How to Use cookie-cutter in a Sentence

cookie-cutter

1 of 2 adjective

• 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
• 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
• You were never meant to have a cookie-cutter life path, so get experimental.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Even after the 1,800-acre park was founded, the pace of growth persisted, bringing cookie-cutter suburbs, vast solar farms and nonnative plants that crowded out other species.
  — Alice Li, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Never terribly fond of risk, the industry in recent years has leaned even harder into cookie-cutter, action-heavy IP.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• These cookie-cutter roles are filled by Stanley Tucci and Lesley Manville, respectively, the only two actors who seem aware of the silliness around them and ham it up accordingly.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 28 Apr. 2023
• Williams Sonoma’s collaboration with Harry Potter brings fun and magic into the kitchen with this adorable cookie-cutter set.
  — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• But the researchers saw another more obvious, less natural distinction: all but one of the 49 whales surveyed sported bite marks from cookie-cutter sharks.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
• Not a single one of the Holy City’s best hotels follows a cookie-cutter pattern; each actively creates a distinct narrative and reason for being.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2024
• Instead of a cookie-cutter aesthetic replicated across the network, Amex continues to lean further into custom lounges that align with the cities they’re located in.
  — Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 14 Feb. 2024
• Excursions aren’t included, and were the weak spot on this sailing—perhaps because the ship wasn’t full, there were only a limited number of options to consider, and the choices tended to be a bit cookie-cutter.
  — Sarah Khan, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2023
• Cliffside, or clifftop, homes might be the perfect antidote to traditional cookie-cutter living.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2023
• It’s also been powerful evidence that films that aren’t formulaic sequels can succeed in a way that too many recent cookie-cutter franchise films have not.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
• The egregious mirrors and substandard sinks are daunting reminders of every cookie-cutter suburban home ever built.
  — Parker Bowie Larson, ELLE Decor, 16 May 2023

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cookie cutter

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The ears of a bunny cookie cutter can become petals for a flower.
  — Alana Allred, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Get out those old cookie cutters; many kids have never seen them.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
• Fans used the simple design as a cookie cutter and sewed it into quilts.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
• Using a 1¾-inch round cookie cutter, cut the dough into rounds.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2021
• Cut out with 2-inch round (plain or scalloped-edge) cookie cutter.
  — Nancy Stohs, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2019
• Use a 2-inch round cookie cutter to cut out cookies, and transfer them to cookie sheet, 1 inch apart.
  — WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• Cut shapes with 3-inch witch hat and bat cookie cutters; place half of each shape, 1/2-inch apart, on prepared baking sheet.
  — Tara Bench, Country Living, 6 Sep. 2019
• With holiday cookie cutters and a gold spoon, this gift box is ideal for the giftee who likes the idea of baking more than the process.
  — Anna Haines, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024