jelly doughnut
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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While it's true that berliner is a word for jelly doughnut, it wasn't the preferred term in Berlin and the surrounding area at the time.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2022
Honestly, that doughnut that we had with Seth, I’ve never had a hot jelly doughnut in my life, and I was genuinely perplexed as to why I’d never had that before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2019
When he appeared on “Late Show With David Letterman” in 2013, he pulled a jelly doughnut out of his coat pocket and took a bite.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2019
The Hop and Hound will do a chocolate doughnut with coffee stout, French cruller with sour beer and a raspberry jelly doughnut with strawberry wheat beer.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2018
When you cut into a normal spleen with a scalpel, it gives about as much resistance to the knife as a jelly doughnut, and it drips a lot of blood.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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