How to Use glutinous in a Sentence

glutinous

adjective
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  • The most obvious is a glutinous sweet rice called malagkit.
    — Dorothy Hernandez, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Like many cooks, Ms. Young’s mother always added a little cold water at the end of the mixing process, for a whisper of that glutinous chew.
    — Rachel Wharton, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • So two of the younger roommates cook, emerging an hour later with a glutinous, inedible glop.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2016
  • The drink is assertively sour and limey, with a glutinous texture from the chia seeds that have soaked up the liquid and turned into bouncy little bits.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • There is nothing like the glutinous gutbuster of a sandwich, with three different cheeses.
    — Ed Condran, courant.com, 24 June 2018
  • It's glazed in a lush miso butter and seared to perfection with dueling layers of glutinous flesh and crisp edges.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Also recovered was a glutinous ball of cornmeal wrapped in blue ribbon and white string.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Switch regular wheat flour for cheaper potato flour and the doughnut becomes glutinous and sticks to your teeth.
    — David Pierson, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • Just hope your meal ends with the addictive glutinous black rice porridge, which is gently sweet and pairs well with the longan tea that'll be served alongside it.
    — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Balls of slightly glutinous sweet potato dough are filled with coconut flesh that’s been grated and roasted.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The purple, glutinous dish is a traditional part of Hawaiian cuisine, sold at grocery stores and served in homes and restaurants statewide.
    — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
  • The glutinous substance was actually bread dough, rising like dinner rolls in a pan.
    — Samantha Schmidt, sacbee, 27 July 2017
  • Such product innovation has worked well for KFC, which now lists crayfish burgers and glutinous-rice wings on its menu.
    — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 2 May 2018
  • Because of the high starch content, risotto famously needs to be stirred, to prevent it from congealing into a thick, glutinous mass.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 5 July 2022
  • Families observe this time by enjoying special foods, such as glutinous rice balls known as tang yuan.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 20 Dec. 2016
  • The lime and clay destroy the slimy glutinous character of the sewage ‘sludge’ and keep the sewer outlet drain free from the festering and putrefying deposit which otherwise tends to choke it.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 June 2022
  • This slime is a glutinous, colorful substance adolescents carry around to knead, fold and swirl—at school, at home, everywhere.
    — Ellen Byron, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2017
  • An ingredient with the term glutinous in the title might be misleading, but rest assured, both rice flour and glutinous rice flour are entirely gluten-free.
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2022
  • Too many glutinous books, like too many oysters, are bad for the digestion; and digestive trouble is one of the complaints that bring the sick, or those who fancy themselves to be sickening, to Sanditon.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Interestingly, while rye flour is less glutinous, and thus less structure-protecting, Sycamore Kitchen’s recipe did not produce a thin cookie.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Given the risks, rescue organizers in recent days had prepared some unorthodox rescue plans, such as recruiting locals who climb rocks to harvest birds’ nests to make a sought-after glutinous soup.
    — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, 8 July 2018
  • The tofu itself is remarkably good, fried until the potato starch batter turns simultaneously crisp and glutinous, but the sauce adds a spectrum of flavor from sugary-sweet to inexplicably meaty.
    — Mahira Rivers, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Not much of that clarity, however, is evident in a mind-deadening, 252-page document that lays out the nitty-gritty elements of the bureaucratic changes in bewildering detail, mostly in glutinous prose.
    — George Russell, Fox News, 16 May 2018

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