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How to use syrupy in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Syrupy means having the taste or consistency of syrup. Example: “The email was so syrupy and overblown that it read like pure glurge.”

Examples of syrupy by meaning

adjectiveWith syrup.

  • Who doesn’t like crisp, hot, buttery-and-syrupy waffles?1919 December, The Griswold Mfg. Co., “Winter days arouse the waffle appetite!”, in Edward W[illiam] Bok, editor, The Ladies’ Home Journal...
  • Cherry dropped into a chair and stared with lip-curling distate at the platter of sausages and their syrupy pancakes on the plates about her.1926 December 21, Anne Austin, “Saint and Sinner”, in Appleton Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis., page eight, column 4
  • Beth stabs her fork into a mound of syrupy waffles.2008, Siobhan Vivian, A Little Friendly Advice, New York, N.Y.: PUSH/Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 209

More sentences with syrupy

  • The email was so syrupy and overblown that it read like pure glurge.From the entry glurge
  • Boil the mixture down to a syrupy consistency.From the entry down
  • When the scent was replaced by the maple syrupy smell of old paper, I opened my eyes.2017, Carol Goodman, The Widow’s House, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry maple syrupy
  • It had like a maple syrupy taste to it and it was nice and thick too.2011, Age Lavelle, Spring Fling 2: Deception (A SmartStreetSwag Novel), Toledo, Oh.: Ageless Publishing, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry maple syrupy
  • Pictures of young lovers creeping up the slope arm-in-arm were published with syrupy thanatopic captions.2003, Peter B. High, Professor David Bordwell, Vance Kepley, The Imperial Screen, page 29. From the entry thanatopic
  • Rum baba, an oozy, syrupy‐sweet standard that has always seemed soggy and insipid to me, still does.1977 December 14, Mimi Sheraton, “For New Bakeries, the Sweet Smell of Success”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry rum baba
  • Hot sauce helps—shrill, vinegary tonics or sweet, syrupy srirachas.2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry pico de gallo
  • Sedgwick won’t be among them, swapping Brenda’s syrupy “thank yew” for an upbeat “buh-bye now” to her co-workers.2012 July 1, T.L. Stanley, “No more crimes for her to solve”, in Los Angeles Times. From the entry yew
  • It's just beautifully smooth and syrupy.2014 May 13, mjhorn, “Chivas Regal”, in Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2015; quoted in Alison Flood…. From the entry banana-ey
  • You can go here for Turkish coffee and terrific desserts — the kadayif, a crisp, syrupy shredded-wheat cake, is incredible — or for a good complete meal.2007 March 4, “Winter Warmers”, in New York Times. From the entry kadayif
  • It was coming up on the cusp of July and August, and he remembered boyhood summers on the mountain's slopes abuzz with blackflies and syrupy heat.2005 June, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN; 1st trade paperback edition, New…. From the entry abuzz
  • She scoops a grassy, barely sweet green-tea sorbet onto white chocolate ganache, and garnishes it with coin-size meringues that break easily, then strings syrupy, candied yuzu zest across it all.2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry yuzu

Meaning of syrupy

  1. adjective Having the taste or consistency of syrup.
  2. adjective With syrup.
  3. adjective Overly sweet.

Full definition of syrupy

Questions about syrupy in a sentence

How do you use syrupy in a sentence?
Syrupy is used as an adjective. For example: “The email was so syrupy and overblown that it read like pure glurge.”
What is a short sentence with syrupy?
“It's just beautifully smooth and syrupy.”
What does syrupy mean?
Syrupy means having the taste or consistency of syrup.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syrupy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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