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How to use toffee in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Toffee means a type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard. Example: “What a load of old toffee!”

Examples of toffee by meaning

nounA small, individual piece of toffee.

  • The tin is 6½ in. high and 4 in. in diameter, and has a domed snap-on lid with knob; it will hold 1 lb. of toffees.1960 June, “A Railway Toffee Tin”, in Railway Magazine, page 398

nounNonsense; rubbish.

  • What a load of old toffee!

verbTo coat in toffee.

  • The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 74
  • But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna
  • Barry's barns and the wine presses and the oak fermentation vessels were blackened and sprung, the wine-sugars toffeeing the floor.2015, Tony Weston, Making a Name, page 93

More sentences with toffee

  • Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.From the entry toffee apple
  • 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
  • Dunkels tend to be moderately hopped, made using dark malts, and offer malty, toffee, chocolate flavours.2014, Gavin D. Smith, Beer: A Global History (The Edible Series), Reaktion Books, →ISBN. From the entry dunkel
  • Pan loafy people can also be very stuffy and toffee nosed and hence arrogant.1993, K Stephen, “Proud to be British?”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet). From the entry pan-loafy
  • She left him alone, and went to get Annie a spin of toffee.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry spin
  • Equally wild is the sticky toffee pudding, the only dessert on the menu and rolling in at the low, low price of £3.2023 May, Peter Simpson, “Skua, Edinburgh”, in The Skinny, number 208, page 61. From the entry cozzie livs
  • Couldn't pull a pint for toffee.2016, Matthew Bulgo, Constellation Street, Oberon Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL. From the entry for toffee
  • Here we would find, perhaps, three 18-pounder guns dug in as antitank defences supplemented by 60 lb "toffee apple" trench mortar bombs buried as makeshift anti-tank mines.2014, Richard Baber, The SOTCW World War I Compendium. From the entry toffee apple

Meaning of toffee

  1. noun A type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
  2. noun A small, individual piece of toffee.
  3. noun Any kind of sweets; candy.

Full definition of toffee

Questions about toffee in a sentence

How do you use toffee in a sentence?
Toffee is used as a noun and verb. For example: “What a load of old toffee!”
What is a short sentence with toffee?
“Couldn't pull a pint for toffee.”
What does toffee mean?
Toffee means a type of chewy confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.

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