How to Use lye in a Sentence

lye

noun

• He whose ball lyes farthest from the hole is obliged to play first.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
• Granny’s lard and lye soap could wash your clothes, hands, hair and anything else, and the recipe hasn’t changed much in a thousand years.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 20 Jan. 2021
• One baker rolled out the dough, made from cake flour, lye water, oil and golden syrup, then broke off pieces.
  — Momo Chang, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Aug. 2022
• The woman also told police she was forced to eat lye and was choked to the point of unconsciousness.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Green olives will need to be soaked in a lye solution before brining, while black olives can skip this step.
  — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2021
• Turns out that black women have to use lye and heat to straighten their hair and that’s not friendly at 1/6 gravity.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• Hominy is made from whole corn kernels, soaked in a lye or lime solution to soften the tough outer hulls.
  — Meredith Deeds Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
• The white oak floors were finished with a traditional soap and lye method, and walls are covered with three coats of plaster and two coats of wax.
  — Aileen Jacobson, New York Times, 6 May 2016
• The hacker briefly changed the levels of lye in the water to poisonous levels before an employee caught and stopped the hacker.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2022
• Like, laundry-soaked-in-lye-soap-and-beaten-over-river-rocks-and-cranked-through-a-wringer-daily-for-several-years worn down.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• That decision was made, in part, because the lye did not leave the company site, Langley said.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• The corn kernels are soaked in lye or lime solutions and then rinsed several times, which removes the hulls and turns the inner kernels tender and plump.
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 28 June 2021
• Inside the chemical reaction class, Claire Lee stirred a heated pot to combine a mixture of oils and lye.
  — Mike Glenn, Houston Chronicle, 17 June 2019
• Commonly known as lye, it is used to reduce the water’s acidity.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2021
• There’s a myth about never using soap in a cast iron skillet, which might have been true 100 years ago when soap had lye in it, but modern dish soap is just a degreaser.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Apr. 2018
• Maggie Vesey said soap is created by combining hard oils (like coconut oil) and soft oils with lye.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2021
• Born in 1897, in Texas, the story goes that, when Johnson was young, his stepmother threw lye in his face out of spite for his father’s infidelity.
  — Dr. Sandro Galea, Time, 22 June 2017
• The mornings will see flaky turnovers filled with apples and cherries and German-style croissants given a lye treatment like pretzels.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• In that one, which made headlines around the world, a hacker also gained access to a TeamViewer account and raised the levels of lye in the drinking water to poisonous levels.
  — NBC News, 17 June 2021
• Soap is made from lye and plant fats, ingredients that can damage your silk, leave behind residue, or remove one of silk's best features—its sheen.
  — Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2021
• Last year, a hacker broke into the network of a water-treatment plant in Oldsmar, Fla., and changed a setting to increase the amount of lye in the water to a dangerous level.
  — Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• In a similar fashion to the candles, the ingredients are melted together — oils, butters and lye — to make the soap.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2022
• The book, which was awarded a gold medal by the Swiss Gourmet book awards, contains recipes for lye breads (like pretzels), baguettes, Zopf and challah, including vegan challah.
  — Rachel Ringler, sun-sentinel.com, 23 June 2021
• These products contain lye, a chemical that seems to magically undo the curl of hair.
  — Jessica Firger, Newsweek, 23 Feb. 2017
• Now imagine ditching all those familiar little tubes and bottles and replacing them with one small bar of lye soap.
  — Catherine Womack, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 May 2018
• This process, which involves using lye and heat to break bodies down to their constituent elements—amino acids, peptides, sugars, and salts—is legal in more than a dozen states.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
• Soap, Ryan explained, consists of water, fat, and lye (or sodium hydroxide).
  — Jacoba Urist, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• Sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda or lye, is one of the chemicals to be stored at the location.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022
• Cooks for generations didn't use soap on cast iron pans because the soaps were made with lye and vinegar, two ingredients that will absolutely strip seasoning and can even damange the pan's iron.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 12 Nov. 2023
• The shop uses a mix of sourdough and traditional yeast leavening and boils the bagels in a lye solution, like pretzels, albeit slightly more diluted.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024