Example Sentences

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Sour cream and cheese to add tang; pinto beans and red salsa for heartiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

It’s the kind of seasonal shift that makes you realize: I need vegetables that can stand up to winter, that won’t get lost under all this heartiness.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

First, mixing regular whole-wheat flour with a more tender variety yields just the right texture, soft and cakelike, with a satisfying heartiness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2022

For all its simplistic heartiness, “What Men Want” has one big idea, which comes late and is casually tossed off: What burdens and obligations come with learning hidden truths?

From The New Yorker • Feb. 7, 2019

Her men-friends would assume a sort of forced heartiness, and ask me jocular questions about history or painting, guessing I had not long left school and that this would be my only form of conversation.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier