Example Sentences

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They experimented internally with reducing the amount of cheese, mac and cheese’s costliest component, checking the effect on taste, texture, mouthfeel, cheesiness and “cling”—how the cheese sauce stuck to the noodles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

And indeed, the bacon is ideally cooked for a hint of crispiness among the soft, ever-so-slightly-wet egg infiltrated with creamy, salty, silky veins of orange-gold cheesiness.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

Longoria and her actors lean into the cheesiness, pun intended, but not without winking at us in flights of imagination that communicate a layer of calculated mischief.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2023

Probably a 7 on the 1 to 10 scale of cheesiness, wherein 10 is actual cheese.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022

Closeness or cheesiness are danger signals, warnings of lack of fermentation,—so is a slate-coloured interior.

From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William