How to Use pulp in a Sentence
- I like to strain the pulp out of my orange juice.
- The fruit has sweet, juicy pulp and hard, black seeds.
- The grain was mashed into pulp.
- The boxes will be turned back into pulp and be made into newspapers.
- This paper is made from inexpensive wood pulp.
- He made a little extra money by writing stories for a science fiction pulp.
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There was not much pulp around the stone but the flavor was sharp and rich.
— Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023 -
Use a fig, cut it in half, and remove the fleshy pulp and seeds.
— Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024 -
His skin toughened against the acidic pulp that the plant spat when cleaved.
— Tucker Harris, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024 -
Leftover Peach Pulp The pulp that's left in the sieve at the end of step 2 is too tasty to toss.
— Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 16 July 2023 -
Cut a hole in the bottom of a large pumpkin, and scoop out pulp and seeds.
— Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022 -
Cut out around tracing, then scoop out the pulp and seeds.
— Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022 -
Use the large holes of a box grater to scrape pulp and liquid from cobs and add to the kernels.
— Paige Grandjean, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2023 -
Use your fingers or a fork to gently remove the seeds from the stringy pulp.
— Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Cut a hole in the bottom of a medium-size blue Hubbard squash; scoop out the pulp and seeds.
— Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2022 -
This is a book rooted less in pulp than in Afro-pessimism.
— Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The remaining tomato pulp is cut into cubes and added to the sauce.
— Tribune News Service, cleveland, 25 July 2022 -
Over the course of three hours, a steady crowd of about 20 people looked on as heaps of orange pulp formed at his feet.
— Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023 -
The juice trickles into a big stainless steel bin, and the pulp goes back to the farm to be composted.
— Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022 -
Use your fingers to gently remove the seeds from the stringy pulp and place them in a colander.
— Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Oct. 2023 -
That track, along with four others, rounds out the band's fourth EP pulp, which comes out Friday.
— Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 4 Feb. 2022 -
The hollowed out pulp can be used in salads, salsas, etc.
— Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Rinse the seeds in water using a colander until the pulp and strings wash off; drain.
— Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Oct. 2023 -
If desired, strain juice through fine-mesh sieve to remove any pulp.
— Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022 -
The Tongass has been the heart of the logging industry in Alaska for decades, starting in the 1950s with the arrival of pulp mills.
— Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2022 -
Meanwhile, solana, which had been beaten to a pulp this year, rallied a whopping 28.7% in the past week.
— Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 22 June 2022 -
And it’s all rendered in a gorgeous art style that makes the show feel like a classic pulp comic brought to life.
— Andrew Webster, The Verge, 23 Nov. 2023 -
Gently pour out the water along with tomato pulp and any seeds that float.
— Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2023 -
The colors of sliced watermelon – with red pulp, green-white rind, and black seeds – are the same as those on the Palestinian flag.
— Anna Furman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2024 -
Wooden teeth would have filled Washington’s maw full of rotting pulp.
— Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
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After the wood is pulped, it’s turned into a fiber that is then spun into a yarn.
— Anh-Minh Le, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018 -
Some of his trees have outgrown nearby saw mills and will have to be pulped for lower prices.
— Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018 -
Word was, he had been ordered, at the last minute, to pulp the first run of booklets and to rush out new versions, stripped of cost calculations.
— William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018 -
Pulping wood turned out to be not all that different from refining oil.
— Christopher Leonard, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017 -
Pieces of timber too small to process as logs—including offcuts and thinnings from the forest—are chipped and pulped to make paper.
— The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019 -
Approximately 70 million tons of this stuff is pulped every year, but most of it is burned for fuel.
— Troy Farah, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020 -
In some areas, there is hardly any margin for the imperfect pines that are pulped for paper and particleboard.
— Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018 -
In Sumatra and Borneo, forests have been pulped to make way for palm oil plantations, with devastating consequences for orangutans.
— Natalie Angier, New York Times, 6 June 2016 -
If the asteroid is large enough, the overpressure would effectively pulp victims' insides.
— Jasper Hamill, Fox News, 28 June 2018 -
Southern yellow pine, which is sawed into lumber and pulped into paper and particle board, is one of the region’s top agricultural products.
— Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2018 -
But tons and tons of books are discarded globally each year, either pulped by publishers, shredded by libraries or tossed out when people empty old houses.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018 -
In the second half of the century, entire libraries were transferred to microform, spun on microfilm reels, or served on tiny microfiche platters, while the crumbling originals were thrown away or pulped.
— Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018 -
The standard method for recycling cotton involves mechanically pulping it to break it down into raw material that can be reused.
— Marc Bain, Quartzy, 16 Aug. 2019 -
His analysis of Trump’s victory is a useful corrective to accounts blaming racists, sexists and plutocrats to the exclusion of millions who simply wanted to blow up the giant dream-pulping machine of American politics.
— Trygve Throntveit, Washington Post, 14 June 2019 -
After the wood is pulped, it’s turned into a fiber that is then spun into a yarn.
— Anh-Minh Le, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018 -
Some of his trees have outgrown nearby saw mills and will have to be pulped for lower prices.
— Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018 -
Word was, he had been ordered, at the last minute, to pulp the first run of booklets and to rush out new versions, stripped of cost calculations.
— William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018 -
Pulping wood turned out to be not all that different from refining oil.
— Christopher Leonard, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017 -
Pieces of timber too small to process as logs—including offcuts and thinnings from the forest—are chipped and pulped to make paper.
— The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019 -
Approximately 70 million tons of this stuff is pulped every year, but most of it is burned for fuel.
— Troy Farah, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2020 -
In some areas, there is hardly any margin for the imperfect pines that are pulped for paper and particleboard.
— Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018 -
In Sumatra and Borneo, forests have been pulped to make way for palm oil plantations, with devastating consequences for orangutans.
— Natalie Angier, New York Times, 6 June 2016 -
If the asteroid is large enough, the overpressure would effectively pulp victims' insides.
— Jasper Hamill, Fox News, 28 June 2018 -
Southern yellow pine, which is sawed into lumber and pulped into paper and particle board, is one of the region’s top agricultural products.
— Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2018 -
But tons and tons of books are discarded globally each year, either pulped by publishers, shredded by libraries or tossed out when people empty old houses.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018 -
In the second half of the century, entire libraries were transferred to microform, spun on microfilm reels, or served on tiny microfiche platters, while the crumbling originals were thrown away or pulped.
— Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018 -
The standard method for recycling cotton involves mechanically pulping it to break it down into raw material that can be reused.
— Marc Bain, Quartzy, 16 Aug. 2019 -
His analysis of Trump’s victory is a useful corrective to accounts blaming racists, sexists and plutocrats to the exclusion of millions who simply wanted to blow up the giant dream-pulping machine of American politics.
— Trygve Throntveit, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
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