Example Sentences

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“They just seem like the perfect tomato,” she says — clean-slicing, super-juicy, delicious and deep without a hint of mealiness.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2023

As to texture, Schonberger says that mealiness is more likely “a result of growing conditions and plant stress,” with some varieties more inclined to be mealy than others.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2022

My efforts paid off, however:  I hit just the right balance between rawhide toughness and too-moist mealiness.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2011

The catalog affects pained astonishment that the Western press should adopt the "quite ridiculous" habit of calling a theft a theft, but that's what it was, and no mealiness of the mouth can change it.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Hegh, hegh, Miss! you'll make yourself giddy, an' tumble down i' the dirt," said Luke, the head miller, a tall, broad-shouldered man of forty, black-eyed and black-haired, subdued by a general mealiness, like an auricula.

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George