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Example sentences for "mushy"

Lexicographically close words:
mushing; mushroom; mushroomed; mushrooms; musht; music; musical; musicale; musicales; musicall
  1. As he spoke he pushed a large tin pan containing mushy potatoes and a fat, disgusting lump of pork, towards Donald.

  2. As far as the eye could discern, the white pans of ice flecked the green of the water, but it was small and mushy and not particularly dangerous.

  3. He was a mushy half-rotten apple that they had squeezed most mercilessly to garner the seeds within his juice.

  4. Yes," says I; "but more or less mushy in spots.

  5. No reg'lar pill distributor would wear around that mushy look that he has on.

  6. Season with salt, and cook until the tomatoes are reduced to a mushy consistency.

  7. When they are sufficiently mashed, season with additional salt, a dash of pepper, and a small piece of butter, and add hot milk until they are thinned to a mushy consistency, but not too soft to stand up well when dropped from a spoon.

  8. The three left the house, the only one of size there, and proceeded down a mushy street between huts and thickets until they came to a little nipa hut set high on poles.

  9. Some are faint impressions in the mushy soil, while some sink in a couple of inches.

  10. Keep the cream hot, and let the slices remain until softened just enough so that the center can be pierced with a fork, but not until at all mushy or broken.

  11. If too soft, they will be mushy and insipid.

  12. The slices should be thoroughly moistened, but not soft and mushy nor swimming in cream; indeed, it is better if a little of the crispness still remains.

  13. The trail was filled full and buried, and so soft and mushy was it that although snow-shoes were badly needed they were impossible.

  14. The entire mass becomes mushy and permeated with moisture.

  15. Woe betide the tree with rotten heart wood or mushy anchorage!

  16. Not so different from us humans with mushy creeds that can't stand fast against the shocks of life!

  17. We could do nothing but sympathize and offer to make all sorts of nice, soft, mushy dishes for the Major's sore gums.

  18. There would be no sympathetic words, and no offers of nice, soft, mushy things to eat for a man nearly ninety, who could so flagrantly violate the ordinary Scotch traditions with regard to teething.

  19. On a soft and mushy trail like this, where every footstep punched a hole in the loose snow, the dogs could not travel with any extra weight.

  20. It became so soft and mushy that though snowshoes were needed, they could not be worn on account of the heavy snow which clung to them every time a foot was lifted.

  21. All the flavor is retained, the product is not cooked to a mushy pulp, and the labor and time needed for the canning are less than in any other method.

  22. This slow method of cooling not only tends to create "flat sour," but it is apt to result in cloudy-looking jars and in mushy vegetables.

  23. If you wait until the water comes back to a boil, you will scald the product too long and have mushy tomatoes.

  24. The lentils are best steamed, as they can thus be thoroughly cooked without becoming mushy or burnt.

  25. They can be used in place of toast, and are very suitable to eat with porridge or any food which may be rather mushy alone.

  26. The more different kinds there are the better, but care must be taken to give each just the proper amount of cooking and no more, or the result will be that by the time certain things are done, others will be mushy and insipid.

  27. Cook slowly until the plums are mushy and the entire mixture is thick.

  28. In addition, the fruit should be thoroughly ripe, but not mushy nor overripe.

  29. They will therefore be much more likely to crush and give the finished product a mushy appearance than if a smaller quantity, which will form a thinner layer, is cooked each time.

  30. I has to snicker too when Cousin Inez floats in, smilin' mushy as usual.

  31. Between the lines I gathers enough to guess that before she hooked up with Ferdy, the head-achy one, Marjorie had been some mushy over Brooks boy herself.

  32. And the retiring landlord of Smyrna tavern stormed out and plodded away down the mushy highway.

  33. Twelve women in single file were picking their way across the mushy street piled with soft March snow.

  34. The road curved sharply there to avoid "the Pugwash," as a particularly mushy and malodorous bog was called in local terminology.

  35. The three men unhitched each his own team, and drove slowly, in single file, along the mushy highway.

  36. It is best to take the mushy foods with milk and a little salt or with butter.

  37. Those who eat such mushy foods as oatmeal and cream of wheat usually take milk or cream and sugar with them.

  38. Mushy starches dressed with rich milk and sugar are responsible for a large per cent.

  39. The objection to all mushy foods is that they are hardly ever properly masticated.

  40. This is how it comes about: A child eats more than can be digested, generally bolting the food, which is often of a mushy character.

  41. Nothing should be eaten with mushy starches except a little butter and salt.

  42. It wasn't just the mushy sentiment of a convalescent, either.

  43. These are all the mushy theories of sentimentalists.

  44. This produces a soft mushy cheese which sometimes is "acidy" or sour.

  45. If the curd is not sufficiently pressed, the masses become mushy or pasty during the working process.

  46. A glance at the mushy mess, Alfred's eyes fell on the two men opposite him.

  47. Nor had he barely been reduced to a state of nudity when some unregenerate in the river below let fly a lump of soft, mushy mud, large as a gourd.

  48. As he ended the song, his eyes closed, imitating the old maid, something soft and mushy struck him on the breast of his white shirt.

  49. There was a good deal of water on the ice in some places, and the snow was mushy everywhere on it and it was pretty bad walking.

  50. Well, it was pretty mushy when we started across the river.

  51. Probably I did, for the last person in the world you'd look for anything like mushy sentiments from would be Old Hickory Ellins.

  52. There is Vincent hung up against the counter gazin' mushy into the dark dangerous orbs of Mirabelle, the box-trade queen.

  53. No mushy sentiment was admissible--the fighting was not over, and the powder must be kept dry.

  54. A struggling sun gave him a bearing from time to time, the sand dunes were sighted, and angling across the course of the wind, the trail of the herd was picked up in the mushy snow.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mushy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.