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How to use mush in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Mush means a somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. Example: “Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?”

Examples of mush by meaning

nounThe foam of a breaker.

  • Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.2008, Bucky McMahon, Night Diver, page 80

nounA gun.

  • Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?

verbTo squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.

  • He mushed the ingredients together.

nounCornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.

  • However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.2007, Andrew F. Smith, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink

interjectionA directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

  • "Mush!" he shouted.1903 July, Jack London, “The Toil of Trace and Trail”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &...

verbTo walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

  • You in the mood to mush?2019, Bob Smiley, “Cocaine Pills and Pony Meat” (17:50 from the start), in Victor Nelli Jr., director, Atypical, season 3, episode 3...

verbTo drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.

  • They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4

noun(US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.

  • Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.
  • "Hey, Mush!" Tony Pellegrino called to Michael standing on the other side of the street.2018, Brenda Spalding, Bottle Alley, Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 1

More sentences with mush

  • My baby's food needs to be mushed up before she can eat it.From the entry mush up
  • "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.From the entry sled
  • In the face of velocitized steel, even the strongest among us are mush.2016, Mary Roach, Grunt, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry velocitize
  • This isn't that boring brown lentil mush you find in places where food goes to die.2014, Thug Kitchen, Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F**k, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry next-level
  • He had a mayorly appearance, but he spoke as if his mouth was full of oatmeal mush.2011, Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life. From the entry mayorly
  • “I thought we would have sausage sandwiches and this apple mush.2005, C. Jacob, Destiny Or Deceit. From the entry apple-mush
  • Rachel didn’t even look at the melting, milkshaky mush it had turned into, let alone eat it.2004, Karen McCombie, Meet the Real World, Rachel (Stella Etc.), Scholastic, →ISBN, pages 137–138. From the entry milkshaky
  • The wedding ceremony consists of hairwashings in yucca-root water and eating marriage mush from a wedding basket.1933, Mrs. White Mountain Smith [i.e., Dama Margaret Smith], Indian Tribes of the Southwest, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press…. From the entry hairwashing
  • The cake slices were toppled and mushed, mostly uneaten.2021, Hermione Hoby, Virtue, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 97. From the entry cake slice
  • The rope had scraped Jon’s palms to a hamburgery mush.2019, Doug Bock Clark, The Last Whalers: The Life of an Endangered Tribe in a Land Left Behind, John Murray, →ISBN. From the entry hamburgery
  • I spat the orange and yellow mush into a Kleenex.2012, Evan Kuhlman, chapter 40, in Brother from a Box, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 212. From the entry eww
  • Sally offered her mother a spoonful of apple mush.2007, Joy Dettman, Goose Girl. From the entry apple-mush
  • Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 38. From the entry laterite
  • He's got the clue 'corn mush.' The answer is 'samp.' Then there's 'dwarf buffalo.' The answer is 'anoa.' It's laughable.20 March 1988, Sam Hodges, “Puzzlers Exchanging A Lot Of Cross Words”, in Orlando Sentinel. From the entry crosswordese
  • By the time the chip has turned to mush in your mouth, you're left with that traditional chip flavor, but a waffly taste still lingers.2013 February 12, Kim Bhasin, “We Tasted Lay's Crazy New 'Chicken & Waffles' Potato Chips — Here's The Verdict”, in Business Insider, New…. From the entry waffly
  • Incidentally (and digressingly), the word “wreck” has a certain singular significance in mushing circles, if you've been around the game as long as I have.2013, Jim Lanier, Beyond Ophir. From the entry digressingly
  • Originating in Europe as off-season training for the mushing (sledding) community, it has become popular as a stand-alone sport all over Europe, especially in the UK.2014, Guillaume de Lavigne, THE DRAFT DOG, past and present, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry canicross
  • The vavver mush pulls out a chiv and penned he would mor Joey's dadrus, but his dai got the yogger out and shot the mush in one leg.1984, Thomas Alan Acton, Donald Kenrick, Romani Rokkeripen To-divvus: The English Romani Dialect and Its Contemporary Social, Educational…. From the entry yogger

Meaning of mush

  1. noun A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
  2. noun A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
  3. noun The foam of a breaker.

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Questions about mush in a sentence

How do you use mush in a sentence?
Mush is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?”
What is a short sentence with mush?
“"Mush!" he shouted.”
What does mush mean?
Mush means a somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mush (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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