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How to use scrumptious in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Scrumptious means of food: delectable, delicious. Example: “What a scrumptious treat!”

Examples of scrumptious by meaning

adjectiveOf food: delectable, delicious.

  • What a scrumptious treat!

adjectiveOf a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat.

  • Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1

More sentences with scrumptious

  • This onion dip is just scrumptious.From the entry dip
  • Mix them with dried fruit and you have a scrumptious gorp.1981, John Rakowski, Adventure Cycling in Europe […] , Rodale Press, →ISBN, page 280. From the entry gorp
  • She taught the unsuspecting Suzanne such words as ‘fiddlesticks!’, ‘piffle’, ‘scrumplicious’, which, of course, was a mixture of scrumptious and delicious.2016 July 1, Enid Blyton, Last Term: Book 6, volume 6, Hachette Children's Group, →ISBN. From the entry scrumplicious
  • From scrumptious karanjis to ghee-laden anarsas and spiral chaklis, making sweets and savouries during Diwali has been a long-standing tradition.2012 November 13, Reema Gehi, “Mithai as health tonic”, in Times of India. From the entry karanji
  • In the past, I would have eaten nine full-to-the-brim plates of her scrumptious savories — but just fingernailfuls this time.1988 December 29, Sandra Duveau, “Sneaking foods at holiday buffets”, in The Press-Tribune, page B-5. From the entry fingernailful
  • There is nothing to enrich a child's language except a discussion of ‘delumptious’ and ‘scrumplicious’ as mixtures of delicious and scrumptious.1982, Sheila G. Bannister Ray, The Blyton Phenomenon: The Controversy Surrounding the World's Most Successful Children's Writer, 2…. From the entry scrumplicious
  • Scrumptious favorites include the guacamole with pieces of cucumber, radish, and jicama; spicy shrimp tacos; and pork chilorio — a Mexican pulled pork entree.2002, Sam Weller, Secret Chicago: The Unique Guidebook to Chicago's Hidden Sites, Sounds & Tastes, page 158. From the entry chilorio
  • But if you’re tired of the standard greasy, cheesy, dippy, beefy, hot-doggy, doughy fare associated with football watching, let me lay a scrumptious alternative on you.2011 February 4, Sam Venable, “What? The game is still live?”, in Friday News Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn., page A4, column 1. From the entry hot-doggy

Meaning of scrumptious

  1. adjective Of food: delectable, delicious.
  2. adjective Of a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat.
  3. adjective Fastidious, picky.

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Questions about scrumptious in a sentence

How do you use scrumptious in a sentence?
Scrumptious is used as an adjective. For example: “What a scrumptious treat!”
What is a short sentence with scrumptious?
“What a scrumptious treat!”
What does scrumptious mean?
Scrumptious means of food: delectable, delicious.

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