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Example sentences for "flaky"

Lexicographically close words:
flak; flake; flaked; flakes; flaking; flambe; flambeau; flambeaux; flamboyant; flame
  1. Put the fruits into a fairly deep baking-dish and cover it with a flaky top crust.

  2. Pastry mixtures differ from bread or cake mixtures in that they are flaky instead of spongy.

  3. It is covered with a gray-brown bark, exfoliating in flaky scales.

  4. The bole is vested in a gray-brown, reddish-tinged bark, about an inch thick, and broken into numerous scales which in old age become flaky and pliable and fall off.

  5. This will give you a tender, flaky lower crust.

  6. This method will give you a delicious, flaky crust.

  7. Any little housewife may turn out delicious, flaky pastry if she will but follow directions carefully.

  8. Short pastry differs from the flaky pastries in requiring but one rolling out.

  9. In making flaky pastry, if it has been rolled and folded properly, and not allowed to stick to the board, nor cut so that air can pass through layers, this air when heated in the oven expands and raises the paste in layers or puffs.

  10. All pastry requires to be placed in a hot oven, slightly hotter for flaky than short crust.

  11. Mrs. Smithers, moved to joyful song, did herself proud in the matter of fried chicken and flaky biscuit.

  12. Beneath these stones, and immediately on the flat slabs forming the roof of the tomb, had been placed palm branches, which in the lapse of ages had become white and crumbly, and had assumed the flaky appearance of asbestos.

  13. Roll our some flaky pastry and line some patty pans with it; fill them with rice or crusts of bread, and bake for about ten minutes.

  14. In general, flat and flaky clouds, clouds forming and disappearing rapidly, and clouds changing to forms at a higher level precede dry and cooler weather.

  15. A form which differs from the type in having broader, obovate leaves broadest above the middle and a flaky bark has been described and named Quercus Alexanderi Britton.

  16. Bark flaky or rough-ridged, not warty nor peeling off in papery layers.

  17. Twigs greenish at first, becoming gray-brown, finally gray or brown; thin, silvery gray or ash colored and flaky on the trunk.

  18. Bark smooth, close, warty or peeling into papery layers, but not flaky nor rough-ridged.

  19. There is the ruined water-mill With its rotten wheel, that stands as still As its image that sleeps in the glassy pool Where the water snake coils dim and cool In the flaky light of the setting sun Showering his gold in bullion.

  20. The fresh bread and good butter, and the flaky wedges of apple pie, each flanked by its pilot of cheese, were likewise enjoyed.

  21. The pies were flaky as to crust and the apples which filled them were tender.

  22. It is covered either with flaky or floccose portions of the volva, or with more or less distinct conic white scales, especially toward the center.

  23. Following abortion the discharge is more characteristic, being of a dark-brown color, sometimes even bloody, and contains streaky or flaky pus.

  24. When you want a bite you make a blanket of flaky dough and take it out of the glass can, and then exposure to heat brings it to life in the shape of pie!

  25. Hurry up, and I’ll make the flaky dough blanket in time for supper.

  26. Linda's goddamned boyfriend was into all this flaky Getting to Yes shit, subliminal means of establishing rapport and so on.

  27. It works -- it's flaky and goofy California shit, but it works.

  28. Boil one dozen crabs; pick them in flaky pieces as much as possible; remove the meat from the claws and the fat from the back.

  29. Pour into a flaky crust that has been just baked, and frost with the white of one egg and one tablespoonful sugar; place in hot stove till a delicate brown.

  30. Pastry is a stiff dough with a large proportion of shortening, and is flaky when baked rather than porous.

  31. If you wish light, flaky pie crust, bake in a hot oven.

  32. This is a delicious, light, flaky cake, if directions are closely followed, but a little difficult to get just right.

  33. PIES--FLAKY PIE CRUST Have all the materials cold when making pastry.

  34. Mary's Aunt taught her to make light, flaky pastry and pies of every description.

  35. Have ready some flaky pastry or part plain and part puff paste.

  36. Where are their flaky skins, I should like to know?

  37. Two others assisted him, but instead of breaking the chain, the iron standard of the gate crumbled into so much flaky iron rust, while padlock and attachments swung free upon the other.

  38. The flaky mass was poured into the radiator with fresh water from a canteen; the stuff found the leak and, swelling, stopped it.

  39. On these daily visits she would draw her chair to the side of the great bed--she looked very small below the high buttress of the mattress--and while he quaffed his chicken broth and nibbled his flaky tortillas Benicia would talk.

  40. Salt butter will make a very fine flaky crust, but if for mince pies, or any sweet things, it should first be washed.

  41. Good salt butter well washed, will make a fine flaky crust.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flaky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abnormal; anomalous; apish; arbitrary; asinine; balmy; bananas; bats; beguiled; besotted; brainless; buggy; bugs; capricious; chalky; cockeyed; crank; cranky; crazy; credulous; crotchety; crushed; cuckoo; daft; dazed; different; divergent; dizzy; doting; dumb; dusty; eccentric; erratic; exceptional; fanciful; fantastic; fantastical; farinaceous; fatuous; fine; flaky; flipped; flocculent; fond; fool; foolish; freakish; fruity; fuddled; funny; futile; grated; ground; harebrained; haywire; idiosyncratic; idiotic; imbecile; impalpable; inane; inept; infatuated; insane; irregular; kinky; loony; mad; maggoty; maudlin; mealy; milled; moody; notional; nuts; nutty; odd; peculiar; petulant; potty; powdered; powdery; pulverized; queer; sappy; scabby; scabrous; scaly; screwy; scurfy; senseless; sentimental; shredded; silly; singular; strange; stupid; temperamental; thoughtless; twisted; unconventional; unnatural; unreasonable; vagrant; wanton; wayward; wet; whimsical; witless