How to Use mandarin in a Sentence

mandarin

noun
  • New York has been late and slow in embracing the now 87-year-old mandarin.
    Curbed, 10 Nov. 2022
  • So to shore up their base, Bush and the GOP mandarins gave over large swaths of the party platform to the hard-liners.
    David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
  • One of the latest fragrances by perfumer Julien Rasquinet is a unique blend of damask rose, saffron, and mandarin.
    Vanities, 6 July 2017
  • Here are two kid-friendly recipes that make use of mandarins in both sweet and savory dishes.
    Tara Massouleh, AL.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Chou instead takes a cue from the seasons, which means strawberries in the summer and mandarins right now.
    Rachel Karten, Bon Appétit, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Gently squeeze a little mandarin juice over the plated greens.
    Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Pull down a few branches to use as a table runner and place a single mandarin on each plate as a place setting.
    Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Elvira, who asked to only use her first name, is 27 and has been working in the fields growing mandarins and citrus fruit for four years.
    Laura Molinari, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Versace’s Eros opens with fresh and citrusy notes of Italian lemon and mandarin and mint and candied apple.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • His mandarins started to ripen early, but are still coming in with good flavor.
    Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Orange, lemon and mandarin trees that continue to bear fruit all these decades later.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
  • But then came the mandarin duck, a rare species that likely escaped from a home zoo and made its way to Central Park, capturing hearts and minds—first of the city, then the nation.
    The Editors, Marie Claire, 31 Dec. 2018
  • This is the mandarin mind-set that has prevailed in the nations of Europe for nearly 70 years and in the European Commission for 25.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
  • The fare includes more than 40 teas, sandwiches such as slow-braised beef short rib, scones and pastries such as chocolate and mandarin eclairs.
    Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 13 May 2018
  • The scent blends its star, vanilla, with notes of bergamot, mandarin, neroli, and jasmine sambac, rounding it out with base notes of cedarwood and musk.
    Taylore Glynn, Marie Claire, 3 Dec. 2019
  • My aunt lives there and one of my favorite activities in the fall is picking mandarins from her mandarin trees.
    Jae-Ha Kim, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • Green mandarin and sage lend a subtle scent that makes an impression —and the bottle is refillable.
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Would the palace mandarins have made analyses of her fertility?
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
  • The smoke from nearby wildfires fills the sky, obscuring the sun and speckling his mandarin trees with delicate ash.
    Dan Merica, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Flavors include fresh grapefruit segments, some mandarin mid palate and slight caramel in the finish.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • These little Kishu mandarins—they’re one of my favorite things that come to the market every year, just these tiny little perfect fruits.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2020
  • In Japan, during Lunar New Year, the mandarin is often put on top of a mirror rice cake (kagami mochi)—made of two round rice cakes stacked on top of each other.
    TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • An old man, a mandarin of the ancien regime, Mr Essebsi was an odd fit for the presidency of a young and newly-free country.
    The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • The Italian mandarin is blended with other citrus tones like bergamot and neroli.
    Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Its residents grow mandarins in the hills outside town and a food processing plant makes packaged snacks.
    Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The new floral fragrance features notes of orange blossom, mandarin and neroli.
    Atlanta Life, ajc, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Made with ingredients like mandarin rinds and cedar atlas, the duo has refreshing and musky scents of citrus and wood.
    Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Polge funneled the spirit of lively resorts and crashing waves into the fragrance, which has notes of grapefruit, mandarin, and lily-of-the-valley.
    Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 10 May 2018
  • The kitchen produces one of the best salads with winter citrus ($15), with slices and chunks of cara cara, kumquat, oro blanco and mandarin, plus colorful leaves of radicchio.
    Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The bon bon-like rounds of liver are coated in a mandarin gelee, accented with coconut cream and a scattering of winter cress.
    Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018

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