How to Use cookie-cutter in a Sentence

cookie-cutter

1 of 2 adjective
  • And in a world of cookie-cutter brands, that's something worth keeping an eye on.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • In a world of cookie-cutter pop-music stars and automatons, Sinéad O’Connor was a one-off.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Respect Your Roots The hottest hotels are a far cry from cookie-cutter, so shouldn’t your bedroom have a one-of-a-kind look, too?
    Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Gone are the days of cookie-cutter gowns with predictable lace trim and mermaid silhouettes.
    Kedean Smith, Essence, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Enter Valentine’s Day, a generic, cookie-cutter rip-off filled to the brim with A-list stars and Oscar winners.
    Janey Tracey, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2024
  • As one of the easiest shapes to cut, hearts deserve a place in your cookie-cutter (or cake-pan) catalog all year long—not just on Valentine's Day.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2024
  • It was erected in an era when many other cities had built round, cookie-cutter stadiums.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The death of the cookie-cutter office space has also led companies to bring employees into the design process.
    Anna Kramer, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Together, the ample snow and glades make for an experience that feels more like a day spent off-piste than one spent at a cookie-cutter resort.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The Guides The guides that Adams & Butler relies on to lead clients on its excursions aren’t just your cookie-cutter tour guides who give you a standard experience.
    Shivani Vora, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • You were never meant to have a cookie-cutter life path, so get experimental.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Black women face unique financial challenges — from the pay gap to student loan debt — and cookie-cutter solutions just won’t cut it.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Instead of cookie-cutter homes, Blanchard said 60% of people now look to have their homes customized by a designer, such as those at Clear Fortress.
    Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The flex plan, Dewberry acknowledged, can never be quite as easy or straightforward as the old, cookie-cutter 12-hour shifts.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Despite the scale, there’s an amazing lack of cookie-cutter repetition or of areas that feel generic or padded out.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The seal, a female, was dehydrated and suffering from more than 10 cookie-cutter shark bites.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
  • True crime is a crowded genre with so many cookie-cutter stories exploiting tragedies for voyeuristic films and series.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Situated on one of the most idyllic and picturesque coves, the low-slung resort is a super luxe antidote to cookie-cutter sprawl.
    Sunset Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
  • For Floridians like me—those of us who grew up in slightly soulless, cookie-cutter complexes—Palm Beach has always felt like a bit of a paradox.
    Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Removable wallpaper To make a dorm room look less cookie-cutter, try peel-and-stick wallpaper.
    Lisa Lombardi, wsj.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Dark Chocolate Cookies & Cream: There’s nothing cookie-cutter about this new dark chocolate ice cream made with dark chocolate cookie pieces and flecks of cream filling.
    Tracy Yochum, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
  • Organizations are made up of people, after all, and people need more than a cookie-cutter course once a year to make real and lasting change.
    Susan Callender, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Against all odds, that gimmick works, distinguishing the project from so many other cookie-cutter pop-star hagiographies.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Today, the neighborhood is mostly a mix of office towers that jut up from a sea of cookie-cutter, low-slung office buildings served by acres of surface parking lots.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • However, don’t expect a cookie-cutter design across Chase’s network of lounges.
    Chris Dong, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And though that probably means that people won’t be able to buy perfect cookie-cutter Christmas trees for at least another decade, there’s still something to be said about the hunt that exists today.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Every surgeon has evolved their own technique, but one thing that remains is an understanding that there may not be a single cookie-cutter technique for the perfect facelift.
    Meirav Devash, Allure, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The world looked at the Cimarron and saw an overpriced Cavalier, more so as the years wore on, and GM was later pilloried for making cookie-cutter cars with barely discernible brand-to-brand differences.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The blessing is that Buckley, Colman, Spall and Vasan are expert enough that dimensional character work still peeks through the vibe of cookie-cutter idiosyncrasy.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The cookie-cutter development of more than 700 single-family homes and townhouses is miles from any town; the only nearby amenity to speak of is an Exxon station.
    Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
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cookie cutter

2 of 2 noun
  • Complete your cutthroat kitchen with a set of Halloween cookie cutters, perfect for whipping up sweets and serving up ghosts, pumpkins, and bats.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2024
  • Cut out shapes with cookie cutters and poke a hole in the top with a straw.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Use a cookie cutter or a sharp knife to cut shapes out of the dough sheet.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • Stamped means the knife blades were punched cookie cutter-like out of a sheet of steel.
    Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Use a 6-inch round cookie cutter to cut out eight rounds.
    Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 4 July 2023
  • The yield will vary depending on the size and shape of your cookie cutter.
    Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
  • What better way to learn about the world than through its cookie cutters?
    Priya Krishna, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Form the holes with a small cookie cutter or piping tip.
    Kimberly Stoney, Parents, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Step 2 Use small round cookie cutter to cut out petals.
    The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Lightly toast the bread slices then, using a cookie cutter or the top of a jar, stamp out 1½-inch bread rounds.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Cut eight circles from the slices using a 3-inch round cookie cutter (or the rim of a glass or food can).
    Kirsten Dixon, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2011
  • Using a 1-inch round cookie cutter, cut a hole in the center of half the cookies.
    Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Lightly toast the bread slices then, using a cookie cutter or the top of a jar, stamp out 1-and-1/2-inch bread rounds.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Cut the dough into squares with a knife or use a festive cookie cutter to make shapes.
    Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Using a cookie cutter or the tip of a sharp knife, cut out 6 (5-inch) hearts, and place on a rimmed baking sheet.
    Jessica Fecteau, PEOPLE.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • These are no cookie cutter copies of ISS, or even of each other.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2019
  • Use a 3-inch cookie cutter or small glass to cut a hole in the center of each slice of bread; reserve the cutouts, if desired.
    Ellie Krieger, charlotteobserver, 12 June 2018
  • Using a 3-inch cookie cutter press out circles in the dough.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Using a round cookie cutter or drinking glass, cut a 2 1/2- to 3-in.
    Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Using a small star cookie cutter, cut stars from the top of the slab pie to create a festive design, and place the cutout stars on top of the pie.
    Dallas News, 24 June 2020
  • Cut dough either with a knife or break out fun cookie cutters.
    Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Use a pineapple cookie cutter and some polymer clay to shape this adorable ring dish.
    Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 11 Nov. 2022
  • My sisters haul baking sheets, bags of flour, cookie cutters and tins from their house to mine.
    Jeanmarie Brownson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • On a night of knocking on at least a dozen doors, the faces behind them were anything but cookie cutter.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 July 2019
  • Press the mixture into ring molds or large cookie cutters to form the patties.
    Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • With cookie cutter, cut 5 or 6 stars from rest of pastry.
    Woman's Day, 2 Jan. 2012
  • The ears of a bunny cookie cutter can become petals for a flower.
    Alana Allred, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Use a 4-inch biscuit or cookie cutter to cut out four circles from the sheet of puff pastry.
    The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 5 Jan. 2016
  • The odd wounds are the hallmark of a small attacker with a ferocious bite: the cookie cutter shark.
    Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
  • He also was not stamped out of a cookie cutter, the birthplace of many of today’s play-by-play voices.
    Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2024

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