How to Use ingredient in a Sentence

ingredient

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  • The show has all the ingredients needed to attract a large audience.
  • Honesty is an essential ingredient of a successful marriage.
  • But the best shops set themselves apart with fresh ingredients and old-school charm.
    — Yaniya Lee, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Wide mouth canning jars are easiest to fill with solid ingredients like eggs and beets.
    — Kate Ramos, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Even finding details about product ingredients and news about product recalls currently requires a little effort on the part of consumers.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 9 May 2024
  • True to its low-impact quintessence, the culinary program takes a farm-to-table approach emphasizing fresh, local ingredients.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024
  • Even better, the vegan and non-comedogenic formula is infused with skincare ingredient niacinamide to improve the skin's texture.
    — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
  • When an ingredient supplier has a salmonella or listeria problem, that ripples to all the supplier’s customers and to that customer’s customers and so on.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
  • Thanks to maracuja passion fruit extract sourced from the Amazon, a hydrating ingredient the brand is known for, the product had the nourishing consistency of an eye cream.
    — Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 31 July 2024
  • Rooms and suites with lots of tropical touches offer garden, mountain, or ocean views, and the hotel’s restaurants serve dishes made with sustainably sourced ingredients from local vendors.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Most organic materials can be composted in an indoor or outdoor compost bin as long as those composting ingredients are kept moist, aerated, and given enough time to break down.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The Dukes Martini was assembled tableside—the ingredients presented on a foldout stand—by a young server skilled in the pouring arts.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The warmth of the drink alone can help open up nasal passages and soothe sore throats, while the ingredients in the mix each step in to work their own magic.
    — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Make the dressing by combining all the ingredients in a bowl with a whisk or a hand blender.
    — Gisela Williams, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • For a party game, make guests guess the crust's main ingredient.
    — Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2024
  • Check the ingredient lists to know exactly what is in your foods.
    — Jenna Birch, Health, 22 Mar. 2024
  • End of carousel 2 Check your ingredient supplies This tip goes hand-in-hand with reading the recipe.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The process had taken less than half an hour, and the ingredients had cost about a hundred dollars.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
  • Chris and food editor Shilpa Uskokovic make the case for recipes that are based on a tight edit of pantry ingredients.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 29 June 2023
  • The spice is one of the world’s most elusive, complex and hard to cultivate ingredients.
    — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • As the ingredients suggest, FrankieLynn is doing a lot more than boiling hot dogs and selling them on the street.
    — Alex Darus, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But the allure of the perfumes goes far beyond the expense of the ingredients and packaging.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Packed in this tube are nourishing ingredients like squalane and shea butter to serve as a balm.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Just pour in your spirit of choice and wait a week for the ingredients to steep into an aromatic liqueur.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The secret lies in the ingredients, which work almost like skincare.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Pour a glass of white wine, hop in the bath, and soak in these skin-brightening ingredients for a fresher complexion.
    — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 6 July 2023
  • Some skin care ingredients get a lot of buzz for their novelty—we’re looking at you, snail mucin.
    — Melanie Rud, SELF, 24 Oct. 2023
  • With the arrival of Christmas Eve inevitably comes the last-minute rush for gifts and ingredients for holiday meals.
    — CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Still, certain ingredients can help, with retinoids being among the best.
    — Deanna Pai, Allure, 12 June 2024
  • Novo Nordisk has also shown that semaglutide, the ingredient in both Wegovy and Ozempic, can cut the risk of kidney disease complications.
    — Mustafa Fattah, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024

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