Example Sentences

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The work featured a stylish woman smooshing her face into bread — the conceit, apparently, that viewers who crave warm doughiness against their flesh will derive vicarious joy watching her.

From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2018

Maybe it stings a little more this time: Coogan is trim and toned, with a flattering haircut and no trace of the doughiness that, a few years back, seemed to be settling around his jaw.

From Time • Aug. 11, 2017

She had passed that stage in which a man regards his child with despair; she had passed out of slippery and evasive doughiness into a firm tangibility that made it some pleasure to hold her.

From A Modern Instance by Howells, William Dean

By twelve o'clock, from her benchlike throne that had become a straitjacket to the back, a heaviness had set in that seemed to thicken Miss Hoag's eyelids, the flush receding before doughiness.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie