pulp
noun
the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
pulps
-
present tense formof pulp (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Although similar imagery would grace the covers of salacious pulp magazines after World War I, there was a difference between Picou’s era and that of the pulps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Lee, being Lee, believes otherwise, spurred on by his discovery of pages of purple prose that Dale hid inside his Jim Thompson crime pulps.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
It was Fairbanks who first turned this creature of the pulps into a towering legend.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020
Specifically, in pulps like “Black Mask,” where he honed and refined his detective character Philip Marlowe in stories that boiled hard and talked tough.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2020
The mixture of these "pulps" is run through a grating or coarse sieve on to a drying-kiln or "bed," where it is allowed to stand until stiff enough to walk on.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
