How to Use honeydew in a Sentence

honeydew

noun

• To avoid the honeydew, the best thing is to prevent the insects in the first place.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 July 2024
• Slice the rind off of the honeydew melon and chop the flesh into 1/2-inch pieces.
  — Ellise Pierce, star-telegram.com, 8 June 2017
• Combine honeydew with cottage cheese and pecans to make the most of it.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 31 May 2018
• That will stop the ants from climbing the tree and harvesting the honeydew.
  — oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2022
• For good measure the aphids poop honeydew, bringing on the ants.
  — C.d. Wright, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• This will kill the insects, which will also knock out the moldy honeydew.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2024
• Look for a creamy yellow to white skin: A good honeydew is green on the inside, not on the outside.
  — Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
• Ripe honeydew will feel fairly smooth and firm on the surface with a slight bit of softness at the stem end.
  — Paul Stephen Paul’s Cooking Tips, San Antonio Express-News, 21 June 2021
• Add 1 cup of the honeydew chunks and ½ cup of the grapes, stir, and set aside until the melon starts to release some juice, 5 to 10 minutes.
  — Adam Ried, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
• Punctures weaken the plants, but most of the damage comes from the honeydew falling onto the leaves and fruit.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
• At its peak, the flesh tastes sweeter than a honeydew and has a creamy texture with a light yellow hue.
  — Christian Reynoso, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• The ants are harmless, but the honeydew will result in growth of sooty mold, an unattractive black fungus that will coat the leaves and stems.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• All cacao isn't the same size, but the fruits, the weight and the kind of mass is between a cantaloupe or a honeydew and a watermelon.
  — Téa Francesca Price, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2021
• This salad is the best PR that honeydew could ever get.
  — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 21 June 2018
• And if the vines survive, the grapes are tainted with the insect’s honeydew and can’t be used for winemaking.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• One cup of diced honeydew provides 388 mg (5% of the DV) of potassium.
  — Johna Burdeos, Health, 2 July 2024
• The honeydew—a sweet, clear liquid the lanternflies excrete as waste—attracts ants, wasps, and bees, which like to eat it.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 June 2023
• That's their honeydew or waste product coming out the back end ...
  — John Dodge, CBS News, 15 May 2024
• The honeydew can promote fungus growth that damages or kills the plant.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• The tiny pine tortoise scale, flocking by the millions on a single plant, sucks the trees’ lifeblood and coats its leaves and bark in a trickly honeydew.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
• Bees, however, lap up the honeydew and bring it back to their nest to process into honey.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Within a few days, honeydew draws a black fungus called sooty mold.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
• Black sooty mold fungus grows in the honeydew substrate.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 1 July 2022
• That’s sooty mold, a fungus that gets started in the sticky honeydew residue left behind by aphids and scale insects.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• According to Green, the best honeydew will have a white or creamy color, and should and feel tacky, kind of like a basketball.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3 June 2018
• Some of the plant sap will be excreted as honeydew, which makes the plant, as well as things like lawn furniture under the plant, sticky.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• Slice up the honeydew and some fennel and introduce them to each other.
  — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 21 June 2018
• This fresh-hop pale ale is fruit-forward with notes of honeydew and cantaloupe, along with some spice and a solid yeasty maltiness.
  — Andre Meunier, oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2019
• Even insects that suck plant sap are forced to excrete surplus sugars, in the form of liquids known as honeydew or lerp.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2021
• These aphids may also leave a sticky honeydew residue in their wake, which can develop sooty mold and make affected plants look like they’re coated in a fine, dark powder.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024