gooeyness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Touch plays its part too, binding tastes and smells together and fixing our preferences for runny or firm eggs, and the velvety, luxuriousness gooeyness of chocolate.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026
"The gooeyness develops when you break open the cooked potato cells and literally beat the starch out of them," McGee wrote in 2008, in response to a New York Times reader inquiry.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
Hot gooeyness atop a pleasingly shaped, light-and-crispy bread-torpedo — many happy latchkey moments were made of this; just add a glass of cold milk and some reruns.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
The magisterial gooeyness of Scott’s vision feels like a fascinating response, and maybe even a corrective, to the more sanitized visions of outer space that preceded it, courtesy of Lucas and even Stanley Kubrick.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2020
When, unluckily, they were allowed to get cold, they tended to a gooeyness, not unlike a wad of tired gum.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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