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How to use raisin in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Raisin means a dried grape. Example: “How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!”

Examples of raisin by meaning

nounA dried grape.

  • Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.2021 July 18, Christopher Flavelle, “Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

verbOf fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.

  • Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir
  • The ultraripe grapes are usually dried in the sun for a few days so they can raisin and their sugars can be concentrated before they are crushed and pressed.2010, Michael Gibson, The Sommelier Prep Course, page 214
  • Too little and the grapes would raisin.2019, Sinclair Jayne, A Bride for the Texas Cowboy

verbTo flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.

  • We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.2005, Alan King, Matzo Balls for Breakfast, page 183
  • Another liquid—perhaps honey, a berry juice, a raisined or herbal wine—could be poured into the large opening and automatically fed into the interior of the vessel.2019, Patrick E. McGovern, Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture, page 177

verbTo add raisins to.

  • He went then to each customer he had and gave them each a large, sweet, raisined loaf of caky bread.2021, Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

verbTo distribute throughout (with small bits or things), to dot or pepper.

  • It was ground out solemnly in the academies, the University, the press, raisined with scholarly arguments quoted from the French physiocrats and positivists, in French, of course.2010, Anita Brenner, The Wind that Swept Mexico
  • While Mother raisined our oatmeal with niacin tablets and wheatgermed our milk, Opal baked us sugar cakes and sugar cookies, deep-fried us sugar doughnuts.2011, The Georgia Review - Volume 65, page 219
  • I find it helpful to imagine the world as a fullness of varying density, not as a vacuum raisined with corpuscles but as a plenum instead.2019, Stephanie Strickland, Ringing the Changes, page 93

verbTo shrivel.

  • If my heart didn't make a new friend soon, it would raisin and then petrify.2008, Trey Ellis, Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of Single-Fatherhood
  • Beneath a raisined basketball, among nail polish, dead spiders and other junk, I found a faded photograph of Hannah with cropped, spiky red hair and brilliant purple eye shadow painted all the way to her eyebrows.2013, Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
  • My raisined heart is shrinking.2013, Brittany Aguilera, Silent Hurricanes, page 17

verbTo crush or drain, so that all plumpness and vitality is gone.

  • Out in the bean field Shinto was being horribly bullied by horse-flies, and armed with that reflective strip of marker post– still an invaluable humane goad when the sun was in the right position– I raisined four against his loins.2005, Tim Moore, Spanish Steps, page 196
  • And shouldn't we be getting out of here before we get, y'know, raisined or something?'2008, Martin Ed Chatterton, The Brain Full of Holes
  • I haven't seen him since about a week before you got raisined, but Lan saw him just before.2023, Crimpy G, Huntress and The Alpha King

verbTo cause to have wrinkles.

  • She was a bony woman with hollow cheeks, her skin raisined by years of hard labor in the sun.2012, Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth, page 18
  • Before him, a stoic mother, hands raisined from the scrubbing of clothing and children.2016, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed, page 67
  • As her fingers became raisined by the soap suds, she wondered what Eliza was up to.2019, A. S. Kingly, If Stilettos Could Speak

More sentences with raisin

  • How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!From the entry how
  • Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.From the entry grape
  • Nan made a batch of fresh mogs for Christmas—rich with molasses and full of raisins.From the entry mog
  • Watch me catch this raisin in my mouth.From the entry catch
  • Now add the raisins to the mix.From the entry mix
  • We made a compote containing prunes, spronts and raisins.From the entry spront
  • The blintse was a little pocket of delight, sweet raisins combined with the crumbly and savory cheese.2023 August 20, Siddhartha G., “Moscow & Tbilisi Bakery Store”, in Yelp, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2023. From the entry blintse
  • And for a bit of levity, "Asian don't raisin," so, like vampires, we don't age.2022, Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Meg Elison, Uncanny Magazine Issue 45: March/April 2022, page 122. From the entry Asian don't raisin
  • Switch up the carrot for grated apple with a small handful of raisins for apple pie porridge.2020 July 23, Rebecca Wilson, What Mummy Makes: Cook Just Once for You and Your Baby, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry builder's mug
  • Monroe chose a slice of raisin pie and a slice of lemon meringue.2017, Charlotte Hubbard, Weddings at Promise Lodge, Zebra Books, →ISBN. From the entry lemon meringue
  • A bag full of GORP (good ol’ raisins and peanuts) will kick up your energy level fast.2016, Diane Stresing, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Cleveland including Akron and Canton, 3rd edition, Menasha Ridge Press, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry gorp
  • If I'm being more accurate, it's generally passoline rather than raisins and wild fennel rather than cultivated.2016 April 3, Caroline, “Pasta con sarde a mare – 'pasta with sardines at sea'”, in Caroline's Cooking, archived from the original on 19…. From the entry passoline
  • Rich and fruity but light in body with plenty of rich fruitcakey flavors, toffee, and chocolate raisins.2015, Joe Clark, Stuart Derrick, The Ultimate Book of Whiskey: Over 300 Single Malts, Blends, Bourbons and Ryes from Around the World…. From the entry fruitcakey
  • I baked gugelhupfs in great varieties with raisins or with coconut or with chocolate.2009, Adelheid Gomez de Vera, Adelheid: My Autobiography, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 190. From the entry gugelhupf
  • Now they were down to Sun Maid raisins and Sainsbury's Wheat Bisks.2008, Monica Ali, Brick Lane, page 97. From the entry wheat bisk
  • For three days the children had eaten only Wheat Bisks in water and handfuls of raisins.2008, Monica Ali, Brick Lane, page 97. From the entry wheat bisk
  • Poppyseed bagels, sesameseed bagels, plain bagels, onion bagels, garlic bagels, raisin and cinnamon bagels, wholewheat bagels.1997, Lily Brett, In Full View, Sydney, N.S.W.: Picador, published 1998, page 134. From the entry sesameseed
  • Among the recommended desserts are strudel, rogalik and flugen, a Romanian square of walnuts, raisins and honey.1989 June 18, Daniel Young, “I’ll Take-out Manhattan: From Russia, with picnic”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., page M 3. From the entry rogalik
  • They also add passoline, a type of typical Sicilian raisins, different from common dry grapes because is less sweet.“Fish dishes and street food in the Palermo area cuisine”, in Charminly, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2024, retrieved 26 Jul 2026. From the entry passoline
  • Zeppolis are fried dough with raisins coated with sugar.2022, Mary Theresa Policare, Life in the New World: Pittston, Pennsylvania (HB) (page 15). From the entry zeppoli
  • The designs showcased were two structured, sci-fi silhouettes in the Watson-generated colour palette of raisin black and Yankees blue.2017 June 2, Komal Sharma, “Where AI and fashion cross paths”, in liveMint. From the entry raisin black

Meaning of raisin

  1. noun A dried grape.
  2. verb Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.
  3. verb To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.

Full definition of raisin

Questions about raisin in a sentence

How do you use raisin in a sentence?
Raisin is used as a noun and verb. For example: “How should I know whether he likes raisins or not? Ask him!”
What is a short sentence with raisin?
“My raisined heart is shrinking.”
What does raisin mean?
Raisin means a dried grape.

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