sirupy
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He ate spaghetti with Italians, drank tea with Chinese, sipped sirupy coffee with Syrians.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rest comes out as a waste sulphite liquor,* a sirupy fluid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cream flowed in upon us like a river; potatoes were stewed in it; it was the base of chicken-sauce; the sirupy baked pears, whose secret Mrs. Sisson had inherited from some dim religious ancestor in the New-England past, were drowned in it; and we took a glass of it with magical shiny rusk for nine-o'clock supper, just to oil our joints before we relaxed them in innocent repose.
From Project Gutenberg
But though hundreds were lured to their death by sirupy drowning, the attacking host remained undiminished, and the death-traps only succeeded in adding disgusting odors to the already laden atmosphere.
From Project Gutenberg
Betty says he likes the sirupy taste.
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