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
On its first appearance the turpentine is of a sirupy consistence, and is quite transparent; gradually it becomes more opaque, and of a yellowish-white color.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
It was a thick liqueur, sirupy like anisette, but even sweeter and more feminine, only, when one had swallowed this inert semi-liquid, there lingered in the roots of the papillæ a faint taste of celery.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
Great quantities of the soap used by the scrubwomen in scrubbing down the floors was boiled with water until a sirupy mess was evolved.
From The Runaway Skyscraper by Leinster, Murray
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