How to Use doughy in a Sentence

doughy

adjective

• High humidity can make your loaves turn out doughy.
• It puffs and crisps and the toppings seep and swoop through doughy canyons.
  — Bill Addison, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• Seafood spring rolls were doughy rather than crispy, and the crab and scallop stuffing bland.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• But the secret highlight on the menu is the peach cobbler, flaky and fresh instead of doughy.
  — Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 27 Sep. 2017
• But the dough balls are too doughy, and there’s not enough of the ice cream (which doesn’t seem to taste like buckwheat tea, at any rate).
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Empanadas are equally grand in scale, with thick bumpy braids, and more doughy than flaky.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• The name of the food is wang mandu, which roughly means doughy softball of goodness.
  — chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
• Kim Jong Un is a doughy man with an odd haircut and a cartoon villain’s face.
  — Jerry Brewer, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
• The food is a doughy lifeline between her and her lover, between her and the country of her parents.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• There’s a lot to love about the doughy confection, but — a JPMorgan Chase donut?
  — Megan Hess, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
• The pizza is not crispy at all, with a uniquely doughy, airy, pleasantly chewy and very tasty crust.
  — Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
• These doughy rolls are crusted with pecorino cheese and enough garlic to make any vampire on the block run away.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• The Bears offense is the doughy guy at the gym with the love handles, vowing to change but lacking the discipline to follow through.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• The piece de resistance was a golden popover served warm from the oven, crisp outside and doughy inside.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• On Mahila’s opening menu is a $12 dish of sardine puffs, doughy balls made with fish and tomatoes.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2019
• The restaurant offers thin crust and deep dish, but go with the pan pizza, which is perfectly crispy, doughy and cheesy all at once.
  — Joan Niesen and Laken Litman, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• In May 1994, Chris gave birth to their first child, a girl named Franki, and three years later, a doughy redheaded boy named Sam.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• The process of separating the four compartments left more of an impression than the flavor of the doughy dumpling.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
• Langley, who is 43 and has the doughy look of an aging skater, interrupts.
  — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
• That means doughy foods, like pizza, pasta and bagels, as well as sweets, are strictly off limits.
  — Samantha Cassetty, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019
• The fritters can be served in their own doughy goodness — or be stuffed with cod or another protein.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Cobblers are topped with doughy dumplings or biscuit batter.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2019
• Four hours later, the tops of the biscuits were nearly finished baking, but the bottoms remained doughy.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 19 July 2019
• In a Tuesday workout, Dawejko wasn’t so doughy — even svelte at about 230 — after months of training.
  — Don Steinberg, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• At Ácenar, the fried oyster taco has only the third thing to lean on, and the doughy breading wasn’t something to talk about, nor was the corn tortilla or thin, thready slaw ($13.95 with rice and beans).
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2017
• There was a decadent spread of Middle Eastern food (think spicy chicken skewers, and doughy bites of falafel) which paired well with a flute of Champagne.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 11 June 2018
• But then came jhol momos: tidily crimped, doughy dumplings swimming in a tomato-and-sesame broth spiced up with chiles and Nepalese hog plum powder (eight for $7).
  — Seth Kugel, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Warm and doughy homemade flatbread was served alongside in addition to a garnish of small cubes of raw beet and crushed walnuts.
  — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2018
• Mrs. Farzan guided Nerissa’s head under the faucet just inches away from the still doughy dishes.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• If the dumplings are still doughy, cover and continue cooking until finished.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Sep 2024