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How to use scone in a sentence

26 example sentences · noun, verb

Scone means a small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle. Example: “I like to have scones with jam and clotted cream for afternoon tea.”

Examples of scone by meaning

nounA small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

  • Have a scone.1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Reg (John Cleese)

nounFrybread served with honey butter spread on it.

  • Dinner rolls and deep-fried crusty scones that border on loaf-size or juicy fruit pies tagged with county-fair blue ribbons rise from backroad eating sites.1993, Ann Whiting Orton, “A Fork in the Road: Mom-and-Pop Eateries in Far Reaches of Utah Offer Som of the Finest Fair”, in Deseret News

nounThe head.

  • After Essendon coach James Hird tumbled off his bike and hit his scone on the unforgiving South Yarra terrain on Monday night, the chances are he was administered the Cogstate concussion test.2015 July 15, “Cogstate can count on rich pipeline of cognitive test trials”, in The Australian

More sentences with scone

  • I like to have scones with jam and clotted cream for afternoon tea.From the entry clotted cream
  • Ghosts and campfires go hand in hand, so why not feed two birds with one scone?2020, CBC Music, CBC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023. From the entry feed two birds with one scone
  • It had nothing to do with the fact they also made the fluffiest scones she’d ever tasted.2017, Annie O’Neil, Her Hot Highland Doc, London: Mills & Boon, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry raspberry
  • 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
  • I thought I loved scones made the regular way, but that’s before I’d ever had a sconut.2014, Dorothy Kern, Dessert Mashups: Tasty Two-in-One Treats Including Sconuts, S’morescake and Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie, Ulysses Press…. From the entry sconut
  • He picked up the plate of scones and stuffed one whole into his mouth.2013, Scarlett Bailey, Just for Christmas, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry turn-up for the books
  • But coffee ALWAYS tastes better with a DD chocolate glazed doughnut than with a Starbucks ‘scone.’”2008 January 27, “Comments: February 4, 2008”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30…. From the entry dd
  • Afternoon tea includes scones, tarts, finger sandwiches, Victorian spongecakes, tea breads, assorted cookies and jams.1990 November 23, Sharon Thompson, Susan Miller, “Fleur-de-lys restaurant expands dining space, menu”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, metro…. From the entry afternoon tea
  • On Wednesdays, I go shopping, and have buttered scones for tea.1969, Monty Python, “The Lumberjack Song”. From the entry lavat'ry
  • Buck Mulligan slit a steaming scone in two and plastered butter over its smoking pith.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry pith
  • Before the interregnum, the cakes made for weddings had been pathetic offerings, consisting mainly of piles of biscuits and scones.2014, Bruce Montague, Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps, →ISBN. From the entry bunny
  • Traditionalists will adore the Lanesborough on Hyde Park Corner, with its stately decor, toasted teacakes and clotted cream-laden scones.2012 May 29, Time Out Guides Ltd, Time Out London Top 100, Random House, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry teacake
  • Puftaloons are a type of scone dough fried in plenty of hot dripping or a light vegetable oil.1983, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, published 2009, page 484. From the entry puftaloon
  • To remove any dreaded exercise stigma, finding forms of exercise that are fun is a way to feed two birds with one scone.2016, Mark Reinfeld, Healing the Vegan Way, page xviii. From the entry feed two birds with one scone
  • What if the only things that would quash your hunger and cravings were a blueberry and white chocolate scone and a mugaccino?2011, Amanda Sainsbury-Salis, Don’t Go Hungry for Life, Random House Australia, →ISBN. From the entry mugaccino
  • The other night, he stopped by my house to bring me a cup of café mocha and a vanilla-bean scone from the Press & Grind.2010, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Deadly Little Games (A Touch Novel), New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 293. From the entry café mocha
  • Puftaloons are just like scones, only they′re fried in the pan instead of baked in the oven, because we always had plenty of dripping.2002, Marion Houldsworth, Barefoot Through the Bindies: Growing Up in North Queensland in the Early 1900s, published 2012, page 4. From the entry puftaloon
  • They ordered soda scones and sandwiches, Victoria sponge cake and cling peaches, choux pastries and flapjacks, Bakewell tart and trifle with extra cream.1999, Geraldine McCaughrean, “Devil Take the Hindmost”, in The Stones Are Hatching, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press…. From the entry bakewell tart
  • We can’t resist the crumbly, buttery scones (preferably washed down with a nice big cup of cafe mocha) at this supernaturally delicious deli.1998, Scott Williams, Vivienne Heines, The Insiders’ Guide® to the Texas Coastal Bend, Manteo, N.C.: Insiders’ Publishing, →ISBN, page 90…. From the entry cafe mocha
  • The idea for rye scones comes from a Russian recipe for ‘Rye Bulochki’, which are yeast-raised rolls with a texture somewhere between bread and scone.1996, Sue Lawrence, “[Scones] Rum, Raisin and Rye Scone Ring”, in On Baking, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry bulochka
  • Apt decided her visitor's arrival would be a while yet, so went back to her cottage to fetch some sweet-root scones and a woven birch waterbasket of herbal tea.2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise, page 84. From the entry waterbasket
  • On the brunch menu, that can mean anything from scones or toast coated with Marmite yeast extract to burgers in (monkey-free) monkey gland sauce, or frikkadels, South African meatballs.2007 March 18, Seth Kugel, “Sampling a Continent at Home”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry frikkadel
  • Scones, with cream and jam, are then served, followed by cakes and pastries, including lemon loaf, chocolate bread, Victorian sponge cake and fruit and lemon-curd tarts.1990 December 30, Lennie Grimaldi, “New Catering Trend Stirs a Tempest Over Tea Parties”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Victorian sponge cake

Meaning of scone

  1. noun A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
  2. noun Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
  3. noun The head.

Full definition of scone

Questions about scone in a sentence

How do you use scone in a sentence?
Scone is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I like to have scones with jam and clotted cream for afternoon tea.”
What is a short sentence with scone?
“Have a scone.”
What does scone mean?
Scone means a small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.

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