How to Use honeydew in a Sentence

honeydew

noun
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  • While cantaloupe offers more nutrients, honeydew tends to be sweeter.
    — Johna Burdeos, Health, 2 July 2024
  • Slice the rind off of the honeydew melon and chop the flesh into 1/2-inch pieces.
    — Ellise Pierce, star-telegram.com, 8 June 2017
  • Combine honeydew with cottage cheese and pecans to make the most of it.
    — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 31 May 2018
  • That will stop the ants from climbing the tree and harvesting the honeydew.
    — oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2022
  • For good measure the aphids poop honeydew, bringing on the ants.
    — C.d. Wright, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • This will kill the insects, which will also knock out the moldy honeydew.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Ripe honeydew will feel fairly smooth and firm on the surface with a slight bit of softness at the stem end.
    — Paul Stephen Paul’s Cooking Tips, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2021
  • Add 1 cup of the honeydew chunks and ½ cup of the grapes, stir, and set aside until the melon starts to release some juice, 5 to 10 minutes.
    — Adam Ried, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • Punctures weaken the plants, but most of the damage comes from the honeydew falling onto the leaves and fruit.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
  • At its peak, the flesh tastes sweeter than a honeydew and has a creamy texture with a light yellow hue.
    — Christian Reynoso, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The ants are harmless, but the honeydew will result in growth of sooty mold, an unattractive black fungus that will coat the leaves and stems.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • All cacao isn't the same size, but the fruits, the weight and the kind of mass is between a cantaloupe or a honeydew and a watermelon.
    — Téa Francesca Price, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2021
  • This salad is the best PR that honeydew could ever get.
    — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 21 June 2018
  • And if the vines survive, the grapes are tainted with the insect’s honeydew and can’t be used for winemaking.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The honeydew—a sweet, clear liquid the lanternflies excrete as waste—attracts ants, wasps, and bees, which like to eat it.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 June 2023
  • That's their honeydew or waste product coming out the back end ...
    — John Dodge, CBS News, 15 May 2024
  • The honeydew can promote fungus growth that damages or kills the plant.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The tiny pine tortoise scale, flocking by the millions on a single plant, sucks the trees’ lifeblood and coats its leaves and bark in a trickly honeydew.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Bees, however, lap up the honeydew and bring it back to their nest to process into honey.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Within a few days, honeydew draws a black fungus called sooty mold.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
  • Black sooty mold fungus grows in the honeydew substrate.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 1 July 2022
  • That’s sooty mold, a fungus that gets started in the sticky honeydew residue left behind by aphids and scale insects.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • According to Green, the best honeydew will have a white or creamy color, and should and feel tacky, kind of like a basketball.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3 June 2018
  • Some of the plant sap will be excreted as honeydew, which makes the plant, as well as things like lawn furniture under the plant, sticky.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • Slice up the honeydew and some fennel and introduce them to each other.
    — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 21 June 2018
  • This fresh-hop pale ale is fruit-forward with notes of honeydew and cantaloupe, along with some spice and a solid yeasty maltiness.
    — Andre Meunier, oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Even insects that suck plant sap are forced to excrete surplus sugars, in the form of liquids known as honeydew or lerp.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2021
  • The honeydew promotes the growth of mold, which can ruin produce and cover leaves, blocking out sunlight and killing plants.
    — Zach Montague, New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • The bug secretes honeydew that causes premature leaf drop in a number of plants and can attract swarms of bees.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2017
  • How to Choose a Ripe Melon The basic technique for choosing a ripe melon is the same for cantaloupe, honeydew, and muskmelon.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2024

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