, James Axler [house name; Nick Pollotta], “Prologue”, in Time Castaways (Deathlands), Worldwide Library, page 16
  • Baby fat muffined over the top of Rebecca’s jeans.2013, E[lizabeth] F[rancine] Winters, chapter 15, in Sharks and Minnows (book one of The Jolie Chronicles), Kenspeckle Productions, LLC...

verbTo make like a muffin.

  • Twanty-two harrin’ and t’ree ship’s biscuits, muffined like!1920, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 418
  • Toques high as Queen Mary’s or low as a pillbox, extended and thickened and muffined at the edge.1944, Harper’s Bazaar, page 63
  • Muffined Eggs with Mushrooms1990, Caleb Pirtle, The Land Where We Belong, Leisure Time Publishing, →ISBN, page 91

More sentences with muffin

  • Muffins are tastiest when butter seeps into all the nooks and crannies.From the entry crannies
  • “I didn’t think you could make muffin worse, but you did it.2017 October 23, JB Salsbury, “Braeden”, in The Final Fight (Fighting; 8), published 2023, →ISBN. From the entry muff
  • These scuffins—part scone, part muffin—are so beyond delicious, rich, and decadent they could easily be dessert.2017, Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie’s Home Cooking, Oxmoor House. From the entry scuffin
  • A breakfast highlight is the “bruffin”, a delicious but caloric muffin crossed with a brioche.2016 March 7, Evening Standard, page 53. From the entry bruffin
  • American muffins are chemically leavened, enriched, semi-sweet quickbreads baked in individual portions.2015, Darra Goldstein, editor, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, page 465. From the entry American muffin
  • Paula mused over the idea as she took small bites of her nooked and crannied muffin.2012, John M. Garzone, Crazed Control, page 157. From the entry nooked
  • Kellogg also expanded the brand by introducing pancakes, mini waffles, French toast, and muffin tops.2011, Sherri Liberman, American Food by the Decades, page 134. From the entry muffin top
  • We'd get three coffees and three muffins and each would take a turn paying.2006 May 29, PBMJ, “Change...”, in hfx.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 Apr 2026. From the entry Hortons
  • Many a cook knows well the value of poppy seed for muffins and breads.1996 October 13, Joan Lee Faust, “Hooked, Winged or Eaten, Seeds Get Around”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry poppy seed
  • Molly’s Muffinery serves ‘duffins’ — a cross between jelly doughnuts and muffins.1988 August 28, Times Colonist, 130th year, number 255, Victoria, B.C., page M4. From the entry duffin
  • You can enjoy spinach added to salads, smoothies, muffins, sautéed in stir fries, soups, and in pesto,” Al Bochi said.2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2025. From the entry sautéed
  • Nineteenth-century editions of Cassel's Dictionary of Cookery, published in London, defined the "American muffin" as a "yeast-raised griddle bread."2017, Stella Parks, Brave Tart: Iconic American Desserts. From the entry American muffin
  • We now have crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively).2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry brookie
  • They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of.2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10. From the entry brookie
  • “A cruffin is part croissant part muffin and a bruffin is part brioche and part muffin,” I replied.2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10. From the entry bruffin
  • “Something only ants like,” Alyssa explained, thinking of the muffin.2015, Valentine McKay-Riddell, The River Goddess and Other Stories: - Page 87. From the entry antish
  • Tea cakes, gingerbread, muffins, and the like, and on hot summer days, a big waterbucket full of lemonade.2015, Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher, The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, a Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead…. From the entry waterbucket
  • Rina's resolve could stand firm against a bakeryful of muffins and a sea of marmalade—but against hot chocolate?2014, Ruth Owen, Gambler's Daughter. From the entry bakeryful
  • There was no time to make blueberry muffins; they made do with “Couplands” chocolate chippies and sultana biscuits.2014, Judy Boyd, Our Fortunate Lives, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry chocolate chippie
  • Grandma makes bran muffins that taste like sawdust.2012, Fran Kimmel, “Joey”, in The Shore Girl, NeWest Press, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry grandsonly
  • These applesaucy muffins with apricot are so fruity-sweet!2011, Jean Paré, “Apple-Cot Muffins”, in Kids Snack ’n’ Bake, Edmonton, Alta.: Company’s Coming Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry applesaucy
  • 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
  • An assistant arrived with a wheeled cart bearing coffee in an Erlenmeyer flask, cups, and a plate of strange muffins.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 265. From the entry Erlenmeyer flask

Meaning of muffin

  1. noun A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.
  2. noun A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).
  3. noun Term of endearment.

Full definition of muffin

Questions about muffin in a sentence

How do you use muffin in a sentence?
Muffin is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I love you, muffin!”
What is a short sentence with muffin?
“I love you, muffin!”
What does muffin mean?
Muffin means a type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muffin (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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