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How to use peppermint in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Peppermint means a hybrid herb of the mint family (Mentha × piperita), formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections. Example: “The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.”

Examples of peppermint by meaning

nounAny of various eucalypts of southeastern Australia whose leaves yield peppermint-like essential oils.

  • In the hissing flames, Greenhill and Travers boiled the bark from peppermint gums and roasted their kangaroo-skin jackets.2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 76

More sentences with peppermint

  • The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.From the entry fairyland
  • I love filled chocolates, whether they are liqueurs or peppermints.From the entry filled
  • A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint.2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry Orlando
  • “What happened?” “You drank about a bottle of vodka and ten peppermint schnapps is what happened.2009, Colin Broderick, Orangutan: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry schnapps
  • Maybe even a peppermint tree, broad and moppish and spicy like the ones lining Eliza's street.2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 95. From the entry peppermint tree
  • John Dormouse and his daughter began to sell peppermints and candles.1909, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles. From the entry self-fitting
  • Herbal teas: redbush, rosehip tea, peppermint etc.2015, Sarah Myhill, Sustainable Medicine: whistle-blowing on 21st century medical practice. From the entry redbush
  • As the bristles met her front teeth, she savored the mint flavor on her tongue like peppermint candy.2012, Linda Joffe Hull, The Big Bang, page 13. From the entry Colgate
  • The waitress jotted down two coffees and Nusshörnchen, although I wanted a slice of Linzertorte and peppermint tea.2011, Kris Heywood, chapter 47, in Maria: A Novel, Siskiyou Press, →ISBN, page 378. From the entry linzertorte
  • I dislike peppermint flavouring to this day.2009, Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry Verna
  • As exemplified by a peppermint patty or a bowl of mint chocolate-chip ice cream, mint is the chocolate lover’s herb.2000, Jerry Traunfeld, The Herbfarm Cookbook, Scribner, →ISBN, page 406. From the entry mint chocolate chip
  • In desperation with seasonal sinus flare-up, I pulled out my coconut oil with a drop of peppermint and oil pulled for 20 minutes.2015, Dr. Michelle Coleman, Oil Pulling Revolution. From the entry oil pull
  • “They don’t have peppermint,” I say.2012, Melissa Walker, chapter 26, in Unbreak My Heart, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry mint chocolate chip
  • This smooth, cool, refreshing liquor, tasting of licorice with a soupçon of peppermint, remains the staple drink at Sunday lunch, an eat-till-you-drop extravaganza of small meze dishes.2005 January 25, “The return of arak”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry arak
  • In the plots where black peppermint were planted as inter-row crop, there were 4 rows of Citronella or other menthas with alternate rows of black peppermint.1976, Agriculture and Agro-industries Journal, volume 9, page 19. From the entry mentha

Meaning of peppermint

  1. noun A hybrid herb of the mint family (Mentha × piperita), formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections.
  2. noun Any of various eucalypts of southeastern Australia whose leaves yield peppermint-like essential oils.
  3. noun Any of various sweets containing extract of the peppermint herb; peppermint confectionery.

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Questions about peppermint in a sentence

How do you use peppermint in a sentence?
Peppermint is used as a noun. For example: “The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.”
What is a short sentence with peppermint?
““They don’t have peppermint,” I say.”
What does peppermint mean?
Peppermint means a hybrid herb of the mint family (Mentha × piperita), formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections.

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