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• Consider, if you will, the possibility that the sherry glasses were misplaced accidentally.From the entry will
• I filled the cooking pot with water, and poured some cooking sherry into the skillet.From the entry cooking
• Sherry is made by fortifying wine.From the entry fortify
• Add 1 pint of cooking sherry and boil again for 30 minutes.2008, Henry Smith, The Master Book of Soups, page 188. From the entry cooking
• A couple of thimbles had been taken out of the whisky, the gin and the sherry.1999, Alan Wall, Richard Dadd in Bedlam, and Other Stories, Harvill Secker. From the entry Christmas drinker
• Now I am consuming cake and sherry , and trying to sleepify myself.1998, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney, I'll Stand by You: Selected Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 30. From the entry sleepify
• Sherry brought a couple of beers and a plate of deviled ham spread on Ritz crackers.1996 April, anonymous, as told to Cathy Crimmins and Tom Maeder, chapter 1, in Primary Whites: A Novel Look at Right-Wing Politics, West…. From the entry deviled ham
• Served throughout the meal are sherries, red wines, champagnes, and brandies.1988 May 20, Daniel Santow, “Restaurant tours: You loved the movie, now eat the dinner”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on…. From the entry champagne
• It could potentially have been a flogging offence, but the headmaster, bizarrely, offered him a glass of nonalcoholic sherry.2017, Sarah Winterton, The Wintertons Unmuzzled: The Life & Times of Nick & Ann Winterton, Two Westminster Mavericks, Biteback Publishing…. From the entry bizarrely
• Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven.2009, Death in Blackpool (The New Eighth Doctor Adventures; 4.01), Big Finish, publisher's summary. From the entry half cut
• The boxes would reek of the smell of rich plum cake, with brandy or sherry douched over it.1992, Edna O'Brien, chapter 9, in Time and Tide, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 66. From the entry douche
• My father had warned me that the wine would probably be “broken,” a Hungarianism for wine that falls somewhere between vinegar and sherry.2021 May 3, Adam Leith Gollner, “Does Your Wine Really Taste Like Rocks?”, in The New Yorker. From the entry Hungarianism
• They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 235. From the entry riddled
• The air inside smelled antediluvian, regal somehow, with traces of pipe tobacco, tea leaves, cooking sherry, and the earthen aroma of stone architecture.2003, Dan Brown, chapter 54, in The Da Vinci Code, [London]: BCA, published 2005, page 226. From the entry antediluvian
• Mrs Perrone, who has three teenaged children, bought her husband Anthony a Black & Decker shrub-trimmer, and a bottle of Harvey’s Bristol Cream sherry.1976 June 20, Ed Lowe, “Weekend”, in Sunday Newsday, volume 36, number 289, Garden City, N.Y.: Newsday, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 3. From the entry shrub-trimmer
• Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.1902, Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, page 381. From the entry soy
• He moved to the tantalus, poured her a glass of the sherry she preferred, and, holding his own as well, carried the glass of Jerez to her.2019, Stephanie Laurens, A Conquest Impossible to Resist. From the entry Jerez
• He gave Pym sherry and put a hand on his backside in order to propel him to a long window that gave on to a row of council houses.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry fey
• It is enough to mention the succulent ingredients, the sugar and butter, the ground almonds and sherry wine, the currant preserves spread in the bottoms of the patty pans.1983, Patricia Clapp, “Through the Eyes of an Author: Making the Past Come Alive”, in Donna E. Norton, Through the Eyes of a Child: An…. From the entry maid of honor tart

Meaning of sherry

1. noun A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
2. noun A variety of sherry.
3. noun A glass of sherry.

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How do you use sherry in a sentence?

Sherry is used as a noun. For example: “They produce several quality sherries.”

What is a short sentence with sherry?

“They produce several quality sherries.”

What does sherry mean?

Sherry means a fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.