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
• Take this citrus salad first course, which spotlights the sweet navel oranges, Cara Cara oranges, ruby red grapefruit and mandarins arriving at the market right now.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024