soft serve
noun
variants
or soft-serve
: a smooth semisolid ice cream that contains less milk fat than regular ice cream and is made in and dispensed from a freezer in which it is aerated and continuously churned
—often used before another noun
soft-serve ice cream
a soft-serve machine
Examples of soft serve in a Sentence
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There is also the debut of a new, gourmet soft-serve ice cream.
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David Moin, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
This is road trip country, with stops to pick up hot bread and herbal tea made curbside, soft-serve from the ice cream vans that line major routes, and headdresses made from fresh herbs and flowers, typically worn around Rijal Alma’a.
—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024
Blake's doughnut sundae features three cider donuts topped with creamy soft-serve ice cream.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
Get your whole churros with soft-serve and dulce de leche.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
One day, Castro took us to a school with a new soft-serve ice cream machine.
—Kathie Berlin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
Diners will be able to sample hearty dishes like pork coppa with sauerkraut and finish the meal with profiteroles with soft-serve in flavors like honeycomb and pistachio.
—Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2024
This charming machine brings the old-fashioned joy of soft-serve ice cream right into your home.
—Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
And that's when the fight over ice cream began to really heat up, as David Pogue reports:
A fix for McDonald's soft-serve machines?
—David Morgan, CBS News, 21 July 2024
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David Moin, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
This is road trip country, with stops to pick up hot bread and herbal tea made curbside, soft-serve from the ice cream vans that line major routes, and headdresses made from fresh herbs and flowers, typically worn around Rijal Alma’a.
—Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024
Blake's doughnut sundae features three cider donuts topped with creamy soft-serve ice cream.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
Get your whole churros with soft-serve and dulce de leche.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
One day, Castro took us to a school with a new soft-serve ice cream machine.
—Kathie Berlin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
Diners will be able to sample hearty dishes like pork coppa with sauerkraut and finish the meal with profiteroles with soft-serve in flavors like honeycomb and pistachio.
—Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2024
This charming machine brings the old-fashioned joy of soft-serve ice cream right into your home.
—Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
And that's when the fight over ice cream began to really heat up, as David Pogue reports:
A fix for McDonald's soft-serve machines?
—David Morgan, CBS News, 21 July 2024
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“Soft serve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soft%20serve. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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