wafer
noun
a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
waferlike
-
a word derived from
wafer.
Example Sentences
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While you could crush up smooth, waferlike rice crackers for this, the shrimp cakes won’t be quite as airy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
But Mason’s characters, too, are uncompelling compared to his plot, the waferlike concoctions of technothriller convenience, their superpowers perfunctorily deepened with a side serving of regret.
From Slate ● May 25, 2017
Adventures in a Sinister Wonderland “Eat,” the White Queen barks, as you wonder what to do with the waferlike snack she has handed you.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2013
"Normally I am fathomless compared to the thin, waferlike quality of my improfundity as I flickered to the floor after that dreadful pressure was removed."
From Half-Hours with the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs
It is delightful," he said again, when they were once more alone and he had accepted a well-creamed cup and a waferlike tartine; "and I feel as if I had turned back several years.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson
